54. Adverbs and adverbials
... The term “adverb” refers to a specific word class or lexical category and therefore contrasts with other word classes, such as nouns, adjectives, verbs, or prepositions. On the one hand, both adverbs and prepositions are uninflected, with adverbs differing from prepositions in having phrasal status. ...
... The term “adverb” refers to a specific word class or lexical category and therefore contrasts with other word classes, such as nouns, adjectives, verbs, or prepositions. On the one hand, both adverbs and prepositions are uninflected, with adverbs differing from prepositions in having phrasal status. ...
PART FOUR DISCOURSES OVER THE COURSE OF TIME
... case of an onomatopoetic or sound-symbolic origin and that they are phonologically and morphologically irregular, the examples show that interjections often had conventionalized forms. Many were morphologically complex. Moreover, even old and simple interjections were affected by later sound-changes ...
... case of an onomatopoetic or sound-symbolic origin and that they are phonologically and morphologically irregular, the examples show that interjections often had conventionalized forms. Many were morphologically complex. Moreover, even old and simple interjections were affected by later sound-changes ...
Conjunctions as Heads
... The term head has been used a long time; Hudson (1987:109) dates it back to Henry Sweet (1891) (quoted in Matthews 1981:165), who used it to refer to any word to which other words are subordinate. In recent years, the term has had a renaissance, being used for the most prominent and super-ordinate w ...
... The term head has been used a long time; Hudson (1987:109) dates it back to Henry Sweet (1891) (quoted in Matthews 1981:165), who used it to refer to any word to which other words are subordinate. In recent years, the term has had a renaissance, being used for the most prominent and super-ordinate w ...
fulltext - LOT Publications
... Grammar framework, but to its general use, that is, to a linguistic item, be it a one-word or a multiword expression. The specific Construction Grammar use will be relevant in chapter 8 of this book. ...
... Grammar framework, but to its general use, that is, to a linguistic item, be it a one-word or a multiword expression. The specific Construction Grammar use will be relevant in chapter 8 of this book. ...
Adverbs in Kenyang
... different adverbial behaviours. The analysis supposes that the nature of the syntactic constituent that licenses the adverb determines its semantic interpretation. The latter is obtained given the semantic features associated with the adverb. In Jackendoff’s (1972) analysis, adverbs are semantically ...
... different adverbial behaviours. The analysis supposes that the nature of the syntactic constituent that licenses the adverb determines its semantic interpretation. The latter is obtained given the semantic features associated with the adverb. In Jackendoff’s (1972) analysis, adverbs are semantically ...
Copyright by Ulf Hermjakob 1997 - Information Sciences Institute
... The parsing of unrestricted text, with its enormous lexical and structural ambiguity, still poses a great challenge in natural language processing. The diculties with traditional approaches, which try to master the complexity of parse grammars with hand-crafted rules, have led to a trend towards mo ...
... The parsing of unrestricted text, with its enormous lexical and structural ambiguity, still poses a great challenge in natural language processing. The diculties with traditional approaches, which try to master the complexity of parse grammars with hand-crafted rules, have led to a trend towards mo ...
my dissertation - Semantics Archive
... interact to produce the Internally-Headed Relative Clause (IHRC) construction in Korean and Japanese. The IHRC construction differs from the more familiar Externally-Headed Relative Clause (EHRC) construction in several ways. First, unlike an EHRC, an IHRC’s content restricts the matrix clause’s con ...
... interact to produce the Internally-Headed Relative Clause (IHRC) construction in Korean and Japanese. The IHRC construction differs from the more familiar Externally-Headed Relative Clause (EHRC) construction in several ways. First, unlike an EHRC, an IHRC’s content restricts the matrix clause’s con ...
The Analogical Speaker or grammar put in its place
... René-Joseph Lavie. The Analogical Speaker or grammar put in its place. Linguistique. Université de Nanterre - Paris X, 2003. Français.
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... René-Joseph Lavie. The Analogical Speaker or grammar put in its place. Linguistique. Université de Nanterre - Paris X, 2003. Français.
On the notion of subject for subject-oriented adverbs
... argues that those properties that defined subjecthood in earlier models are distributed over at least three distinct syntactic positions. He then concludes that there is no unified notion of ‘subject’ or ‘subject position’ in the theory of grammar. The research carried out along this line of thought ...
