Infinitival constructions as in (2-b) are instances of non-coherent constructions. The infinitival complement forms an independent constituent which may be extraposed. It also forms a barrier for clause-bounded syntactic and semantic operations. Infinitival constructions as in (2-a) are instances of coherent constructions. The infinitival complement does not form an independent constituent, as ...

Light verb constructions (LVCs) are verb and noun combinations in which the verb has lost its meaning to some degree and the noun is used in one of its original senses. They often share their syntactic pattern with other constructions (e.g. verbobject pairs) thus LVC detection can be viewed as classifying certain syntactic patterns as light verb constructions or not. In this paper, we explore a...

Abstract Fake attributives in Chinese are the result of interaction between syntax and prosody. For syntactic reasons, certain objects complex verbal constructions quantifiers cannot be realized situ; but they can spelled out some roundabout ways, one which is to form fake through de -insertion. In forming process attributives, clitic plays an important role, -insertion frequently resorted faci...

We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms associated with processing light verb constructions such as "give a kiss". These constructions consist of a semantically underspecified light verb ("give") and an event nominal that contributes most of the meaning and also activates an argument structure of its own ("kiss"). This creates a mismatch between the ...

In a local derivational (phase-based) approach to syntax, instances of resumption in German (longdistance) relativization constructions with an empty operator and a complementizer wo (‘where’) must be analyzed in terms of movement. Against this background, these constructions raise three problems for syntactic analysis: (i) a locality (backtracking) problem (‘How can the information that a resu...

In the present article the syntactic approach to construction of generic models generalizing known semantic one is described. It is established a sufficient condition of homogeneity of generic model.It is shown that at the syntactic approach any countable homogeneous model is generic. Criterions and a sufficient condition of saturation of generic models formed at the syntactic way of its constr...

Syntactic Variation of Support Verb Constructions We report experiments about the syntactic variations of support verb constructions, a special type ofmultiword expressions (MWEs) containing predicative nouns. In these expressions, the noun can oc-cur with or without the verb, with no clear-cut semantic difference. We extracted from a large Frenchcorpus a set of examples of the two ...

Automatic dependency annotations have been used in all kinds of language applications. However, there has been much less exploitation of dependency annotations for the linguistic description of language varieties. This paper presents an attempt to employ dependency annotations for describing style. We argue that for this purpose, linear n-grams (that follow the text’s surface) alone do not appr...

In this paper, I present syntactic evidence from copular constructions in Irish to show that there are two distinct semantic "be" constructions: a predicative construction and an equative one. The task of isolating different semantic structures is made especially difficult by virtue of the fact that we can have no direct evidence for them. All semantic structure is mediated through syntactic ph...

This paper presents the syntactic annotation level of a project aimed at providing a small dialog corpus with multiple levels of annotation. The syntactic annotation is based on dependency syntax. We outline the reasons for choosing dependency, and show the syntactic annotation for some constructions. We finish by describing the current state of the project.