Ling 390 - Intro to Linguistics
... For example: Sam ate the cake in the kitchen. (See handout for answers) What are the 2 meanings? What is the relationship between the phrases in the sentence (what modifies what?) Interpretation 1: Sam ate the cake that was in the kitchen. Relationship of phrases in the sentence: The PP in the kitch ...
... For example: Sam ate the cake in the kitchen. (See handout for answers) What are the 2 meanings? What is the relationship between the phrases in the sentence (what modifies what?) Interpretation 1: Sam ate the cake that was in the kitchen. Relationship of phrases in the sentence: The PP in the kitch ...
Argumentation Mining: The Detection, Classification and Structure of
... attracts attention from philosophers, logicians, linguists, legal scholars, speech communication theorists, etc. The theory is grounded in conversational, interpersonal communication, but also applies to group communication and written communication. From our point of view there are three main argum ...
... attracts attention from philosophers, logicians, linguists, legal scholars, speech communication theorists, etc. The theory is grounded in conversational, interpersonal communication, but also applies to group communication and written communication. From our point of view there are three main argum ...
Great Grammar Commas - The Described and Captioned Media
... This video is about the proper use of commas in sentences, and it sets the stage by having the viewer imagine he or she is a photographer for a travel magazine. The photographer’s assignment is to travel the world and take pictures of exotic locations such as: Belize, London, New York, and Antarctic ...
... This video is about the proper use of commas in sentences, and it sets the stage by having the viewer imagine he or she is a photographer for a travel magazine. The photographer’s assignment is to travel the world and take pictures of exotic locations such as: Belize, London, New York, and Antarctic ...
The interpretation of copular constructions in Chinese: Semantic
... correspond to a cleft construction in English as shown by the translations, they do not involve syntactic reordering, unlike their English counterparts. Obviously, the emphasized element in Chinese remains in situ: the morpheme shi is simply inserted immediately before the intended focus, without ch ...
... correspond to a cleft construction in English as shown by the translations, they do not involve syntactic reordering, unlike their English counterparts. Obviously, the emphasized element in Chinese remains in situ: the morpheme shi is simply inserted immediately before the intended focus, without ch ...
2_7 Luraghi_Clitics
... conveyed by clitics of different sorts, together with their role in discourse. Clitics are mostly items that convey grammatical, rather than lexical information, such as auxiliaries or modal particles; as repeatedly remarked, pronouns also typically have clitic forms or variants. Thus, clitics have ...
... conveyed by clitics of different sorts, together with their role in discourse. Clitics are mostly items that convey grammatical, rather than lexical information, such as auxiliaries or modal particles; as repeatedly remarked, pronouns also typically have clitic forms or variants. Thus, clitics have ...
Syntactic, semantic and phonological factors determining the
... Eve-ACC ‘It was Peter who did not call up Eve.’ The presupposed, post-focus section of focus constructions (the NegP in (12)) is subject to stress reduction. ...
... Eve-ACC ‘It was Peter who did not call up Eve.’ The presupposed, post-focus section of focus constructions (the NegP in (12)) is subject to stress reduction. ...
Contextually-Dependent Lexical Semantics
... valid conclusions; it might depend on a particular person’s model of the world, the context in which that inference takes place, or on his knowledge. The interpretation of the intransitive John drinks, for example, can depend on the discourse or situational context in which it is uttered, or might b ...
... valid conclusions; it might depend on a particular person’s model of the world, the context in which that inference takes place, or on his knowledge. The interpretation of the intransitive John drinks, for example, can depend on the discourse or situational context in which it is uttered, or might b ...
Domain Independent Sentence Generation from RDF
... must be fully and explicitly represented using “tree”structures and descriptive constraints are often attached to the structures to provide control information. The advantage of using tree-like notations as inputs is that rich linguistic information and control information in the input enable NLG sy ...
... must be fully and explicitly represented using “tree”structures and descriptive constraints are often attached to the structures to provide control information. The advantage of using tree-like notations as inputs is that rich linguistic information and control information in the input enable NLG sy ...