... argues that those properties that defined subjecthood in earlier models are distributed over at least three distinct syntactic positions. He then concludes that there is no unified notion of ‘subject’ or ‘subject position’ in the theory of grammar. The research carried out along this line of thought ...
Diachrony in Clause Linkage and Related Issues By Toshio Ohori
... structural and semantic intricacies involving anaphors, operators, and various conceptual ramifications, which any grammatical theory must take good care of. This granted, there still can be, and in fact are, several branching points in approaching the phenomena under investigation, and I will discu ...
... structural and semantic intricacies involving anaphors, operators, and various conceptual ramifications, which any grammatical theory must take good care of. This granted, there still can be, and in fact are, several branching points in approaching the phenomena under investigation, and I will discu ...
Passive and passive-like constructions in English and Polish
... the meaning of the basic passive and which can be seen as resulting from alterations in grammatical voice. In particular the thesis describes and analyses several related types of construction including the passive, the impersonal, and the anticausative. The main objective of this dissertation is a ...
... the meaning of the basic passive and which can be seen as resulting from alterations in grammatical voice. In particular the thesis describes and analyses several related types of construction including the passive, the impersonal, and the anticausative. The main objective of this dissertation is a ...
Focus on Topic: Information Structure in the
... and their contexts. It addresses the fundamental question of why there are so many kinds of sentence structures” (Lambrecht, 2004:9) ...
... and their contexts. It addresses the fundamental question of why there are so many kinds of sentence structures” (Lambrecht, 2004:9) ...
Applying the Constraint Grammar Parser of English to the Helsinki
... contains about 84,000 lexical entries, represents the core vocabulary of Present-day English, including all inflected and central derived English word-forms. Prefixes and endings are represented in separate ‘minilexicons’ accessible from the ‘stem’ lexicon. ENGTWOL also employs a feature system larg ...
... contains about 84,000 lexical entries, represents the core vocabulary of Present-day English, including all inflected and central derived English word-forms. Prefixes and endings are represented in separate ‘minilexicons’ accessible from the ‘stem’ lexicon. ENGTWOL also employs a feature system larg ...
The complete Proceedings of Depling 2011 as a single PDF file
... Ibn Mada was the first grammarian ever to use the term dependency in the grammatical sense that we use it today. He was born in 1119 in Cordoba, studied in Sevilla and Ceuta, and died 1195 in Sevilla. He is known for his only book, Radd: the refutation of grammarians, in which he tackles subjects th ...
... Ibn Mada was the first grammarian ever to use the term dependency in the grammatical sense that we use it today. He was born in 1119 in Cordoba, studied in Sevilla and Ceuta, and died 1195 in Sevilla. He is known for his only book, Radd: the refutation of grammarians, in which he tackles subjects th ...
Using an Ontology for Guiding Natural Language
... The general linguistic knowledge needed to cover the expression in NL of the tasks the system performs is represented by means of the LO and a set containing all possible realizations of the application terms. The LO is domain and application independent. The control information to relate the gener ...
... The general linguistic knowledge needed to cover the expression in NL of the tasks the system performs is represented by means of the LO and a set containing all possible realizations of the application terms. The LO is domain and application independent. The control information to relate the gener ...
Absolute Clauses in the Literature
... they are not connected with the main clauses with conjunctive expressions and are usually separated by punctuation marks. The logical roles played by free adjuncts ...
... they are not connected with the main clauses with conjunctive expressions and are usually separated by punctuation marks. The logical roles played by free adjuncts ...
T E M P O R A L ... C O M B I N I N G ...
... such markers as when, then, until, etc. and the latter by if, so, because, etc. The research falls into three main domains: semantics, morpho-syntax and distributional patterns. First, the study provides an overview of the semantics of temporal and co-varying relations in the Austronesian languages. ...
... such markers as when, then, until, etc. and the latter by if, so, because, etc. The research falls into three main domains: semantics, morpho-syntax and distributional patterns. First, the study provides an overview of the semantics of temporal and co-varying relations in the Austronesian languages. ...
The interpretation of copular constructions in Chinese: Semantic
... local linguistic context for its meaning. The context-dependent nature of interpreting the Chinese copula strongly suggests that it has semantically underspecified content which requires to be pragmatically enriched. This points to a hypothesis that the copular morpheme is an anaphoric expression wh ...
