Resulting States in Niuean
... (McEwen 1970:170). Sperlich (1997) regards ma- as a morpheme that creates participles with diminished agentivity. He notes, however, that there are many idiosyncrasies where the expected participial reading is not found. Whittaker (1982) builds on McEwen’s observations and claims that ma- “transform ...
... (McEwen 1970:170). Sperlich (1997) regards ma- as a morpheme that creates participles with diminished agentivity. He notes, however, that there are many idiosyncrasies where the expected participial reading is not found. Whittaker (1982) builds on McEwen’s observations and claims that ma- “transform ...
4. Modelling Lexical Resources for Slavic Languages in KPML
... when the clause it is part of is in active voice and its OBJECT is realized as a nominal group, that nominal group should be in the dative case rather than the accusative case (which would be the default case for realizing an OBJECT as nominal group with a clause in active voice). Thus, we need to o ...
... when the clause it is part of is in active voice and its OBJECT is realized as a nominal group, that nominal group should be in the dative case rather than the accusative case (which would be the default case for realizing an OBJECT as nominal group with a clause in active voice). Thus, we need to o ...
How motion verbs are special
... part of their meanings. This is a distinct and clearly demarcated class, which has been found to exist cross-linguistically. The second type of meaning divides this general verb class into three different classes, distinguished by three canonical types of gap-filling information. The manner-of motio ...
... part of their meanings. This is a distinct and clearly demarcated class, which has been found to exist cross-linguistically. The second type of meaning divides this general verb class into three different classes, distinguished by three canonical types of gap-filling information. The manner-of motio ...
Locative Invenion, Definiteness, and Free Word Order in Russian
... of this paper, I will attempt to achieve a more preCise formulation of definiteness. The structure of this paper is as follows: first, I present Bresnan's analysis of locative inversion in English and apply it to Russian examples. Second, I ...
... of this paper, I will attempt to achieve a more preCise formulation of definiteness. The structure of this paper is as follows: first, I present Bresnan's analysis of locative inversion in English and apply it to Russian examples. Second, I ...
CHAPTER 2 THE ORIGIN OF LIGHT VERBS
... event structures are directly correlated with syntactic structures. The problems include the following. First, HK-Chomsky's hypothesis that event structures are completely determined by the syntactic structures cannot account for all cases, since there are examples where an individual syntactic stru ...
... event structures are directly correlated with syntactic structures. The problems include the following. First, HK-Chomsky's hypothesis that event structures are completely determined by the syntactic structures cannot account for all cases, since there are examples where an individual syntactic stru ...
chapters 4 and 5
... Four suggestions on identifying the Object Predicate are: (a) only use this label if you have a (direct) object, (b) if you see the verb consider, it is a good candidate for having a direct object and object predicate, (c) if you leave out the Object Predicate, the sentence is incomplete or has a di ...
... Four suggestions on identifying the Object Predicate are: (a) only use this label if you have a (direct) object, (b) if you see the verb consider, it is a good candidate for having a direct object and object predicate, (c) if you leave out the Object Predicate, the sentence is incomplete or has a di ...
this PDF file
... even if the answer is in the affirmative, no one has ever demonstrated an actual instance of such a change, which is all the more understandable in view of the fact that the basic word order VSO is hardly ever found in ergative languages. The majority of the nominative ergative explanations derive ...
... even if the answer is in the affirmative, no one has ever demonstrated an actual instance of such a change, which is all the more understandable in view of the fact that the basic word order VSO is hardly ever found in ergative languages. The majority of the nominative ergative explanations derive ...
Coordination of Unlikes without Unlike Categories
... The existence of two propositions is correctly predicted by an ellipsis account, whereas it has to be stipulated in base-generation via copying-out of the semantic content of predicates. For instance, in (7) one would have to copy-out the verb predicate as well as the NP a talk, and ensure that vari ...
... The existence of two propositions is correctly predicted by an ellipsis account, whereas it has to be stipulated in base-generation via copying-out of the semantic content of predicates. For instance, in (7) one would have to copy-out the verb predicate as well as the NP a talk, and ensure that vari ...
Baldwin, Timothy and Su Nam Kim (2010) Multiword Expressions, in
... The semantics of blow hot and cold (“constantly change opinion”), for example, is partially predictable from blow (“move” and hence “change”), but not as immediately from hot and cold . There are also cases where the meanings of the parts are transparently inherited but there is additional semantic ...
