Syntactic parsers and generators need highquality grammars of coordination and coordinate ellipsis—structures that occur very frequently but are much less well understood theoretically than many other domains of grammar. Modern grammars of coordinate ellipsis are based nearly exclusively on linguistic judgments (intuitions). The extent to which grammar rules based on this type of empirical evid...

This paper describes an ongoing Portuguese Language grammar checker project, called CoGrOO1-Corretor Gramatical para OpenOffice (Grammar Checker for OpenOffice), based on CETENFOLHA, a Brazilian Portuguese morphosyntactic annotated Corpus. Two of its features are highlighted: hybrid architecture, mixing rules and statistics; free software project. This project aims at checking grammatical error...

Though languages show rich variation in the clausal embedding strategies employed attitude reports, most mainstream formal semantic theories of attitudes assume that complement an verb contributes at least a proposition to semantics. The goal this paper is contribute growing cross-linguistic perspective by providing analyses for two found with verbs Oromo (Cushitic): verbal nominalization, and ...

This article presents a three steps algorithm for morphological disambiguation between the definite article and the personal pronoun in French language. Tested accuracy in a large untagged corpora exceeds 98% with less than 1% of error. Our method has been also experimented on unlabeled Greek corpora and the results prove the system’s portability to other languages with similar structure. Not a...

Abstract This article re-evaluates the status of Stative paradigm in Akkadian, language’s only exclusively suffixing paradigm, and argues favour a verbal classification on basis possible medialisation its attested forms. The denotes state persisting following perfective-associated event. Thereby, two kinds Statives are known: nominal Stative. While root is mapped onto Verbal Adjectival base tem...

English provides several distinct mechanisms by which verbs may be nominalized, as illustrated in (1-2). The form electing in (1a) is sometimes termed the “verbal” gerund, while the perfectly homophonous form in (1b) is termed the “nominal” gerund. Nominal gerunds in English are distinguished from verbal gerunds syntactically, by their inability to assign objective case to an object (hence the ...

This paper presents examples in which hlk ‘walk, go’ and ʔth ‘come’ appear multi-verb constructions conforming to the definition of asymmetrical serial verb (SVCs). In these constructions, do not be used with their concrete lexical senses as verbs constituting predicate a separate clause. Rather, they are found V1 position minor contributing an aspectual nuance immediacy major V2 position. Broa...

Elliptical constructions can help to avoid repetition of identical constituents during natural-language generation. From grammar books, it is not easy to extract executable rules for ellipsis—in our case in Russian. Therefore we follow a different strategy. We test the accuracy of a rule set that has been evaluated for the two Germanic languages, Dutch and German, and the two Finno-Ugric langua...

Despite the body of research on textbook evaluation from the discourse analysis perspective, cohesive devices have rarely been analyzed in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) textbooks. The acquisition and use of cohesive devices is inherent to naturalistic communication, including business interactions. Hence, L2 learners of business English should be exposed to these devices through cohesion-...