110 CHAPTER 3. NULL OBJECTS IN ENGLISH
... into the murky waters of the distinction between arguments of verbs and information available from world knowledge about events. This is, in part, what makes the study of null objects interesting. A well-defined model of the grammar of English and the English lexicon must make choices about what con ...
... into the murky waters of the distinction between arguments of verbs and information available from world knowledge about events. This is, in part, what makes the study of null objects interesting. A well-defined model of the grammar of English and the English lexicon must make choices about what con ...
Presentation sentences in fiction and academic prose: a syntactico
... (FSP). Several aspects are examined: the semantic aspect is reflected in the observation of the semantic character of the presentation verb and in the semantic affinity it displays with its subject. From the syntactic viewpoint, the sentential architecture of presentation sentences is examined as we ...
... (FSP). Several aspects are examined: the semantic aspect is reflected in the observation of the semantic character of the presentation verb and in the semantic affinity it displays with its subject. From the syntactic viewpoint, the sentential architecture of presentation sentences is examined as we ...
mandarin compound verbs - Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
... I owe a deep debt of gratitude to the many people who enabled me to finish this work, a revision of my dissertation, defended at Leiden in September 2004, though I can only mention a few. I thank my children Eric and Nadia and nephew Shan for continuing to be such an important part of my life, and b ...
... I owe a deep debt of gratitude to the many people who enabled me to finish this work, a revision of my dissertation, defended at Leiden in September 2004, though I can only mention a few. I thank my children Eric and Nadia and nephew Shan for continuing to be such an important part of my life, and b ...
Meaning Through Syntax: Language
... is used to denote a discourse entity characterized by a particular function. The function is defined in the following way: participation in an event caused by some force or entity external to itself. In other words, a discourse entity denoted by an object reduced relative clause could be represented ...
... is used to denote a discourse entity characterized by a particular function. The function is defined in the following way: participation in an event caused by some force or entity external to itself. In other words, a discourse entity denoted by an object reduced relative clause could be represented ...
PropBank Annotation Guidelines - Computational Language and
... verbs, as illustrated below: I made a decision [*PRO*] to leave. The subject of the verb leave in this example is represented as an empty category [*] in TreeBank. In PropBank, all empty categories which could be co-referred with a NP within the same sentence are linked in co-reference chains: Rel: ...
... verbs, as illustrated below: I made a decision [*PRO*] to leave. The subject of the verb leave in this example is represented as an empty category [*] in TreeBank. In PropBank, all empty categories which could be co-referred with a NP within the same sentence are linked in co-reference chains: Rel: ...
Present participles: Categorial classification and derivation Aya
... behave both like verbs and like adjectives, this is due to the fact that verbal and adjectival passives are very often homophonous (Wasow 1977, Levin & Rapapport 1986, among many others). There are thus two distinct entries, one verbal and one adjectival, rather than one "mixed" entry. Following thi ...
... behave both like verbs and like adjectives, this is due to the fact that verbal and adjectival passives are very often homophonous (Wasow 1977, Levin & Rapapport 1986, among many others). There are thus two distinct entries, one verbal and one adjectival, rather than one "mixed" entry. Following thi ...
1 Present participles
... behave both like verbs and like adjectives, this is due to the fact that verbal and adjectival passives are very often homophonous (Wasow 1977, Levin & Rapapport 1986, among many others). There are thus two distinct entries, one verbal and one adjectival, rather than one "mixed" entry. Following thi ...
... behave both like verbs and like adjectives, this is due to the fact that verbal and adjectival passives are very often homophonous (Wasow 1977, Levin & Rapapport 1986, among many others). There are thus two distinct entries, one verbal and one adjectival, rather than one "mixed" entry. Following thi ...
Nominal Roots as Event Predicates in English Denominal
... a constraint on possible interpretations is identified: intransitive denominal conversion verbs are infelicitous where the source nominal is intended to be an incremental theme (#apple ‘eat apple’), a patient (#shirt ‘wear shirt’), or the holder of a result state (#window ‘open window’). This little ...
... a constraint on possible interpretations is identified: intransitive denominal conversion verbs are infelicitous where the source nominal is intended to be an incremental theme (#apple ‘eat apple’), a patient (#shirt ‘wear shirt’), or the holder of a result state (#window ‘open window’). This little ...