... The semantics of blow hot and cold (“constantly change opinion”), for example, is partially predictable from blow (“move” and hence “change”), but not as immediately from hot and cold . There are also cases where the meanings of the parts are transparently inherited but there is additional semantic ...
Chapter 9
... last section, this one takes up the topic of basic Ik clauses: unmarked main clauses, subordinate clauses, and various types of marked main clauses. Other specific topics covered in later sections of this chapter include questions, reported speech, comparative constructions, and negation. Ik exhibit ...
... last section, this one takes up the topic of basic Ik clauses: unmarked main clauses, subordinate clauses, and various types of marked main clauses. Other specific topics covered in later sections of this chapter include questions, reported speech, comparative constructions, and negation. Ik exhibit ...
as a PDF
... Over the last decade, in Generative Grammar there has been an increasing interest in VPCs in the Germanic languages, which was mainly due to their ambiguous structural status between words and phrases (cf. the introductory chapter in Dehé et alii 2002). Indeed, the big question was: do they belong t ...
... Over the last decade, in Generative Grammar there has been an increasing interest in VPCs in the Germanic languages, which was mainly due to their ambiguous structural status between words and phrases (cf. the introductory chapter in Dehé et alii 2002). Indeed, the big question was: do they belong t ...
Inanimate nouns as subjects in Mi`gmaq
... In this section, I provide evidence that Blackfoot, another Algonquian language, disallows all semantically inanimate subjects (including the class of semantically inanimate but grammatically animate nouns). Then I present data from Mi’gmaq that shows the opposite: inanimate subjects of transitive v ...
... In this section, I provide evidence that Blackfoot, another Algonquian language, disallows all semantically inanimate subjects (including the class of semantically inanimate but grammatically animate nouns). Then I present data from Mi’gmaq that shows the opposite: inanimate subjects of transitive v ...
The Syntactic Operator se in Spanish
... on the topic, there is not total agreement in the number and classification of the different constructions. Here I am mainly following the traditional classification found, for example, in Alcina and Blecua (1980); I differ from this source when I present what I call ...
... on the topic, there is not total agreement in the number and classification of the different constructions. Here I am mainly following the traditional classification found, for example, in Alcina and Blecua (1980); I differ from this source when I present what I call ...
Recent Developments in the Theory of Valency in the Light of the
... of two (or more) valency frames – a (slight) difference in the sense is ignored if lexical units do not differ syntactically. (15) hýbat1 [to move] 7 … ACT(1;obl) PAT(Instr,s+Instr;obl) hýbat rukou; hýbat (s) křeslem [to move (with) sb`s hand, to move an armchair] In Czech lexicons “Slovník spisovné ...
... of two (or more) valency frames – a (slight) difference in the sense is ignored if lexical units do not differ syntactically. (15) hýbat1 [to move] 7 … ACT(1;obl) PAT(Instr,s+Instr;obl) hýbat rukou; hýbat (s) křeslem [to move (with) sb`s hand, to move an armchair] In Czech lexicons “Slovník spisovné ...
NooJ Semantic dictionaries - elliadd - Université de Franche
... Selected relations • Similar to (symmetric relation between similar adjectival synsets); • Verb group (symmetric relation between semantically related verb synsets); • Also see (symmetric relation between synsets verbs or adjectives, that are close in meaning); • Category domain (asymmetric extrali ...
... Selected relations • Similar to (symmetric relation between similar adjectival synsets); • Verb group (symmetric relation between semantically related verb synsets); • Also see (symmetric relation between synsets verbs or adjectives, that are close in meaning); • Category domain (asymmetric extrali ...
This is the author`s final draft, 15 August 2014. The
... meaning arise from this source? What are the motivations and mechanisms involved in this semantic change? Research investigating the stages after the initial emergence of the perfect meaning is much scarcer. Bybee & Dahl (1989: 69) and Bybee et al. (1994: 66) suggest that both perfect constructions ...
... meaning arise from this source? What are the motivations and mechanisms involved in this semantic change? Research investigating the stages after the initial emergence of the perfect meaning is much scarcer. Bybee & Dahl (1989: 69) and Bybee et al. (1994: 66) suggest that both perfect constructions ...
Emai Separation Verbs and Telicity
... and how precisely it is measured continue to be debated. Nonetheless, this discussion has suggested that there may be a telicity divide in which some languages determine end state status compositionally, amalgamating verb with grammatical properties of associated arguments, while other languages do ...