ENG421 - National Open University of Nigeria
... derivation and economy of representation. Economy of derivation as a principle states that movements (i.e. transformations) are feature-driven. This means that they are informed by the feature composition of the items involved in the transformation. You will learn more on the notion “features” later ...
... derivation and economy of representation. Economy of derivation as a principle states that movements (i.e. transformations) are feature-driven. This means that they are informed by the feature composition of the items involved in the transformation. You will learn more on the notion “features” later ...
Logical and typological arguments for Radical
... indexation for verbs, etc. However, an analytic language such as Vietnamese lacks these inflections, and so inflections cannot be used to identify nouns, verbs etc. in that language. Likewise, a number of constructions are used to identify “subject” and “object” in a language such as English, for ex ...
... indexation for verbs, etc. However, an analytic language such as Vietnamese lacks these inflections, and so inflections cannot be used to identify nouns, verbs etc. in that language. Likewise, a number of constructions are used to identify “subject” and “object” in a language such as English, for ex ...
GP Flash! - Grammar Punk
... GP Flash!™ is perfect for getting things started at the beginning of class, livening up the middle, or revving up the tail end. How many sentences or exercises you want to assign is up to you. The Grammar Punk™ Dice keep things lively and the process of putting pen to paper is right where it belongs ...
... GP Flash!™ is perfect for getting things started at the beginning of class, livening up the middle, or revving up the tail end. How many sentences or exercises you want to assign is up to you. The Grammar Punk™ Dice keep things lively and the process of putting pen to paper is right where it belongs ...
对英语中歧义的初步研究
... lexeme, syntax and the not-strictly restricted context. Since that ambiguity exists in every language, it must be received worldwide attention. As we all know, many different linguistic schools, both domestic and abroad, have studied for many years on the level of phonology, lexis, syntax and in the ...
... lexeme, syntax and the not-strictly restricted context. Since that ambiguity exists in every language, it must be received worldwide attention. As we all know, many different linguistic schools, both domestic and abroad, have studied for many years on the level of phonology, lexis, syntax and in the ...
Microsyntax
... semantic glue which connects meanings of words. We assume that if there is a syntagmatic semantic link between two words, then in most cases one of them fills a valence slot of the other, or, more precisely, the meaning of one of these words contains a predicate whose argument makes part of the mean ...
... semantic glue which connects meanings of words. We assume that if there is a syntagmatic semantic link between two words, then in most cases one of them fills a valence slot of the other, or, more precisely, the meaning of one of these words contains a predicate whose argument makes part of the mean ...
ARCHIVEr JUN 30 1975
... theoretical claims about constraints on movement are incorrect. I argue that indirect question formation necessitates an unbounded rightward movement transformation, vitiating the Right Roof Constraint. Direct questions formed from sentences involving only direct discourse verbs demonstrate that unb ...
... theoretical claims about constraints on movement are incorrect. I argue that indirect question formation necessitates an unbounded rightward movement transformation, vitiating the Right Roof Constraint. Direct questions formed from sentences involving only direct discourse verbs demonstrate that unb ...
File - Mrs. Helenius English!!!!
... DIRECTIONS: Underline and label the subjects and verbs / verb phrases in the following examples. Then, determine whether or not each word group is a sentence (S) or a fragment (F). Remember, an independent clause / sentence must contain a subject, a verb, and a complete thought. SAMPLE: Ryan was scr ...
... DIRECTIONS: Underline and label the subjects and verbs / verb phrases in the following examples. Then, determine whether or not each word group is a sentence (S) or a fragment (F). Remember, an independent clause / sentence must contain a subject, a verb, and a complete thought. SAMPLE: Ryan was scr ...
The acquisition of a unification-based generalised categorial grammar
... input from a corpus of spontaneous child-directed transcribed speech annotated with logical forms and sets the parameters based on this input. This framework is used as a basis to investigate several aspects of language acquisition. In this thesis I concentrate on the acquisition of subcategorisatio ...
