ASSIDUE Person prominence and relation prominence
... In the verbal strategy of E1.b – on the contrary – the participant clearly takes a salient syntactic position. Being represented as the subject, it is an obligatory part of the sentence. Fore- and backgrounding may take place with respect to all components of a situation and their syntactic represen ...
... In the verbal strategy of E1.b – on the contrary – the participant clearly takes a salient syntactic position. Being represented as the subject, it is an obligatory part of the sentence. Fore- and backgrounding may take place with respect to all components of a situation and their syntactic represen ...
Alexandra Anna Spalek Verb Meaning and Combinatory Semantics: A Corpus-Based Study of
... Even though it is an intuitive and perhaps obvious idea that composition leads to non-trivial semantic interactions between words, and these interactions affect the contents of predication, there has still been little work done on how verbs restrict their arguments and how flexible these restriction ...
... Even though it is an intuitive and perhaps obvious idea that composition leads to non-trivial semantic interactions between words, and these interactions affect the contents of predication, there has still been little work done on how verbs restrict their arguments and how flexible these restriction ...
T H E I N C E P... E D T O P I C S ...
... 19th century, was used as a name of a region in the central Ethiopian highlands).5 Until the reign of Haile Sellassie I, Amharic speakers used to identify themselves on a more local level, for example, as Gojjame ʽa person from Gojjamʼ (Meyer 2011a; 2011b; Lewis, Simons, & Fennig 2015) (see also Gir ...
... 19th century, was used as a name of a region in the central Ethiopian highlands).5 Until the reign of Haile Sellassie I, Amharic speakers used to identify themselves on a more local level, for example, as Gojjame ʽa person from Gojjamʼ (Meyer 2011a; 2011b; Lewis, Simons, & Fennig 2015) (see also Gir ...
sv-lncs
... tentative solution. In Czech WordNet we record aspect pairs (Perfective – Imperfective) associated with the individual verbs. The iterative verbs are obtained directly from Ajka through the respective derivational relation. The special case is the relation DERIVED which was introduced into EWN to ca ...
... tentative solution. In Czech WordNet we record aspect pairs (Perfective – Imperfective) associated with the individual verbs. The iterative verbs are obtained directly from Ajka through the respective derivational relation. The special case is the relation DERIVED which was introduced into EWN to ca ...
English Syntax: An Introduction
... and ellipsis, which we would otherwise be missed. From Chapter 9 through Chapter 12, the textbook discusses how to capture systematic relations between related constructions. Chapter 9 deals with the relationships between active and passive voice clauses. Studying this chapter, students will be able ...
... and ellipsis, which we would otherwise be missed. From Chapter 9 through Chapter 12, the textbook discusses how to capture systematic relations between related constructions. Chapter 9 deals with the relationships between active and passive voice clauses. Studying this chapter, students will be able ...
Passive Voice Constructions in Modern Irish
... specific, but human and animate. The second participant is specific but non-human and inanimate. The problem lies with a potential ambiguity in the clause, which is only removed by the insertion of é féin. A speaker uttering Tréigeadh an seanteampall ...
... specific, but human and animate. The second participant is specific but non-human and inanimate. The problem lies with a potential ambiguity in the clause, which is only removed by the insertion of é féin. A speaker uttering Tréigeadh an seanteampall ...
Any student of Russian as a foreign language has been faced with
... Biaspectual Verbs and Their Implications for the Category of Aspect in Russian Verbal aspect is one of the most unique characteristics of the Slavic languages, and one of the most difficult concepts for non-native speakers to grasp. Conceptualizing this category within Russian (and other Slavic lan ...
... Biaspectual Verbs and Their Implications for the Category of Aspect in Russian Verbal aspect is one of the most unique characteristics of the Slavic languages, and one of the most difficult concepts for non-native speakers to grasp. Conceptualizing this category within Russian (and other Slavic lan ...
Two sources of scalarity within the verb phrase
... Furthermore, note that the availability of the eventive reading corresponds with the availability of a telic interpretation of the sentences. Specifically, those sentences in (5) allow both the eventive and evaluative readings of half under their telic interpretations, but also have atelic readings ...
... Furthermore, note that the availability of the eventive reading corresponds with the availability of a telic interpretation of the sentences. Specifically, those sentences in (5) allow both the eventive and evaluative readings of half under their telic interpretations, but also have atelic readings ...
Dwnst_eff._pred_FG_CW_
... As Dik points out, it is the nature of the „Goal‟ argument (the role of the entity „affected or effected by the operation of some controller (Agent/Positioner) or Force‟) which determines here the telicity of the predicate paint,and this can be shown on the basis of the relevant tests for telicity. ...
