Typological variation of the adjectival class
... Ask a layperson what they know about grammar and you are likely to get an answer that has something to do with parts of speech; ask a linguist what they know about parts of speech and the answer is quite likely to be much less enlightening. Parts of speech systems or, as I will refer to them here, l ...
... Ask a layperson what they know about grammar and you are likely to get an answer that has something to do with parts of speech; ask a linguist what they know about parts of speech and the answer is quite likely to be much less enlightening. Parts of speech systems or, as I will refer to them here, l ...
Exo-skeletal vs. endo-skeletal explanations
... More specifically, I will suggest that syntactic properties typically associated with listed items, notably argument structure and category type, are, in fact, properties of structures and not properties of the listed items themselves. While listed items may still convey an idea (e.g., potato is dis ...
... More specifically, I will suggest that syntactic properties typically associated with listed items, notably argument structure and category type, are, in fact, properties of structures and not properties of the listed items themselves. While listed items may still convey an idea (e.g., potato is dis ...
Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface
... cosubordination construction. The second observation is that plural marking in the presence of a reference phrase can be analysed as an agreement phenomenon. The paper ‘Degree Expressions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface’ by Jens Fleischhauer is concerned with verb gradation. The goal of the paper ...
... cosubordination construction. The second observation is that plural marking in the presence of a reference phrase can be analysed as an agreement phenomenon. The paper ‘Degree Expressions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface’ by Jens Fleischhauer is concerned with verb gradation. The goal of the paper ...
ASPECTS OF THE SEMANTICS OF THE AKAN
... In related meaning, ‘ase’ is emotively associated with the ‘core’ the ‘crust’ or ‘where the real or the basic thing is’. This sense is evident in such phrasal verbs as ‘te ase’ literally ‘to hear the bottom’ or ‘to hear the under part’. Thus, ‘te ase’ means to ‘hear’ or ‘know’ not just the topic or ...
... In related meaning, ‘ase’ is emotively associated with the ‘core’ the ‘crust’ or ‘where the real or the basic thing is’. This sense is evident in such phrasal verbs as ‘te ase’ literally ‘to hear the bottom’ or ‘to hear the under part’. Thus, ‘te ase’ means to ‘hear’ or ‘know’ not just the topic or ...
Reconsidering the Dative Shift Szabóné Papp Judit
... the participation of certain semantically delineated verb classes in the dative shift. It is also claimed by cognitive grammar that language would not be able to exist as a means of communication without metaphor and polysemy since the human brain would not be able to describe the infinite world wit ...
... the participation of certain semantically delineated verb classes in the dative shift. It is also claimed by cognitive grammar that language would not be able to exist as a means of communication without metaphor and polysemy since the human brain would not be able to describe the infinite world wit ...
An Open Toolkit for Automatic Machine Translation (Meta
... Asiya.pl -v -metaeval single king,orange sample.config will compute and print King and Orange scores for each metric in the default metric set. In order to compute correlation coefficients, human assessments must be provided using the ‘-assessments’ option followed by the name of the file containing ...
... Asiya.pl -v -metaeval single king,orange sample.config will compute and print King and Orange scores for each metric in the default metric set. In order to compute correlation coefficients, human assessments must be provided using the ‘-assessments’ option followed by the name of the file containing ...
Serial Verbs in Ibibio - KU ScholarWorks
... Notice that there are two verbs in the constructions above. The first two verbs combine to form complex verb which means ‘arrive’ in English. The second example forms a complex predicate meaning ‘cook and eat’. Both verbs share the same subject and same object. The constructions looked at in this pa ...
... Notice that there are two verbs in the constructions above. The first two verbs combine to form complex verb which means ‘arrive’ in English. The second example forms a complex predicate meaning ‘cook and eat’. Both verbs share the same subject and same object. The constructions looked at in this pa ...
Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives
... • the attributive/predicative distinction, dominating the current scholarship on the adjective, has virtually no semantic significance, thus essentially crushing any hope to derive meaning from deep syntactic analysis; • there is a significant gap in our knowledge about relations between truly relat ...
... • the attributive/predicative distinction, dominating the current scholarship on the adjective, has virtually no semantic significance, thus essentially crushing any hope to derive meaning from deep syntactic analysis; • there is a significant gap in our knowledge about relations between truly relat ...
