This chapter is concerned with how the ability of speakers and writers to produce syntactic structures is constrained by contextual and interactional factors. During language production we are often faced with a choice between syntactic alternatives. These syntactic alternatives are different in terms of their surface structure while being very similar in meaning, for example: an active versus ...

The paper focuses on the issues of establishing semantic content of syntactic structures via the contrastive study of the English and Russian language systems and parallel texts analysis for the tasks of machine translation. Particular attention is given to consideration of syntactic polysemy and ambiguity, and the mechanisms of polysemous structures presentation are proposed. The decisions are...

The importance of abstract syntactic structures and their crucial role in analyzing sentences have long been emphasized in contemporary linguistics, whereas the linear order model, in which next-coming words in a sentence are claimed to be predictable based on lexico-semantic association or statistics alone, has also been proposed and widely assumed. We examined these possibilities with magneto...

This paper aims to (1.) quantify possible correlation between syntactic structure and prosodic manifestation in Mandarin Chinese, (2.) explore to what extent such correlation could be predicted by syntactic structures and what may go beyond these correlations, and (3.) increase more operational characteristics to Mandarin prosodic structures.