... As Dik points out, it is the nature of the „Goal‟ argument (the role of the entity „affected or effected by the operation of some controller (Agent/Positioner) or Force‟) which determines here the telicity of the predicate paint,and this can be shown on the basis of the relevant tests for telicity. ...
Reciprocals in Yukaghir languages
... situation (‘A asked B to do something’ > ‘B did something for A’) usually prevails in the meaning of the corresponding reciprocal construction, so that my informants always preferred a translation like ‘A and B did something for each other’, rather than ‘A and B did something according to each other ...
... situation (‘A asked B to do something’ > ‘B did something for A’) usually prevails in the meaning of the corresponding reciprocal construction, so that my informants always preferred a translation like ‘A and B did something for each other’, rather than ‘A and B did something according to each other ...
Lecture Notes: Chapter 3 - Web Hosting at UMass Amherst
... The parse in (11a) is blocked by the Projection Principle, which requires that things in complement position be c-selected and θ-marked by the neighboring head. This doesn’t hold in (11a). I don’t know of anything in the literature that is explicitly designed to exclude (11b). What controls the dist ...
... The parse in (11a) is blocked by the Projection Principle, which requires that things in complement position be c-selected and θ-marked by the neighboring head. This doesn’t hold in (11a). I don’t know of anything in the literature that is explicitly designed to exclude (11b). What controls the dist ...
29. Frame Semantics Jean Mark Gawron San
... of linguistically significant primitives, and the lower case predicates (broken, ...
... of linguistically significant primitives, and the lower case predicates (broken, ...
9. Morphological Typology
... Morphology has for centuries been at the centre of the typology. Here we are introducing a quantitative (Chapter 9.1) and a qualitative dimension (Chapter 9.2) of morphological typology. ...
... Morphology has for centuries been at the centre of the typology. Here we are introducing a quantitative (Chapter 9.1) and a qualitative dimension (Chapter 9.2) of morphological typology. ...
The Syntax of Meteorology: The Linguistic Status of Variadic Functions
... will believe the indefinite claim (plausibly, the two are truth-conditionally equivalent), but this will be a metaphysical inference, as it were, not one encoded linguistically (cf., Recanati, 2010, p. 89). It suffices for now if weather reports are acknowledged to be uncontroversially definite on ...
... will believe the indefinite claim (plausibly, the two are truth-conditionally equivalent), but this will be a metaphysical inference, as it were, not one encoded linguistically (cf., Recanati, 2010, p. 89). It suffices for now if weather reports are acknowledged to be uncontroversially definite on ...
inquiries into the lexicon-syntax relations in basque
... which are formally reflexives (Mendikoetxea 1999) are treated as absolutive intransitive verbs in Basque borrowings, and he demonstrates that in fact, the tendency to use an ergative case marking with intransitive borrowed verbs (Sarasola 1979) is restricted to non-reflexive (most of the time agenti ...
... which are formally reflexives (Mendikoetxea 1999) are treated as absolutive intransitive verbs in Basque borrowings, and he demonstrates that in fact, the tendency to use an ergative case marking with intransitive borrowed verbs (Sarasola 1979) is restricted to non-reflexive (most of the time agenti ...
Form and Meaning in the Hebrew Verb
... The rest of my committee has been just as generous. From day one it was clear to me that I’d want to work with Stephanie Harves; in this I’m not much different than any other NYU-trained syntactician. Stephanie is an inspiring mentor, a prediction generating machine, a true syntactician, an invaluab ...
... The rest of my committee has been just as generous. From day one it was clear to me that I’d want to work with Stephanie Harves; in this I’m not much different than any other NYU-trained syntactician. Stephanie is an inspiring mentor, a prediction generating machine, a true syntactician, an invaluab ...
2. semantic features of the object
... common case or in the only form they have. As an example: “I know everyone here.” – here the object is a personal pronoun in the objective case. “He could not find his own keys, but he saw hers on the table. – here the object is a personal pronoun in the common case.” 3. A numeral form. For example: ...
... common case or in the only form they have. As an example: “I know everyone here.” – here the object is a personal pronoun in the objective case. “He could not find his own keys, but he saw hers on the table. – here the object is a personal pronoun in the common case.” 3. A numeral form. For example: ...
The Notion of Surface-Syntactic Relation Revisited
... from underlying DSynt-constructions by special rules (≈ ‘transformations’) and they do not possess ‘normal’ properties. Such is, for instance, the construction of the type Il est venu trois étudiants, lit. ‘There came three students’, produced by the impersonalization transformation from the DSynt-s ...