Thesis - Archive ouverte UNIGE
... languages do not alternate while their counterparts in other languages do. The results of the study suggest that the property which underlies the variation is the likelihood of external causation. Events described by the alternating verbs are distributed on a scale of increasing likelihood for an ex ...
... languages do not alternate while their counterparts in other languages do. The results of the study suggest that the property which underlies the variation is the likelihood of external causation. Events described by the alternating verbs are distributed on a scale of increasing likelihood for an ex ...
The Development of Root Infinitives and Null Subjects in Child
... languages which allow null subjects and those that do not. Under her proposal, languages which store affixation in the lexical representation will allow null subjects while those in which affixation is generated by the rule base will not. The reasoning for this is as follows. If the affix is stored ...
... languages which allow null subjects and those that do not. Under her proposal, languages which store affixation in the lexical representation will allow null subjects while those in which affixation is generated by the rule base will not. The reasoning for this is as follows. If the affix is stored ...
Dynamics, causation, duration in the predicate
... languages do not alternate while their counterparts in other languages do. The results of the study suggest that the property which underlies the variation is the likelihood of external causation. Events described by the alternating verbs are distributed on a scale of increasing likelihood for an ex ...
... languages do not alternate while their counterparts in other languages do. The results of the study suggest that the property which underlies the variation is the likelihood of external causation. Events described by the alternating verbs are distributed on a scale of increasing likelihood for an ex ...
The neuter in Bantu A Systemic Functional analysis
... groups in which some or all functions, generally attributed to the neuter, are encoded by a different marker or another strategy in some languages. The last section of Part 2 (2.4) discusses which questions remain unanswered after an overview and theoretical description of the neuter based on (exam ...
... groups in which some or all functions, generally attributed to the neuter, are encoded by a different marker or another strategy in some languages. The last section of Part 2 (2.4) discusses which questions remain unanswered after an overview and theoretical description of the neuter based on (exam ...
English passive voice
... is formed periphrastically: the usual form uses the auxiliary verb be (or get) together with the past participle of the main verb. For example, Caesar was stabbed by Brutus uses the passive voice. The subject denotes the person (Caesar) affected by the action of the verb. The agent is expressed here ...
... is formed periphrastically: the usual form uses the auxiliary verb be (or get) together with the past participle of the main verb. For example, Caesar was stabbed by Brutus uses the passive voice. The subject denotes the person (Caesar) affected by the action of the verb. The agent is expressed here ...
English Object Alternations: A Unified Account
... lexicalization patterns of verbs of motion. Although the locative alternation, for instance, has been attested in languages from both sides of this divide (Kim 1999:133-140), there may nevertheless be some correlation. The limited literature on this topic suggests that for a particular alternation E ...
... lexicalization patterns of verbs of motion. Although the locative alternation, for instance, has been attested in languages from both sides of this divide (Kim 1999:133-140), there may nevertheless be some correlation. The limited literature on this topic suggests that for a particular alternation E ...
www.unige.ch
... examples could be built for attachments to the noun. (See examples 7a,b below.) Thus, PPs can not only vary depending on the site to which they attach in the structure, such as in example (1) above, but they can fulfill different functions in the sentence, such as in example (2). In principle, then, ...
... examples could be built for attachments to the noun. (See examples 7a,b below.) Thus, PPs can not only vary depending on the site to which they attach in the structure, such as in example (1) above, but they can fulfill different functions in the sentence, such as in example (2). In principle, then, ...
The Notion of Argument in Prepositional Phrase Attachment
... Consider benefactive constructions, such as the sentence below. (3) Darcy baked a cake for Elizabeth. In this case the for is a benefactive, hence an argument of the verb bake. However, the for-PP is optional; thus other non-argument PPs can occur in the same position. (4) Darcy baked a cake for 5 s ...
... Consider benefactive constructions, such as the sentence below. (3) Darcy baked a cake for Elizabeth. In this case the for is a benefactive, hence an argument of the verb bake. However, the for-PP is optional; thus other non-argument PPs can occur in the same position. (4) Darcy baked a cake for 5 s ...