... and how precisely it is measured continue to be debated. Nonetheless, this discussion has suggested that there may be a telicity divide in which some languages determine end state status compositionally, amalgamating verb with grammatical properties of associated arguments, while other languages do ...
Bare resultatives - UCL Phonetics and Linguistics
... Williams 1980 and subsequent work argues that subjects are external arguments; that is, generated outside the maximal projection of the predicative head. On this view, it becomes trivial to distinguish the underlying subject of an unaccusative from the subject of an unergative. The former is generat ...
... Williams 1980 and subsequent work argues that subjects are external arguments; that is, generated outside the maximal projection of the predicative head. On this view, it becomes trivial to distinguish the underlying subject of an unaccusative from the subject of an unergative. The former is generat ...
Reciprocal markers in Adyghe, their relations and interactions
... The first two prefixes, viz. ze- and zere-, occupy the slot of one of the agreement affixes in the verb form, while other slots are occupied by agreement markers. The prefix ze- is used on subject-oriented “canonical”i reciprocals of two-place intransitive bases (cf. (24b)) and subject-oriented “ind ...
... The first two prefixes, viz. ze- and zere-, occupy the slot of one of the agreement affixes in the verb form, while other slots are occupied by agreement markers. The prefix ze- is used on subject-oriented “canonical”i reciprocals of two-place intransitive bases (cf. (24b)) and subject-oriented “ind ...
Annotation Tools and Knowledge Representation for a Text
... meaning of the lexical units in that frame. Frames can contain any number of individual lexical units. The COMMERCE_SELL frame, for example, has lexical units for words like retail, sell, and vend. The exact expression of FEs for a given sentence constitutes what FrameNet refers to as a valence pat ...
... meaning of the lexical units in that frame. Frames can contain any number of individual lexical units. The COMMERCE_SELL frame, for example, has lexical units for words like retail, sell, and vend. The exact expression of FEs for a given sentence constitutes what FrameNet refers to as a valence pat ...
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax
... continuous directed motion undergone by < 1 > motion involves rapid movement of legs, no continuous contact with ground ...
... continuous directed motion undergone by < 1 > motion involves rapid movement of legs, no continuous contact with ground ...
Embedded and Coordinated Finite and non-finite Clauses in
... not function as indirect objects or as objects of prepositional objects . They do not function as object predicates either . Coordinated clauses have no function in another clause ,they are on equal footing, i.e. this means that you could even make them into two independent clauses inside NP or Adj ...
... not function as indirect objects or as objects of prepositional objects . They do not function as object predicates either . Coordinated clauses have no function in another clause ,they are on equal footing, i.e. this means that you could even make them into two independent clauses inside NP or Adj ...
Bare nominals and incorporating verbs in Spanish and Catalan
... with property-type nominals. Finally, we show how the analysis can be naturally extended to existential sentences, which combine with BNs although, prima facie, they do not appear to meet the lexical conditions for doing so. 1. INTRODUCTION Under the most classical view of the syntax-semantics inter ...
... with property-type nominals. Finally, we show how the analysis can be naturally extended to existential sentences, which combine with BNs although, prima facie, they do not appear to meet the lexical conditions for doing so. 1. INTRODUCTION Under the most classical view of the syntax-semantics inter ...
The Spanish DELPH-IN Grammar - Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat
... shows, as an example, the lexical entry for the common noun ejemplo (’example’).9 2.2.1 Lexical Types Lexical types represent the classes of words that a lexicon in the LKB system contains and are defined on the basis of shared syntactic and semantic properties. Following well-established theoretica ...
... shows, as an example, the lexical entry for the common noun ejemplo (’example’).9 2.2.1 Lexical Types Lexical types represent the classes of words that a lexicon in the LKB system contains and are defined on the basis of shared syntactic and semantic properties. Following well-established theoretica ...
Reconstruction the Lexical Domain with a Single Generative
... with the universally available grammatical features), whatever it may be and however it interacts with the syntax/morphology, is nothing like the internal structure of words and sentences and thus cannot be decomposed or composed in the grammar. See Fodor 1998, Fodor & Lepore 1998 (vs. Pustejovsky a ...
... with the universally available grammatical features), whatever it may be and however it interacts with the syntax/morphology, is nothing like the internal structure of words and sentences and thus cannot be decomposed or composed in the grammar. See Fodor 1998, Fodor & Lepore 1998 (vs. Pustejovsky a ...