... from underlying DSynt-constructions by special rules (≈ ‘transformations’) and they do not possess ‘normal’ properties. Such is, for instance, the construction of the type Il est venu trois étudiants, lit. ‘There came three students’, produced by the impersonalization transformation from the DSynt-s ...
Particle verbs and benefactive double objects in English: high and
... However, with the particle verb, if the direct object is selected for by the small clause predicate, then we would expect the selectional restrictions on the object to be different than with the transitive, since the object here is selected by different elements.2 Second, and related to the first ob ...
... However, with the particle verb, if the direct object is selected for by the small clause predicate, then we would expect the selectional restrictions on the object to be different than with the transitive, since the object here is selected by different elements.2 Second, and related to the first ob ...
L100: Lecture 7, Compositional semantics
... λP[∀x[dog0 (x) =⇒ P(x)]] Semantically, every dog acts as a functor, with the intransitive verb as the argument: λP[∀x[dog0 (x) =⇒ P(x)]](λy [sleep(y )]) = ∀x[dog0 (x) =⇒ λy [sleep(y )](x)] = ∀x[dog0 (x) =⇒ sleep(x)] This is higher-order: we need higher-order logic to express the FOPC composition rul ...
... λP[∀x[dog0 (x) =⇒ P(x)]] Semantically, every dog acts as a functor, with the intransitive verb as the argument: λP[∀x[dog0 (x) =⇒ P(x)]](λy [sleep(y )]) = ∀x[dog0 (x) =⇒ λy [sleep(y )](x)] = ∀x[dog0 (x) =⇒ sleep(x)] This is higher-order: we need higher-order logic to express the FOPC composition rul ...
Lexical Nature of Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution
... ule (Forster, 1979 ; Seidenberg et al ., 1982) . However, this accontext can promote one meaning of the equibiased word, recount of context effects has also been called into question by sulting in a "selective access" pattern . Duffy et al . (1988) interpreted the data as evidence for a model in whi ...
... ule (Forster, 1979 ; Seidenberg et al ., 1982) . However, this accontext can promote one meaning of the equibiased word, recount of context effects has also been called into question by sulting in a "selective access" pattern . Duffy et al . (1988) interpreted the data as evidence for a model in whi ...
(Syntactic) Lexicon and Syntax: Insertion Conditions for Derivational
... be refined, so that a bar notation head XO empty at deep structure yields its selectional predominance to a filled yo sister (section 4). Once the appropriate modifications are in place, section 5 is devoted to, if I may cite the reviewer, "the order that the framework reveals and accounts for in wh ...
... be refined, so that a bar notation head XO empty at deep structure yields its selectional predominance to a filled yo sister (section 4). Once the appropriate modifications are in place, section 5 is devoted to, if I may cite the reviewer, "the order that the framework reveals and accounts for in wh ...
Slavic prefixes inside and outside VP
... As can be discerned from these examples, prefixes readily form idiosyncratic units with verbs, in fact more readily than prepositions, though they too can have idiosyncratic meanings in the context of individual nouns (e.g. in English on call, on time, in luck, at last, off base, under the weather, ...
... As can be discerned from these examples, prefixes readily form idiosyncratic units with verbs, in fact more readily than prepositions, though they too can have idiosyncratic meanings in the context of individual nouns (e.g. in English on call, on time, in luck, at last, off base, under the weather, ...
A Lexical Account of Sorani (Suleymaniye) Kurdish Prepositions
... Kurdish dialects have a rich class of prepositions and prepositional collocations with a complex syntactic behavior. This situation results from two factors. The first one involves the historical constitution of this class: the initial set of prepositions has progressively been enriched with element ...
... Kurdish dialects have a rich class of prepositions and prepositional collocations with a complex syntactic behavior. This situation results from two factors. The first one involves the historical constitution of this class: the initial set of prepositions has progressively been enriched with element ...
Baule SVCs: Two distinct varieties of missing objects.
... problem is, that the verbs klo, 'like', kpѐ 'hate', si 'know', sro 'fear', wun 'see', kan 'touch' also all require an overt object. These verbs do not have an affected object. In Larson (2002) I attempt a first characterization of the generalization that causes verbs to belong to one class or the ot ...
... problem is, that the verbs klo, 'like', kpѐ 'hate', si 'know', sro 'fear', wun 'see', kan 'touch' also all require an overt object. These verbs do not have an affected object. In Larson (2002) I attempt a first characterization of the generalization that causes verbs to belong to one class or the ot ...