Exo-skeletal vs. endo-skeletal explanations
... such a view, formal properties are deterministically projected from a listed item with fully articulated lexico-semantics, syntactic and morphological properties. Such properties include not just argument structure, but also syntactic category, syntactic projection environment, and morphological inf ...
... such a view, formal properties are deterministically projected from a listed item with fully articulated lexico-semantics, syntactic and morphological properties. Such properties include not just argument structure, but also syntactic category, syntactic projection environment, and morphological inf ...
Suspension Across Domains - Jonathan Bobaljik
... allowed since it involves a feature licensing relation between an interrogative C and a wh-phrase. ...
... allowed since it involves a feature licensing relation between an interrogative C and a wh-phrase. ...
Context-Free Grammars for English
... single NP arg within the VP as an argument, and a single NP arg as the subject. ...
... single NP arg within the VP as an argument, and a single NP arg as the subject. ...
Here - Ohlone - University of California, Santa Cruz
... of serialization and flattening that make it possible to span the divide between the two worlds. In doing this, we study something which is of central importance to the question of what language is and how it might have emerged in our species. Establishing sequential order is, obviously, a key part o ...
... of serialization and flattening that make it possible to span the divide between the two worlds. In doing this, we study something which is of central importance to the question of what language is and how it might have emerged in our species. Establishing sequential order is, obviously, a key part o ...
Combinatorial structures and processing in Neural Blackboard
... arbitrary binding of words in (potentially novel) sentence structures or even new words in sentence structures, as in Figure 2. In each of these cases, the behavior of answering a question (probing for relation information or binding) depends on connecting sensory information to motor activation, in ...
... arbitrary binding of words in (potentially novel) sentence structures or even new words in sentence structures, as in Figure 2. In each of these cases, the behavior of answering a question (probing for relation information or binding) depends on connecting sensory information to motor activation, in ...
Scrambling and Processing: Dependencies
... problem. The second approach advocated by cognitive science suggests that ideally we would study every construction in a language from both linguistic and psycholinguistic points of view. The first approach is firmly grounded in linguistics. Syntacticians are interested in the derivation of sentence ...
... problem. The second approach advocated by cognitive science suggests that ideally we would study every construction in a language from both linguistic and psycholinguistic points of view. The first approach is firmly grounded in linguistics. Syntacticians are interested in the derivation of sentence ...
on some basic issues of the theory of functional sentence
... givenness and a high degree with newness, the question arises as to whether there are intermediate degrees of given and new. The implication would be that the speaker can assume something to be in the addressee's consciousness to a greater or lesser degree. This psychological implication would be of ...
... givenness and a high degree with newness, the question arises as to whether there are intermediate degrees of given and new. The implication would be that the speaker can assume something to be in the addressee's consciousness to a greater or lesser degree. This psychological implication would be of ...
Adversative conjunction choice in Russian ( no, da, odnako
... type of the following constituent, or both. If the two constituents were always of the same type, there would be no way to distinguish between the three possibilities. The existence of asymmetric constructions like the ones in (7)–(11) allows us to investigate this question. In particular, if we fin ...
... type of the following constituent, or both. If the two constituents were always of the same type, there would be no way to distinguish between the three possibilities. The existence of asymmetric constructions like the ones in (7)–(11) allows us to investigate this question. In particular, if we fin ...
Participles, gerunds and syntactic categories
... Within LFG, there is no concept of intermediate categories: there is a finite inventory of distinct lexical categories, and every lexical word must belong to exactly one category.2 The different lexical categories are not unrelated; for example, Bresnan et al. (2016, 103) propose that the major lexi ...
... Within LFG, there is no concept of intermediate categories: there is a finite inventory of distinct lexical categories, and every lexical word must belong to exactly one category.2 The different lexical categories are not unrelated; for example, Bresnan et al. (2016, 103) propose that the major lexi ...
additive conjunction choice in english children short stories
... one word has many meanings, but when the word is used in a sentence, we will know the meaning of the word clearly. Intuitively, semantic interpretation should help syntactic disambiguation, and joint syntactic– semantic analysis has a long tradition in linguistic theory. In linguistics, semantic ana ...
