This paper deals with the translation of English past progressive into Arabic by examining both theoretical and textual considerations. First, it shows how aspect formally corresponds to auxiliary verb كان ‘was’ plus simple present (SP) form or active particle (AP) form. Second, is argued that choice between SP AP subject several grammatical semantic constraints on verbs: [+/- transitive], teli...

This work examines the image-forming verbs of Yakut and Tyvan languages, selected from olonkho Dyyray Bogatyr, The Son Horse by I.I. Burnashev heroic epic Khunan Khara Chanchy-Hoo Oorzhak in order to identify semantic equivalents functional features texts, which will contribute definition genetic communities differences between Turkic languages tradition. In analyzing material, method continuou...

In Italian, there are some verbs which act as a class with respect to certain phenomena such as clitic climbing, long NP-movement, tough constructions and auxiliary selection. They are usually called restructuring verbs after Rizzi (1982) who proposed a restructuring rule in order to account for their properties. In the rst part of this paper, I will propose an analysis of these verbs in terms ...

This contribution delivers two messages: 1) that the tests for constituents that are widely employed in linguistics and syntax textbooks are more congruent with dependency-based syntax than with constituency-based syntax and 2) that these same tests support the conventional analysis of function words, that is, the analysis that takes most function words (auxiliary verbs, adpositions, subordinat...

This paper present the treatment of prepositions and conjunctionsinnatural languageinterfacestodatabases(NLIDB)thatallowsbetter translation of queries expressed in natural language into formal languages. Prepositions and conjunctionsweren’t sufficiently studied for their usage in NLIDBs,becausemostoftheNLIDBsjust lookforkeywordsinthesentences and focus their analysis on nouns and verbs getting ...

Athapaskan languages comprise one of the largest, most geographically distributed, and most culturally diverse families in North America. Nevertheless, each daughter language features a set of classificatory verb stems which, semantically, focus less on signaling a relational predication than on some physical attribute of a prominent relational participant. Consequently, most consumption expres...

Event classification is one of the most crucial tasks in lexical semantic representation. Traditionally, researchers regarded process and state as two top level events and discriminated them by semantic and syntactic characteristics. In this paper, we add cause-result relativity as an auxiliary criterion to discriminate between process and state by structuring about 40,000 Chinese verbs to the ...

1.INTRODUCTION Transitivity is an ambiguous term. It can refer to the argument structure of a predicate, distingishing monovalent verbs with a single argument, from polyvalent verbs which obligatorily or optionally assign theta roles to more than one argument It can also refer to morphological and syntactic properties, such as the choice of case and the selection of auxiliary verbs. Ideally, th...

This paper presents an analysis on the functions carried by phrase final tones in turn-taking and dialog acts, taking into account linguistic information about the part of speech (particles and auxiliary verbs) attributed to the morphemes at phrase finals. Natural conversational speech data are segmented in inter-pause units, and each utterance unit is arranged according to the phrase final mor...