This paper presents the Lexicon-Grammar classification of Italian idioms that has been constructed on formal principles and, as such, can be exploited in information extraction. Among MWEs, idioms are those fixed constructions which are hard to automatically detect, given their syntactic flexibility and lexical variation. The syntactic properties of idioms have been formally represented and cod...

A Probabilistic Model of Early Argument Structure Acquisition Afra Alishahi Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2008 Developing computational algorithms that capture the complex structure of natural language is an open problem. In particular, learning the abstract properties of language only from usage data remains a challenge. In this dissertation...

Traditional Estonian dialect classifications are based on the phonology, morphology, and lexis, and there are very few studies about syntax available. The present paper is the first quantitative syntactic study of Estonian dialects. We concentrate on constructions consisting of finite and non-finite verbs, and we apply contemporary statistical methods to explore the syntactic variation. Our res...

This paper examines a specific kind of syntactic alternation in Cantonese, involving a single verb benefactive construction, and a serial verb benefactive construction. The former is a ditransitive construction with a single predicate and two contiguous objects (double object construction). The latter comprises a verbal complex of two transitive predicates with noncontiguous objects in a monocl...

This study aims at providing a unified account of the serial verb construction as a complex predicate in Mandarin Chinese. Adopting the assumption that complex predicates may be broadly viewed as syntactic complexity to present cognitively complex events (Givon, 2009), the proposal of this study may differ from most previous studies on the clear boundary of the Chinese serial verb construction....

This paper presents a comprehensive description of non-finite verbs in Assamese, language that belongs to the Indo-Aryan family. Non-finite exist multi-verb constructions, which include both single and multi-clausal constructions. In clauses, they occur with different auxiliaries carry various aspectual modal meanings. on other hand, dependent clauses mark syntactic relations have main clause. ...

This paper presents a lexical choice component for complex noun phrases. We rst explain why lexical choice for NPs deserves special attention within the standard pipeline architecture for a generator. The task of the lexical chooser for NPs is more complex than for clauses because the syntax of NPs is less understood than for clauses, and therefore, syntactic realization components, while they ...

this paper investigates the nature of absolutive case and the syntactic mechanisms underlying its licensing. to this end, two recent minimalist approaches to the syntactic derivation of ergative structure will be introduced. drawing on evidence from the syntactic derivation of clauses with intransitive complex predicates in kurdish, it will be established that the absolutive case is checked by ...

Abstract To clarify the role of prosodic phrasing in emergence phrase structure, it is necessary to be clear as how syntactic relates phrasing. The core proposal here that a distinction must made between two basic types constructions; namely, configurations for which part definition construction, and structure proper, independent This implies somewhat more complex view interface syntax prosody ...

To understand how daily usages can shape the gradual changes of both hěn, a prototypical intensifier in Mandarin Chinese, and the construction hěn X, the study aims to investigate the syntactic and semantic behaviors of hěn X constructions in spoken corpora. The conversational data from the NCCU Corpus of Spoken Chinese and a Taiwan Public Television show Bring Up Parents are extracted and anal...