PURPOSE Prior studies of discourse comprehension have concluded that the deficits of persons with aphasia (PWA) in syntactically based comprehension of sentences in isolation are not predictive of deficits in comprehension of sentences in discourse (Brookshire & Nicholas, 1984; Caplan & Evans, 1990). However, these studies used semantically constrained sentences in discourse, which do not requi...

Abstact. In modern grammars of Slavic languages, syntactically non-segmented word-combinations are not separated into a separate type, but represented in single list different types free word combinations. Today, it is important to understand the place grammatical system language. The purpose paper characterize basis valence word-combination as new type syntactic constructions.. New approaches ...

A new type of abstract automaton is introduced, and both formal and linguistic implications are discussed, most importantly a new possibility of proving certain formal properties of (natural) languages and their grammars (such as context-freeness) and of refinement of the Chomsky hierarchy.

This paper presents a uniform approach to data extraction from syntactically annotated corpora encoded in XML. XQuery, which incorporates XPath, has been designed as a query language for XML. The combination of XPath and XQuery offers flexibility and expressive power, while corpus specific functions can be added to reduce the complexity of individual extraction tasks. We illustrate our approach...

; This paper presents a query tool for syntacti-caUy ~.nnotated corpora. The query tool is developed to search the Verbmobil treebanks annotated at the University of Tfibingen. However , in principle it also can be adapted to other corpora such as the Negra Corpus, the Penn Treebank or the French treebank developed in Paris. The tool uses a query language that allows to search for tokens, synta...

Groenendijk and Stokhof (1984, 1996; Groenendijk 1999) provide a logically attractive theory of the semantics of natural language questions, commonly referred to as the partition theory. Two central notions in this theory are entailment between questions and answerhood. For example, the question Who is going to the party? entails the question Is John going to the party?, and John is going to th...