Most contemporary theories of grammar assume a general organization in which elementary constituents are drawn from a place called the " Lexicon " for composition in the syntax, as in (1). (1) STUFF Syntax Lexicon Sound Meaning (Pure) Lexicon: place from which items are drawn for the syntax; the source of items used by the computational system of syntax While it is uncontroversial that our know...

There is a certain consensus on some defining features of collocations (they are frequent, recurrent, conventional, institutionalized, etc.), but there is not much agreement on other characteristics, for example whether or not they constitute binary lexical relations, and, crucially, whether they are arbitrary, and must be stipulated, or should instead be deduced or inferred. I will argue that ...

This article presents the results we obtained on a complex annotation task (that of dependency syntax) using a specifically designed Game with a Purpose, ZombiLingo.1 We show that with suitable mechanisms (decomposition of the task, training of the players and regular control of the annotation quality during the game), it is possible to obtain annotations whose quality is significantly higher t...

The current PASSAGE syntactic representation is the result of 9 years of constant evolution with the aim of providing a common ground for evaluating parsers of French whatever their type and supporting theory. In this paper we present the latest developments concerning the formalism and show first through a review of basic linguistic phenomena that it is a plausible minimal common ground for re...

The rise of digital and visual communication has brought an increased focus to the places that people occupy. While are created through various meaning-making processes, one way establishing meaning a place is by inserting oneself into spaces taking selfies. depicted in selfies may reflect desire associate with place, make statement challenging or dominant associated it, create new concerning s...

Geography in a commonsense way is about place. Place is a term used to describe the meaning that humans give to a location. Characterising a location as a place requires a huge amount of time to collect and analyse data. Furthermore, a place definition associated to a location can become rapidly obsolete. Nowadays, social networks and social media became very popular. People on social networks ...

This article places the conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark in conversation with hermeneutical debates within field of theological aesthetics. By exploring transformative effect Matta-Clark’s Splitting evokes on spatially related categories, I argue that place is a locus meaning, and absence constitutive feature meaning. The hermeneutics at play have set formal features which accord certain po...

1. INTRODUCTION A mother and her young baby are playfully interacting. We hear the mother speak in short bursts, talking in a sing-song manner, and the baby occasionally 'answers back'. It appears clear that communication is taking place, but communication based in what ? The baby cannot understand the meaning of the words the mother is using, and the baby answers in often 'gliding-type' sounds...