Inherent Case is understood as Case, the assignment of which has to be accompanied by theta-assignment (Chomsky 1995). While Nominative on the subject and Accusative on the direct object are typical representatives of structural Case, Genitive or Dative are usually taken as representatives of inherent Case. In this paper I first review the properties of ditransitive verbs in Czech explored in D...

In order to make examples morphologically transparent, we have transcribed certain vowels separately between morpheme boundaries even though some of these vowels are elided or coalesced in speech. Our segmental transcriptions follow Mugane 1996 and 1997. The seven vowels transcribed i, ı̃, e, a, o ũ, u have the approximate respective values [i, e, ε, a, , o, u], each of which can be short or lon...

1.1 Perfect auxiliary selection Like unergatives (1a), MVs select haben as an auxiliary in perfect formation (1b)-(1d). (1) a. Peter Peter hat have.AUX gesungen. sing.PRES.PERF b. Die the Tablette pill hat have.AUX gewirkt. take effect.PRES.PERF c. Die the Wunde wound hat have.AUX geblutet. bleed.PRES.PERF d. Das the Uran uran hat have.AUX gestrahlt. radiate.PRES.PERF 1.2 Impersonal Passive Unl...

In languages like German or Dutch, the distinction between unergative and unaccusative verbs is borne out by a number of syntactic tests. Unergative verbs appear in impersonal passives while unaccusative verbs do not (cf. Perlmutter (1978)). Unergative verbs select the perfect auxiliary haben/hebben (to have) while unaccusative verbs select sein/zijn (to be) (cf. Hoekstra (1984)). Unaccusative ...

The article contributes to the typology of structural factors constraining argument realization in nominalizations, focussing on English –er-nominals. It first reappraises the conclusions of earlier studies on when –er-nominals can express arguments. Derivations disallowing argument linking are treated as semantically and structurally parallel to nominal compounds, and their argument-structural...

In this study, I revisit the claim that nominals denoting complex events must derive from discernible verbal stems and be headed by an overt nominalizer. show Turkish has a set of nominals, crucially foreign origin, which provides counter-evidence to both claims. From perspective grammar, they are morphologically noncompositional, manifesting neither detectable basis nor nominalizer although ca...

This paper proposes an approach to sentencelevel paraphrase identification by text canonicalization. The source sentence pairs are first converted into surface text that approximates canonical forms. A decision tree learning module which employs simple lexical matching features then takes the output canonicalized texts as its input for a supervised learning process. Experiments on the Microsoft...

1Universität Stuttgart, 2Columbia University, 3University of Southern California Abstract We investigate formalisms for capturing the relation between semantic graphs and English strings. Semantic graph corpora have spurred recent interest in graph transduction formalisms, but it is not yet clear whether such formalisms are a good fit for natural language data—in particular, for describing how ...

This paper explores a novel analysis of adjectives in the comparative and the positive based on the notion of a trope, rather than the notion of a degree. Tropes are particularized properties, concrete manifestations of properties in individuals. The point of departure is that a sentence like John is happier than Mary is intuitively equivalent to ‘John’s happiness exceeds Mary’s happiness’, a s...

The discovery of semantic relations in text plays an important role in many NLP applications. This paper presents a method for the automatic classification of semantic relations in nominalized noun phrases. Nominalizations represent a subclass of NP constructions in which either the head or the modifier noun is derived from a verb while the other noun is an argument of this verb. Especially des...