One of the functions of everyday human language is to communicate meaning. Thus, when one hears or reads the sentence, "John gave a book to Mary," some aspect of an event concerning the transfer of possession of a book from John to Mary is (hopefully) transmitted. One theoretical approach to language referred to as construction grammar emphasizes this link between sentence structure and meaning...

Embodied approaches to comprehension (Narayanan 1997; Zwaan 1999) propose that understanding language entails performing mental simulations of its content. The evidence, however, is mixed. Action-sentence Compatibility Effect studies (Glenberg and Kaschak 2002) report mental simulation of motor actions during processing of motion language. But the same studies find no evidence that language com...

A distance function is proposed that maps pairs of strings to the real numbers. It has been shown that given suitable constraints the function is a metric over the free monoid generated from a set of gr~um~ matical symbols. The necessary constraints modify the metric so that it maps pairs of strings to a lattice of real numbers. Thus for each string the metric defines a countable set of nested ...

This work describes the implementation of a meta-modeling approach to morphologically marked tense and aspect within the LinGO Grammar Matrix customization system. The Matrix customization system creates a small hpsg grammar for a language based on answers to questions about particular linguistic phenomena. In the original system, these answers indicated a choice of pre-determined analyses of t...

This paper discusses the issue of irrelevance aspect Polish verb. In specifi c contexts, grammatical category aspect, being obligatory in language, is fact redundant. The identifi cation such contexts (and hence review most important current observations and convictions this respect), attempt at ordering describing them enabled systematic material research based on a (Polish–German German–Polis...

Abstract The study examines the role played by English and Romance languages (L2s) when learning grammatical aspect in Italian as additional language (Ln). Swedish university students of ( n = 34), divided according to knowledge a L2 aspectual knowledge, completed an interpretation task contrast Italian. Eight native speakers served control group. findings showed that high exerted differential ...

The marriage of linguistic theory and language acquisition is approaching its golden anniversary. In her 1966 dissertation Ursula Bellugi provided a transformational analysis of the development of negation in English-speaking children. On the model of the Standard Theory of Generative Grammar (Chomsky 1965), she proposed a system of phrase structure and transformational rules to describe the va...

In contemporary aspectological researches, especially in those within the domain of category aspect verb lexemes formalized as a binary category, there are more and researches oriented to empirical verification claims about its non nature. This paper also has such orientation, precisely on example držati, reflexive form držati se, grammatical derivatives (e.g. udržati, sadrža(va)ti, podržati, p...

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 This paper shows the linguistic aspect in term of discourse analysis lyrics song. Those aspects are cohesion device and grammatical cohesion. Cohesion devices divided into two descriptions, those are; lexical devices. Grammatical contains reference, ellipsis, substitution, conjunction while collocation reiteration. research analyzes from soloist band namely Alec Benjamin entitle ...