Challenging Discrete Approaches to Secondary
... intending to subscribe to any particular theory at the moment, I will apply the widely-used term 'secondary predicate' to the predicative phrase XP and will call syntactic patterns including such a phrase 'secondary-predicate constructions'. ...
... intending to subscribe to any particular theory at the moment, I will apply the widely-used term 'secondary predicate' to the predicative phrase XP and will call syntactic patterns including such a phrase 'secondary-predicate constructions'. ...
Area of Investigation - University of Zimbabwe Institutional Repository
... specialisation of function for H (high) variety and L (low) variety. An H variety is more prestigious. The researcher has noticed that this is the situation in Chakari. The Nyanja people are invariably bilingual. Other than their first language (Nyanja), they also speak Shona. Strangers are greeted ...
... specialisation of function for H (high) variety and L (low) variety. An H variety is more prestigious. The researcher has noticed that this is the situation in Chakari. The Nyanja people are invariably bilingual. Other than their first language (Nyanja), they also speak Shona. Strangers are greeted ...
The ellipsis alternation: remnants with and without prepositions
... in interrogative clauses as prepositional objects and selected those for which BAE remnants served as responses. These data constitute 60% of the entire dataset. As for the third corpus, I extracted an equal sample of bare wh-phrases and which/what/whoseNP phrases from the spoken part of the corpus ...
... in interrogative clauses as prepositional objects and selected those for which BAE remnants served as responses. These data constitute 60% of the entire dataset. As for the third corpus, I extracted an equal sample of bare wh-phrases and which/what/whoseNP phrases from the spoken part of the corpus ...
Contextually-Dependent Lexical Semantics
... What emerges very clearly from the recent work on the interface between lexical and nonlexical semantic information is that polysemy is not a single, monolithic phenomenon. Rather, it is the result of both compositional operations in the semantics [...] and of contextual effects, such as the structu ...
... What emerges very clearly from the recent work on the interface between lexical and nonlexical semantic information is that polysemy is not a single, monolithic phenomenon. Rather, it is the result of both compositional operations in the semantics [...] and of contextual effects, such as the structu ...
What`s X Doing Y? page 1 Revision of May 26, 1997 Grammatical
... actual constructs of a language (e.g., the class of English inverted clauses, including all of those in (1) above). Often a construction will specify something about a mother node and each of its daughters, including their linear order. Sometimes the construction will fail to give any information ab ...
... actual constructs of a language (e.g., the class of English inverted clauses, including all of those in (1) above). Often a construction will specify something about a mother node and each of its daughters, including their linear order. Sometimes the construction will fail to give any information ab ...
The get-unit in Corpora of Spontaneous and Non
... Indeed, both the USBoE and AMC6 data demonstrate that the resultative feature, the tendency to occur in negative contexts, and the causative meaning acquired by the NP-sentences can be applied to any structure related to get. Sections 3.1 and 3.2 will qualitatively and quantitatively demonstrate th ...
... Indeed, both the USBoE and AMC6 data demonstrate that the resultative feature, the tendency to occur in negative contexts, and the causative meaning acquired by the NP-sentences can be applied to any structure related to get. Sections 3.1 and 3.2 will qualitatively and quantitatively demonstrate th ...
Non-subject Arguments in Indonesian - ORB
... discussed in this thesis, who generously shared their time and knowledge with me. In particular, Umar Muslim was an endlessly patient teacher of both Indonesian and Javanese, and was always willing to share his own insights as a linguist. Katarina Sukamto, Eli Riharti, and Lalu Dasmara all also were ...
... discussed in this thesis, who generously shared their time and knowledge with me. In particular, Umar Muslim was an endlessly patient teacher of both Indonesian and Javanese, and was always willing to share his own insights as a linguist. Katarina Sukamto, Eli Riharti, and Lalu Dasmara all also were ...
Robust Handling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words in
... Coverage (using SVM-TK for top-10 verbs) . . . . . . . . . . . 110 ...
... Coverage (using SVM-TK for top-10 verbs) . . . . . . . . . . . 110 ...
