A Degree Account of Exclamatives
... The proposal is this: for the utterance of an exclamation to be expressively correct, its content must be salient, and the speaker must find this content surprising. For the utterance of an exclamative to be expressively correct, its content must additionally be about a degree, and that degree must ...
... The proposal is this: for the utterance of an exclamation to be expressively correct, its content must be salient, and the speaker must find this content surprising. For the utterance of an exclamative to be expressively correct, its content must additionally be about a degree, and that degree must ...
Some Standard Features of AAVE
... words, to look at the practices of style shifting and code switching in speaking and writing, and to discuss historic and continuing linguistic discrimination and power. Although we did a lot of important work, I realized during the unit and after that simply knowing that all varieties and language ...
... words, to look at the practices of style shifting and code switching in speaking and writing, and to discuss historic and continuing linguistic discrimination and power. Although we did a lot of important work, I realized during the unit and after that simply knowing that all varieties and language ...
Optimality in Sentence Processing
... in the latter case, we adopt the constraint in violable form. We motivate the constraints we adopt by presenting in (3) − (6) below: (a) a numeric influence on preferences in the CA model, and its motivation, and (b) the corresponding grammatical (violable) constraint that we adopt. Note that the nu ...
... in the latter case, we adopt the constraint in violable form. We motivate the constraints we adopt by presenting in (3) − (6) below: (a) a numeric influence on preferences in the CA model, and its motivation, and (b) the corresponding grammatical (violable) constraint that we adopt. Note that the nu ...
Tableau-based decision procedure for the full
... our earlier work on tableaux for the full coalitional multiagent (purely) epistemic logic CMAEL(CD) [6]. In the present paper, we report on the second, and final, part of the project undertaken with the publication of [5]; namely, we present a sound, complete, and terminating incremental tableau for ...
... our earlier work on tableaux for the full coalitional multiagent (purely) epistemic logic CMAEL(CD) [6]. In the present paper, we report on the second, and final, part of the project undertaken with the publication of [5]; namely, we present a sound, complete, and terminating incremental tableau for ...
Presuppositions of Compound Sentences
... Of course, it may be that the trouble does not arise from our notion of presupposition but from the ordinary language sense of possible. However, it is significant that modal contexts which involve entailments justify only the weaker type of inference. From "Fred may be married", one can only conclu ...
... Of course, it may be that the trouble does not arise from our notion of presupposition but from the ordinary language sense of possible. However, it is significant that modal contexts which involve entailments justify only the weaker type of inference. From "Fred may be married", one can only conclu ...
Modes of Scalar Reversal in Japanese
... First, I argue that the implicatures induced by kaette and yoppodo are conventional and have a generic meaning (Carlson 1982; Krifka et al. 1995, among many others). That is, the ‘at issue’ proposition in (1) is true only in a specific (context-dependent) situation. Second, I argue that there are tw ...
... First, I argue that the implicatures induced by kaette and yoppodo are conventional and have a generic meaning (Carlson 1982; Krifka et al. 1995, among many others). That is, the ‘at issue’ proposition in (1) is true only in a specific (context-dependent) situation. Second, I argue that there are tw ...
as a PDF
... Error Diagnosis in the FreeText Project sentence in the exercise database. Then, the system extracts a deep “semantic” structure for the tutor’s and learners’ sentences, compares them with each other, and provides feedback. This technique can be used with active/passive or declarative/interrogative ...
... Error Diagnosis in the FreeText Project sentence in the exercise database. Then, the system extracts a deep “semantic” structure for the tutor’s and learners’ sentences, compares them with each other, and provides feedback. This technique can be used with active/passive or declarative/interrogative ...
Towards a Rich Dependency Annotation of Spanish Corpora
... dependency trees where the nodes are labelled by an open or closed class lexeme and the arcs by a grammatical function relation of the type subject, oblique_objecti, adverbial, modifier, etc. DMorphSs are chains of lexemes in their base form (with inflectional and POS features being associated to th ...
... dependency trees where the nodes are labelled by an open or closed class lexeme and the arcs by a grammatical function relation of the type subject, oblique_objecti, adverbial, modifier, etc. DMorphSs are chains of lexemes in their base form (with inflectional and POS features being associated to th ...