... one word has many meanings, but when the word is used in a sentence, we will know the meaning of the word clearly. Intuitively, semantic interpretation should help syntactic disambiguation, and joint syntactic– semantic analysis has a long tradition in linguistic theory. In linguistics, semantic ana ...
pros sign 4-10
... Phonologically, parentheticals are characterized by the so-called comma-intonation. Simplifying a quite complex and interesting discussion on this issue, such a typical prosodic pattern is mainly identified by means of pauses on the right and on the left of the supplement. I will briefly add a few w ...
... Phonologically, parentheticals are characterized by the so-called comma-intonation. Simplifying a quite complex and interesting discussion on this issue, such a typical prosodic pattern is mainly identified by means of pauses on the right and on the left of the supplement. I will briefly add a few w ...
Interplay between Syntax and Semantics during Sentence
... of words (see Vosse & Kempen, 2000 for a computational model). The approach taken here was to exploit the fact that different types of electrophysiological brain activity (i.e., event-related brain potentials [ERPs]) have been shown to honor the distinction between the processing of syntactic and se ...
... of words (see Vosse & Kempen, 2000 for a computational model). The approach taken here was to exploit the fact that different types of electrophysiological brain activity (i.e., event-related brain potentials [ERPs]) have been shown to honor the distinction between the processing of syntactic and se ...
Reaching agreement as a core syntactic process
... Both linguistic theory and psycholinguistic research have considered the issue of agreement in great detail. In linguistics, the study of grammatical constraints on agreement has uncovered highly specific evidence for syntactic structure, such that agreement is viewed as ‘a key diagnostic in the syn ...
... Both linguistic theory and psycholinguistic research have considered the issue of agreement in great detail. In linguistics, the study of grammatical constraints on agreement has uncovered highly specific evidence for syntactic structure, such that agreement is viewed as ‘a key diagnostic in the syn ...
1 - ZiyoNET
... The parts of speech perform special functions to one another in producing sentence in regard to their mutual relationships. The first major sentence element is the subject. A subject may be composed of a word, a phrase, or a clause (the latter is sometimes referred to as a complex). The second major ...
... The parts of speech perform special functions to one another in producing sentence in regard to their mutual relationships. The first major sentence element is the subject. A subject may be composed of a word, a phrase, or a clause (the latter is sometimes referred to as a complex). The second major ...
A Realistic Transformational Grammar
... and units into distinct processing operations and informational units in such a way that different rule types of the grammar are associated with different processing functions . If distinct grammatical rules were not distinguished in a psychological model under some realization mapping, the grammati ...
... and units into distinct processing operations and informational units in such a way that different rule types of the grammar are associated with different processing functions . If distinct grammatical rules were not distinguished in a psychological model under some realization mapping, the grammati ...
What is Syntax? - Columbia University
... • The notion of context in CFGs has nothing to do with the ordinary meaning of the word context in language • All it really means is that the non-terminal on the left-hand side of a rule is out there all by itself (free of context) ...
... • The notion of context in CFGs has nothing to do with the ordinary meaning of the word context in language • All it really means is that the non-terminal on the left-hand side of a rule is out there all by itself (free of context) ...
FreDist : Automatic construction of distributional thesauri for
... Additionally, lexical terms containing numbers were replaced with a num token. Primary lexical terms above the frequency threshold totaled 4,126 adjectives, 802 adverbs, 10,997 common nouns, and 3,562 verbs. Bigram context relations were generated in a straightforward manner. For each token of a pri ...
... Additionally, lexical terms containing numbers were replaced with a num token. Primary lexical terms above the frequency threshold totaled 4,126 adjectives, 802 adverbs, 10,997 common nouns, and 3,562 verbs. Bigram context relations were generated in a straightforward manner. For each token of a pri ...