... input from a corpus of spontaneous child-directed transcribed speech annotated with logical forms and sets the parameters based on this input. This framework is used as a basis to investigate several aspects of language acquisition. In this thesis I concentrate on the acquisition of subcategorisatio ...
Identifying Relations for Open Information Extraction
... Incoherent extractions are cases where the extracted relation phrase has no meaningful interpretation (see Table 1 for examples). Incoherent extractions arise because the learned extractor makes a sequence of decisions about whether to include each word in the relation phrase, often resulting in inc ...
... Incoherent extractions are cases where the extracted relation phrase has no meaningful interpretation (see Table 1 for examples). Incoherent extractions arise because the learned extractor makes a sequence of decisions about whether to include each word in the relation phrase, often resulting in inc ...
the EMNLP 2011 paper - ReVerb
... Incoherent extractions are cases where the extracted relation phrase has no meaningful interpretation (see Table 1 for examples). Incoherent extractions arise because the learned extractor makes a sequence of decisions about whether to include each word in the relation phrase, often resulting in inc ...
... Incoherent extractions are cases where the extracted relation phrase has no meaningful interpretation (see Table 1 for examples). Incoherent extractions arise because the learned extractor makes a sequence of decisions about whether to include each word in the relation phrase, often resulting in inc ...
lexical and structural ambiguity in humorous headlines
... chapter 2 will offer a survey of the literature on ambiguity as a psycholinguistic and cognitive phenomenon, and studies will be reviewed that make hypotheses on the functioning of the ambiguity resolution mechanisms that come into play in sentence processing. Chapter 3 will then present the corpus ...
... chapter 2 will offer a survey of the literature on ambiguity as a psycholinguistic and cognitive phenomenon, and studies will be reviewed that make hypotheses on the functioning of the ambiguity resolution mechanisms that come into play in sentence processing. Chapter 3 will then present the corpus ...
ISSN 2354-6948 A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ENGLISH
... Preposition is a word like at, to, in, over etc. Prepositions usually come before a noun and give information about things like time, place and direction. There are three general types of prepositions, each one indicating relationships with regard to either time, place or direction. Time preposition ...
... Preposition is a word like at, to, in, over etc. Prepositions usually come before a noun and give information about things like time, place and direction. There are three general types of prepositions, each one indicating relationships with regard to either time, place or direction. Time preposition ...
Phrases
... If you do not need the phrase to make the meaning clear, and changing the appositive does not affect the basic point of the sentence, it is an nonessential appositive and requires commas. ...
... If you do not need the phrase to make the meaning clear, and changing the appositive does not affect the basic point of the sentence, it is an nonessential appositive and requires commas. ...
Cross-linguistic priming of syntactic hierarchical
... is not due to lexical priming of the function word ‘‘by’’). Nonetheless, even if the priming results are unlikely to be due to lexical priming of function words such as ‘‘to’’ or ‘‘by,’’ the results of syntactic priming are still primarily interpreted in terms of priming of information that is conta ...
... is not due to lexical priming of the function word ‘‘by’’). Nonetheless, even if the priming results are unlikely to be due to lexical priming of function words such as ‘‘to’’ or ‘‘by,’’ the results of syntactic priming are still primarily interpreted in terms of priming of information that is conta ...
Semantic peculiarities of homonyms in English and Uzbek
... according to the dictionary data is no less than 400, 000.A question naturally arises whether this enormous word-stock is composed of separate independent lexical units, or may it perhaps be regarded as a certain structured system made up of numerous interdependent and interrelated sub-systems or gr ...
... according to the dictionary data is no less than 400, 000.A question naturally arises whether this enormous word-stock is composed of separate independent lexical units, or may it perhaps be regarded as a certain structured system made up of numerous interdependent and interrelated sub-systems or gr ...
Focus (linguistics)
Focus is a grammatical category that determines which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information.Focus is related to information structure. Contrastive focus specifically refers to the coding of information that is contrary to the presuppositions of the interlocutor.Related terms include Comment and Rheme.