On the Use and Meaning of Prepositions Clearly
... hierarchical phrase structure rules and cognitive categories corresponding to prepositional and noun phrases when he gives free associations and when he makes judgments about meaning. ...
... hierarchical phrase structure rules and cognitive categories corresponding to prepositional and noun phrases when he gives free associations and when he makes judgments about meaning. ...
Backshift and Tense Decomposition
... decide or remember, create similar contexts. The phenomenon is also known as transposition, sequence of tenses or consecutio temporum, although some authors use some of these expressions in a broader sense, encompassing constraints on the co-occurrence of tenses in the same sentence. We reserve the ...
... decide or remember, create similar contexts. The phenomenon is also known as transposition, sequence of tenses or consecutio temporum, although some authors use some of these expressions in a broader sense, encompassing constraints on the co-occurrence of tenses in the same sentence. We reserve the ...
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... easy- to-understand language. Students are then challenged to apply what they are learning through practice pages. Next comes a review, followed by a quick and easy- to-score quiz. Occasionally, you may want to add an extra exercise or practice test depending on students’ progress, but the units are ...
... easy- to-understand language. Students are then challenged to apply what they are learning through practice pages. Next comes a review, followed by a quick and easy- to-score quiz. Occasionally, you may want to add an extra exercise or practice test depending on students’ progress, but the units are ...
The Language of Yoda
... We can see same negation pattern, putting the verb before the subject and front things, same as Yoda do in his language. All this was normal in old English poetry and was done mostly for the artistic purpose (Harbeck 2014). 1.3.3 Syntax of Yoda On the first sight language of Yoda might seem like nor ...
... We can see same negation pattern, putting the verb before the subject and front things, same as Yoda do in his language. All this was normal in old English poetry and was done mostly for the artistic purpose (Harbeck 2014). 1.3.3 Syntax of Yoda On the first sight language of Yoda might seem like nor ...
Automatic annotation of localization and identification relations in platform EXCOM
... definitions; summary of texts... Applicative and Cognitive Grammar holds as a principle that a static relation (identification, classification, localization, whole-and-part, size, attribute,...) exists when two entities are situated, relative to each other, in an open temporal interval. These entiti ...
... definitions; summary of texts... Applicative and Cognitive Grammar holds as a principle that a static relation (identification, classification, localization, whole-and-part, size, attribute,...) exists when two entities are situated, relative to each other, in an open temporal interval. These entiti ...
учебно-методический комплекс
... - stylistic opposition, based on relative opposition which arises out of the context through the expansion of objectively contrasting pairs The words involved in the opposition do not display any additional nuance of caused by being opposed one to another.
- is generally moulded in
... - stylistic opposition, based on relative opposition which arises out of the context through the expansion of objectively contrasting pairs The words involved in the opposition do not display any additional nuance of
How many theta roles in a reflexive verb?
... theta theory as used in the context of government and binding (Chomsky 1981), and also from approaches that give a lexical semantic representation (LSR) an important place in a theory of argument structure. In the Theta System, syntax only has access to argument structure as a projection of a lexico ...
... theta theory as used in the context of government and binding (Chomsky 1981), and also from approaches that give a lexical semantic representation (LSR) an important place in a theory of argument structure. In the Theta System, syntax only has access to argument structure as a projection of a lexico ...
There is more than one language
... All linguistic theories agree that the phonologically interpreted expressions of a language present a fairly rich phrase structure (though just how rich varies among theories). Linguistically important relations between expressions are often characterizable directly in terms of that phrase structure ...
... All linguistic theories agree that the phonologically interpreted expressions of a language present a fairly rich phrase structure (though just how rich varies among theories). Linguistically important relations between expressions are often characterizable directly in terms of that phrase structure ...
Tigris and Euphrastes - a comparison between human and machine
... Indeed, MT appears to be a breeding ground for new problems and new viewpoints concerning the philosophy of language. Such philosophic issues will only be touched upon here when they are inescapable. Any passage in any language can be treated as an ordered set of symbols. By order is meant significa ...
