Title of Document: GRAMMAR DECONSTRUCTED: CONSTRUCTIONS AND THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE COMPARATIVE CORRELATIVE Heather Lee Taylor, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed by: Professor Norbert Hornstein Department of Linguistics Comparative correlatives, like the longer you stay out in the rain, the colder you’ll get, are prolific in the world’s languages (i.e., there is no evidence of a language that...

Abstract Will there only be one Metaverse in the future? Since October 2021, many virtual worlds suddenly called themselves “Metaverse”, but is that justified? What meaning behind pervasive term Metaverse? How can it approached from a pragmatic and research-oriented point of view, maybe separated bit pure marketing? This paper tries to contextualise thereby offer an orientation for readers diff...

In this paper, we propose an approach for inferring semantic role using subcategorization frames and maximum entropy model. Our approach aims to use the sub-categorization information of the verb to label the mandatory arguments of the verb in various possible ways. The ambiguity between the assignment of roles to mandatory arguments is resolved using the maximum entropy model. The unlabelled m...

This article proposes an annotation method of corpus data for the purposes of providing a constructionist account of lexical behavior. The lexical items in question are seven verbs of motion in Modern Standard Arabic that pertain to the events of COME (atā, ǧā’a, ḥaḍara, and qadima) and GO (ḏahaba, maḍā, and rāḥa). The tag set selected for the annotation of the COME and GO data frames consists ...

In this paper, we present an ontology-driven information extraction system for pre-analysis of military texts such as intelligence reports. We discuss the techniques used in this system, which are “Information Extraction” (IE), “Semantic Role Labeling” (SRL) and the application of different kinds of ontologies for knowledge representation. As a conclusion we show how a system that integrates al...

To elucidate the relationships between syntactic and semantic processes, one interesting question is how syntactic structures are constructed by the argument structure of a verb, where each argument corresponds to a semantic role of each noun phrase (NP). Here we examined the effects of possessivity [sentences with or without a possessor] and canonicity [canonical or noncanonical word orders] u...

In this paper, we propose an alternative account of linking patterns which does away with intermediary mechanisms such as thematic or actor/undergoer hierarchies. The basis of this theory is constraints on word classes, deened by both syntactic and semantic criteria, which encode generalizations between semantic roles and syntactic arguments. We show that the generalizations a linking theory ne...