Dependency in Linguistic Description
... is a VERY HIGH DEGREE OF ORGANIZATION of utterances. (Nothing astonishing, if we remember that (information) means, strictly speaking, (degree of organization).) More specifically, all the units which constitute the utterance—let us limit ourselves here, for simplicity's sake, to wordforms— are arra ...
... is a VERY HIGH DEGREE OF ORGANIZATION of utterances. (Nothing astonishing, if we remember that (information) means, strictly speaking, (degree of organization).) More specifically, all the units which constitute the utterance—let us limit ourselves here, for simplicity's sake, to wordforms— are arra ...
ling411-08 - Rice University
... It’s not because the connecting nerve fibers (axons) are themselves bidirectional It’s because we find different but roughly parallel fibers going in opposite directions ...
... It’s not because the connecting nerve fibers (axons) are themselves bidirectional It’s because we find different but roughly parallel fibers going in opposite directions ...
A multi-modular approach to gradual change in
... Since the distribution of a given word or morpheme may be independently controlled by syntax and semantics, a multi-modular approach allows us to show that most of the effects of decategorialization in our data are due to semantic change and follow directly from constraints within the semantic system ...
... Since the distribution of a given word or morpheme may be independently controlled by syntax and semantics, a multi-modular approach allows us to show that most of the effects of decategorialization in our data are due to semantic change and follow directly from constraints within the semantic system ...
Catenae in Morphology
... dependency into morphology. The motivation for doing so is clear: the complexity of word structure in languages differs, and if dependency grammar desires to say something enlightening about languages with different word structure, then it must have the means to do so. Heringer (1970: 96f) provided ...
... dependency into morphology. The motivation for doing so is clear: the complexity of word structure in languages differs, and if dependency grammar desires to say something enlightening about languages with different word structure, then it must have the means to do so. Heringer (1970: 96f) provided ...
Topics in English Syntax
... • Syntax: the branch of grammar dealing with the organization of words into larger structures such as phrases and sentences; the study of sentence structure. • Three basic assumptions: – Sentences have parts which may themselves have parts. – The parts of sentences belong to a limited range of types ...
... • Syntax: the branch of grammar dealing with the organization of words into larger structures such as phrases and sentences; the study of sentence structure. • Three basic assumptions: – Sentences have parts which may themselves have parts. – The parts of sentences belong to a limited range of types ...
What is Syntax?
... particular): approach in which a linguistic theory enumerates all possible strings/structures in a language (=competence) • Chomskyan theories do not really use formal devices – they use CFG + informally defined transformations ...
... particular): approach in which a linguistic theory enumerates all possible strings/structures in a language (=competence) • Chomskyan theories do not really use formal devices – they use CFG + informally defined transformations ...
A Distributed Morphology-based analysis of Japanese
... pick any object (or internal argument) That is +human, like Subject Honorification. In fact, pragmatically Humbling is almost a mirror image of Honorification. Humbling is strongly associated with 1st person; Honorification can never be 1st person. The one syntactic mandate that applies to both is t ...
... pick any object (or internal argument) That is +human, like Subject Honorification. In fact, pragmatically Humbling is almost a mirror image of Honorification. Humbling is strongly associated with 1st person; Honorification can never be 1st person. The one syntactic mandate that applies to both is t ...
Lingua - ScienceDirect
... of incremental processing. It also constitutes a basic architectural assumption of the eADM, which will be introduced briefly in the next section. 2.2. Basic architectural assumptions of the extended Argument Dependency Model (eADM) The extended Argument Dependency Model (eADM; Bornkessel and Schles ...
... of incremental processing. It also constitutes a basic architectural assumption of the eADM, which will be introduced briefly in the next section. 2.2. Basic architectural assumptions of the extended Argument Dependency Model (eADM) The extended Argument Dependency Model (eADM; Bornkessel and Schles ...