This paper adopts a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis approach to explore the pragmatics of lexical categories in courtroom discourse. More specifically, this probes extent which interlocutors employ particular lexemes achieve specific pragmatic purposes, which, turn, contributes understanding way language operates effectively within legal settings. The data used is taken from testimo...

In this paper, we nd the relationships between module contractibility of aBanach algebra and its ideals. We also prove that module contractibility ofa Banach algebra is equivalent to module contractibility of its module uniti-zation. Finally, we show that when a maximal group homomorphic image ofan inverse semigroup S with the set of idempotents E is nite, the moduleprojective tensor product l1...

In this paper , we evaluate a two-pass parsing strategy proposed for the so-called ' lexicalized' grammar. In ' lexicalized' grammars (Schabes, Abeill$ and Joshi, 1988), each elementary structure is systematical ly associated with a lexical i tem called anchor. These structures specify extended domains of locality (as compared to CFGs) over which constraints can be stated. The 'g rammar ' consi...

The computational lexicalization of a grammar is the optimization of the links between lexicalized rules and lexical items in order to improve the quality of the bottom-up filtering during parsing. This problem is N P-comple te and untractable on large grammars. An approximation algorithm is presented. The quality of the suboptimal solution is evaluated on real-world grammars as well as on rand...

Recently, it was shown (KUHLMANN, SATTA: Tree-adjoining grammars are not closed under strong lexicalization. Comput. Linguist., 2012) that finitely ambiguous tree adjoining grammars cannot be transformed into a normal form (preserving the generated tree language), in which each production contains a lexical symbol. A more powerful model, the simple context-free tree grammar, admits such a norma...

This paper is an historical study of the formation of the Chinese resultative verb compounds (RVCs) that signal a resultant state of a non-agent with a V1V2 predicate. Metaphorization and metonymization, understood within the theoretical framework of Brinton & Traugott (2005), are proposed to have played a most important role in the formation of the RVC in Middle Chinese. Many scholars noted (W...

We propose a general lexicalization model which accounts for how lexical units are selected and introduced in linguistic utterances during language generation. This model aims at “naturalness” by being based on actual lexical knowledge used in speech; consequently, it should be compatible with standard patterns of behavior shown by humans when they speak (flexibility in computing both content a...

The concept of Linked Data has attracted increased interest in recent times due to its free and open availability and the sheer of volume. We present a framework to generate patterns which can be used to lexicalize Linked Data. We use DBpedia as the Linked Data resource which is one of the most comprehensive and fastest growing Linked Data resource available for free. The framework incorporates...

background: cervical cancer has been shown to be highly associated with human papillomavirus (hpv) infection. the viral oncogenes e6 and e7 are constantly expressed by the tumor cells and are therefore potent targets for therapeutic genetic vaccination. in the present study, it was investigated the potential effect of hpv-16 e6, e7 and l1 co-administration to activate specific cytotoxic t lymph...