Hindi Aspectual Complex Predicates

Urdu/Hindi Motion Verbs and Their Implementation in a Lexical Resource

A central task of natural language processing is to find a way of answering the question Who did what to whom, how, when and where? with automatic means. This requires insights on how a language realizes events and the participants that partake in them and how this information can be encoded in a humanas well as machine-readable way. In this thesis, I investigate the ways that the spatial notio...

Hindi Aspectual Verb Complexes

One of the goals of syntax is to determine how much languages do vary, in the hope to be able to make hypothesis about how much natural languages can vary. The syntax of aspect is a fertile ground for comparing approaches to variation in the interface between syntax and semantics. Cinque (1999) is a leading example of a research program that attempts to show that at a particular level of repres...

Complex Aspectual Structure in Hindi/Urdu

The Felicity of Aspectual For-Phrases - Part 2: Incremental Homogeneity

This paper is the second in a series of two papers presenting recent developments concerning the interaction between aspectual classes of predicates and the semantics of aspectual for-phrases. Aspectual for-phrases must modify predicates which are homogeneous meaning that the predicate spreads appropriately to subintervals. For eventive predicates the relevant notion of homogeneity should be a ...

Phrasal Predicates How N Combines with V in Hindi/urdu

phrase with a single argument structure. Complex predicates of this sort are found in Japanese, Turkish, and Persian, among many others. Since complex predicates are so generally available, they must be the result of very general linguistic processes, which I will propose are part of syntax and the syntax/interpretative interface, or logical form. In this paper I consider two kinds of syntactic...