... local linguistic context for its meaning. The context-dependent nature of interpreting the Chinese copula strongly suggests that it has semantically underspecified content which requires to be pragmatically enriched. This points to a hypothesis that the copular morpheme is an anaphoric expression wh ...
Photos The typology of clause linkage: status quo, challenges
... As has been pointed out, the sub-classification of subordinate clauses shown in Table 1 is too coarse-grained for cross-linguistic comparison and probably also eurocentric. Still, it provides a useful point of orientation, and most contributions to this volume make use of it. Before turning to a (ra ...
... As has been pointed out, the sub-classification of subordinate clauses shown in Table 1 is too coarse-grained for cross-linguistic comparison and probably also eurocentric. Still, it provides a useful point of orientation, and most contributions to this volume make use of it. Before turning to a (ra ...
Metaphor and Lexical Semantics
... In appreciating Shakespeare’s lovely use of language, writ and pen are obviously understood metaphorically, and married lineament must be too. (The meanings listed in the Oxford English Dictionary for lineament include diagram, portion of a body, and portion of the face viewed with respect to its ou ...
... In appreciating Shakespeare’s lovely use of language, writ and pen are obviously understood metaphorically, and married lineament must be too. (The meanings listed in the Oxford English Dictionary for lineament include diagram, portion of a body, and portion of the face viewed with respect to its ou ...
Construction of grammar from the semantic basis
... rules grammatical devices and devices of lexical formation of sentences as grammatical-semantic structures and as structures of expression. This type of linguistic modelling became widespread approximately from the mid-1960s as an immediate reaction to the formalism of the prior period, usually asso ...
... rules grammatical devices and devices of lexical formation of sentences as grammatical-semantic structures and as structures of expression. This type of linguistic modelling became widespread approximately from the mid-1960s as an immediate reaction to the formalism of the prior period, usually asso ...
Introducing Arguments - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
... Kamoga-Bombokka and Hassan Sekabira for the Luganda data, Mulalo Doyoyo for the Venda data, Mirel Sharxhi and Dalina Kallulli for the Albanian data, Youngjoo Lee for the Korean data, and Danny Fox and Maya Arad for the Hebrew data. This thesis is purely theoretical but it could have just as well bee ...
... Kamoga-Bombokka and Hassan Sekabira for the Luganda data, Mulalo Doyoyo for the Venda data, Mirel Sharxhi and Dalina Kallulli for the Albanian data, Youngjoo Lee for the Korean data, and Danny Fox and Maya Arad for the Hebrew data. This thesis is purely theoretical but it could have just as well bee ...
Uses of ter- in Malay: A corpus-based study
... From (6a), we can see that ter-kenal ‘most famous’ may have been lexicalized, as it does not serve as the main verb in the sentence (berasal ‘originate’ does). In (6b), ter-daya means ‘be able and with strength.’ In (6c), ter-sebut means ‘mentioned before.’ Similar uses are discussed in works as ear ...
... From (6a), we can see that ter-kenal ‘most famous’ may have been lexicalized, as it does not serve as the main verb in the sentence (berasal ‘originate’ does). In (6b), ter-daya means ‘be able and with strength.’ In (6c), ter-sebut means ‘mentioned before.’ Similar uses are discussed in works as ear ...
4.1 A new classification of antonym functions in text
... The present corpus-driven study investigates antonym use in Modern Standard Arabic text using an on-line corpus (arTenTen12) and a newspaper corpus (arabiCorpus). This thesis shows that antonym functions in Arabic are to a certain degree similar to those found in other languages. A new classificatio ...
... The present corpus-driven study investigates antonym use in Modern Standard Arabic text using an on-line corpus (arTenTen12) and a newspaper corpus (arabiCorpus). This thesis shows that antonym functions in Arabic are to a certain degree similar to those found in other languages. A new classificatio ...
The Classification of Optatives: A Statistical Study
... to the mind, and can be expressed only by words like perhaps, possibly, or probably, or by such vague forms as if he pleased, or if he should try, if he could, if there should be an opportunity, etc. Sometimes a general condition, like in any possible case, is felt to be implied, so that the optativ ...
... to the mind, and can be expressed only by words like perhaps, possibly, or probably, or by such vague forms as if he pleased, or if he should try, if he could, if there should be an opportunity, etc. Sometimes a general condition, like in any possible case, is felt to be implied, so that the optativ ...