Towards a null theory of the passive
... This operation demotes (existentially binds) the most prominent Theta-role that is not already demoted. The affix is morphologically specified for whether it forms verb stems or adjectival/participial stems which combine with a finite auxiliary to form a periphrastic passive. Thus, the grammar of a ...
... This operation demotes (existentially binds) the most prominent Theta-role that is not already demoted. The affix is morphologically specified for whether it forms verb stems or adjectival/participial stems which combine with a finite auxiliary to form a periphrastic passive. Thus, the grammar of a ...
DESIGNING SYNTACTIC REPRESENTATIONS FOR NLP: AN
... This dissertation is a study on the use of linguistic structure in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Specifically, it investigates how different ways of packaging syntactic information have consequences for goals such as representing linguistic properties, training statistical parsers, ...
... This dissertation is a study on the use of linguistic structure in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Specifically, it investigates how different ways of packaging syntactic information have consequences for goals such as representing linguistic properties, training statistical parsers, ...
THE POSITION OF THE VERB IN OLD ENGLISH RELATIVE
... work in cataloguing grammatical constructions throughout the history of English (1963) is helpful in showing the variety of changing structures, but is difficult to navigate because of its organization based on verbal valency in a construction. ...
... work in cataloguing grammatical constructions throughout the history of English (1963) is helpful in showing the variety of changing structures, but is difficult to navigate because of its organization based on verbal valency in a construction. ...
The Syntactic Location of Events
... Dutch language area. These patterns include a bare infinitive (as found in the standard Dutch absentive construction), a te-infinitive (as found in for instance the with-infinitive construction in the dialect of Wambeek), and a finite clause (as found in verbal collocations). A more general question ...
... Dutch language area. These patterns include a bare infinitive (as found in the standard Dutch absentive construction), a te-infinitive (as found in for instance the with-infinitive construction in the dialect of Wambeek), and a finite clause (as found in verbal collocations). A more general question ...
- Essex - Research Repository
... of ECA online texts that was built for the purpose of the current study using the Sketch Engine tool. These verbal complements are described and analysed within the principles of LFG syntactic theory, and represented in a grammar fragment implemented using the XLE tool. The analysis shows that both ...
... of ECA online texts that was built for the purpose of the current study using the Sketch Engine tool. These verbal complements are described and analysed within the principles of LFG syntactic theory, and represented in a grammar fragment implemented using the XLE tool. The analysis shows that both ...
Constructions and Result: English Phrasal Verbs as Analyses in
... is a meaningful part of the separated construction, the non-separated construction which occurs with those verbs that do not co-occur with the separated construction represents verbs which have a different basic syntactic structure than the separable phrasal verbs. I propose that the particles found ...
... is a meaningful part of the separated construction, the non-separated construction which occurs with those verbs that do not co-occur with the separated construction represents verbs which have a different basic syntactic structure than the separable phrasal verbs. I propose that the particles found ...
Linguistically Annotated Corpus as an Invaluable Resource for
... of multifarious linguistic phenomena, mostly concentrated on Czech but also in comparison with English, Russian or some other (mainly Slavonic) languages. The principles of FGD were formulated as a follow-up to the functional approach of the Prague School and with due respect to the strict methodolo ...
... of multifarious linguistic phenomena, mostly concentrated on Czech but also in comparison with English, Russian or some other (mainly Slavonic) languages. The principles of FGD were formulated as a follow-up to the functional approach of the Prague School and with due respect to the strict methodolo ...
Coordinating constructions in Fongbe with - Archipel
... Another difference between the clauses coordinated by b‡ or by bó lies in the fact that, when the two clauses are coordinated by b‡, the subject of the second conjunct clause must be overt, as in (5) and (7), and when the two clauses are coordinated by bó, the subject of the second conjunct must be ...
... Another difference between the clauses coordinated by b‡ or by bó lies in the fact that, when the two clauses are coordinated by b‡, the subject of the second conjunct clause must be overt, as in (5) and (7), and when the two clauses are coordinated by bó, the subject of the second conjunct must be ...
Inheritance and Complementation: A Case Study of Easy Adjectives
... Dan Flickinger and John Nerbonne ...
... Dan Flickinger and John Nerbonne ...