... Indeed, MT appears to be a breeding ground for new problems and new viewpoints concerning the philosophy of language. Such philosophic issues will only be touched upon here when they are inescapable. Any passage in any language can be treated as an ordered set of symbols. By order is meant significa ...
1 The syntax/morphology interface Heidi Harley, University of
... (Lapointe 1980), according to which words are built by distinct mechanisms, which are encapsulated from the mechanisms that create syntactic structure. In such theories, there are levels of representation and rules of grammatical structure dedicated to wordformation. Lexical insertion introduces the ...
... (Lapointe 1980), according to which words are built by distinct mechanisms, which are encapsulated from the mechanisms that create syntactic structure. In such theories, there are levels of representation and rules of grammatical structure dedicated to wordformation. Lexical insertion introduces the ...
Looking Through the Lens of Individual Differences: Relationships
... The study of individual differences in cognitive abilities and personality traits has the potential to inform our understanding of how the processing mechanisms underlying different behaviors are organized. In the current set of studies, we applied an individual-differences approach to the study of ...
... The study of individual differences in cognitive abilities and personality traits has the potential to inform our understanding of how the processing mechanisms underlying different behaviors are organized. In the current set of studies, we applied an individual-differences approach to the study of ...
Exo-skeletal vs. endo-skeletal explanations
... More specifically, I will suggest that syntactic properties typically associated with listed items, notably argument structure and category type, are, in fact, properties of structures and not properties of the listed items themselves. While listed items may still convey an idea (e.g., potato is dis ...
... More specifically, I will suggest that syntactic properties typically associated with listed items, notably argument structure and category type, are, in fact, properties of structures and not properties of the listed items themselves. While listed items may still convey an idea (e.g., potato is dis ...
x - Loughborough University Intranet
... • Model theory is developed by Tarski in the continuity of his work on the semantic definition of truth for quantified logic. • A semantic definition of truth put in relation a formalized language with interpretative structures of this language. ...
... • Model theory is developed by Tarski in the continuity of his work on the semantic definition of truth for quantified logic. • A semantic definition of truth put in relation a formalized language with interpretative structures of this language. ...
NON-FINITE AND VERBLESS CLAUSES: TEXTUAL VALUES
... recognisable, are structured as instructions, making use of the Imperative in the main clause and very simple short sentences. The relationship between the imperative and the non-finite / verbless clause poses problems concerning the identification of the missing subject. On the one hand we may take ...
... recognisable, are structured as instructions, making use of the Imperative in the main clause and very simple short sentences. The relationship between the imperative and the non-finite / verbless clause poses problems concerning the identification of the missing subject. On the one hand we may take ...
quantitative and qualitative - BU Blogs
... narrative-based methods, as well as more generic forms of content analysis. There is no such thing as a non-quantifiable observation because any single statement that can be made about one phenomenon could also be made about another phenomenon, thus providing the possibility of some sort of scale. Y ...
... narrative-based methods, as well as more generic forms of content analysis. There is no such thing as a non-quantifiable observation because any single statement that can be made about one phenomenon could also be made about another phenomenon, thus providing the possibility of some sort of scale. Y ...
Full Text - Rutgers University
... explains some differences between definite descriptions with all and quantified NP's with every that are unexplained if all is analysed as a universal quantifier. In particular, the different scopal possibilities of all and every in direct object position, and their differences in distribution with ...
... explains some differences between definite descriptions with all and quantified NP's with every that are unexplained if all is analysed as a universal quantifier. In particular, the different scopal possibilities of all and every in direct object position, and their differences in distribution with ...
Encoding information on adjectives in a lexical
... entities (loes - referred to by concrete nouns), 2 "d order entities (2oes - referred to by verbs, adjectives or nouns indicating properties, states, processes or events), and 3 rd order entities (3oes referred to by abstract nouns indicating propositions existing independently of time and space). B ...
... entities (loes - referred to by concrete nouns), 2 "d order entities (2oes - referred to by verbs, adjectives or nouns indicating properties, states, processes or events), and 3 rd order entities (3oes referred to by abstract nouns indicating propositions existing independently of time and space). B ...