Accusative Case-Assignment in Double Object Constructions in
... check its case features. First, the verb moves to AgrOP, then to Agro IOP and finally to v. In addition, the verb, following that manner, has multiple accusative case-assignment that is assigned to two different NPs , one is the indirect object whereas, the other is the direct object. To overcome th ...
... check its case features. First, the verb moves to AgrOP, then to Agro IOP and finally to v. In addition, the verb, following that manner, has multiple accusative case-assignment that is assigned to two different NPs , one is the indirect object whereas, the other is the direct object. To overcome th ...
Lexical Semantics and Irregular Inflection The Harvard community
... applied to the word as a whole, and instead the regular suffix is applied by default (Marcus et al., 1995; Pinker, 1999). The diagrams in (2) illustrate in simplified form the morphological structures for the kinds of verbs discussed so far. 2(a) and (b) show a pair of irregular words, rang and wrun ...
... applied to the word as a whole, and instead the regular suffix is applied by default (Marcus et al., 1995; Pinker, 1999). The diagrams in (2) illustrate in simplified form the morphological structures for the kinds of verbs discussed so far. 2(a) and (b) show a pair of irregular words, rang and wrun ...
Huang_Pinker_Lexical_Semantics
... applied to the word as a whole, and instead the regular suffix is applied by default (Marcus et al., 1995; Pinker, 1999). The diagrams in (2) illustrate in simplified form the morphological structures for the kinds of verbs discussed so far. 2(a) and (b) show a pair of irregular words, rang and wrun ...
... applied to the word as a whole, and instead the regular suffix is applied by default (Marcus et al., 1995; Pinker, 1999). The diagrams in (2) illustrate in simplified form the morphological structures for the kinds of verbs discussed so far. 2(a) and (b) show a pair of irregular words, rang and wrun ...
1 The syntax/morphology interface Heidi Harley, University of
... Introduction Morphological structure and syntactic structure are clearly mutually dependent. ...
... Introduction Morphological structure and syntactic structure are clearly mutually dependent. ...
Full Paper
... present DPs with the same theta role in different syntactic configurations using verbs with different voice morphology. Such Ss are theta equivalent in the way that actives and their passives are in English. In this article we provide an explicit means of deriving and interpreting such Ss proving th ...
... present DPs with the same theta role in different syntactic configurations using verbs with different voice morphology. Such Ss are theta equivalent in the way that actives and their passives are in English. In this article we provide an explicit means of deriving and interpreting such Ss proving th ...
Generating A Parsing Lexicon from an LCS-Based Lexicon
... of NP, AP, PP, FIN, INF, BARE, ING, WH, PREP, corresponding to noun phrases, adjective phrases, prepositional phrases, clauses beginning with “that”, infinitive clauses, bare infinitive clauses, “-ing” clauses, “wh” clauses and prepositions, respectively. Prepositional phrases may be made more speci ...
... of NP, AP, PP, FIN, INF, BARE, ING, WH, PREP, corresponding to noun phrases, adjective phrases, prepositional phrases, clauses beginning with “that”, infinitive clauses, bare infinitive clauses, “-ing” clauses, “wh” clauses and prepositions, respectively. Prepositional phrases may be made more speci ...
(Meta-)Evaluation Technical Manual - Asiya
... Asiya operates over predefined test suites, i.e., over fixed sets of translation test cases (King & Falkedal, 1990). A test case consists of a source segment, a set of candidate translations and a set of manually-produced reference translations. The utility of a test suite is intimately related to i ...
... Asiya operates over predefined test suites, i.e., over fixed sets of translation test cases (King & Falkedal, 1990). A test case consists of a source segment, a set of candidate translations and a set of manually-produced reference translations. The utility of a test suite is intimately related to i ...
SPLIT-INTRANSITIVITY IN SWAHILI AND HITTITE
... Much research on unaccusativity has been done over the past three-and-a-half decades since the formulation of the Unaccusative Hypothesis (Perlmutter 1978). Researchers have examined the semantics of intransitive verbs as well as their syntax to account for the classification of a verb as either una ...
... Much research on unaccusativity has been done over the past three-and-a-half decades since the formulation of the Unaccusative Hypothesis (Perlmutter 1978). Researchers have examined the semantics of intransitive verbs as well as their syntax to account for the classification of a verb as either una ...
