In this paper we propose a method to compositionally interpret tenses of Japanese complex sentences on the basis of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Discourse Representation Theory. In this approach, each of the tense-bearing forms such as main verbs and the past auxiliary is given a single temporal meaning independent of its position in the syntactic structure. The `relative tense theo...

We consider the representation and processing of the English verb features tense, aspect and voice, within a computational cognitive model of human language processing. We assume that a collection of features is associated with each verbal element and that these features may project to the clauses in which they occur. When multiple verbal elements occur, it is possible for the features to confl...

The paper describes a tool developed in the context of the ACCURAT project (Analysis and evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of machine Translation). The purpose of the tool is to extract bilingual lexical dictionaries (word-to-word) from comparable corpora which do not have to be aligned at any level (document, paragraph, etc.) The method implemented in this tool is intr...

Kim, Jong-Bok. 2013. On the Existence of Small clauses in English. English Language and Linguistics 19.1, 67-88. The existence of small clauses (NPPredicate sequence as a constituent) has been rather controversial: there are arguments for and against the postulation of the SC in the English grammar. In this paper, we discuss phenomena where the NP-Predicate sequence forms a constituent and acce...

In this paper, we describe differences between a classical word alignment on the surface (word-layer alignment) and an alignment of deep syntactic sentence representations (tectogrammatical alignment). The deep structures we use are dependency trees containing content (autosemantic) words as their nodes. Most of other functional words, such as prepositions, articles, and auxiliary verbs are hid...

Event classification is one of the crucial tasks in lexical semantic representation. Traditionally, researchers have regarded process and state as two top-level events and discriminated between them by semantic and syntactic characteristics. In this paper, we add cause-result relativity as an auxiliary criterion to discriminate between process and state by structuring about 40,000 Chinese verbs...

This study emerged from students' questions “who learn Turkish as a foreign language”, “ziyaret et- /ziyaret yap- ; kahvaltı etmek / yapmak is it right? ”; ıf these are true, can I say “namaz yap-?” about using combined actions such as. In fact, observed that there debate among Turkish-speaking students and teachers on the use of "yap-" auxiliary verb. For this purpose, in study, firstly, how e...

The study describes the acquisition of verb by typically developing Amharic-speaking children. It recruitedcross-sectional research design to gather speeches’ data from thirty-two children using picture description, spontaneous elicitation, and story-tellingtasks. Thedata were audio- recorded, transcribed IPA, analyzed. result showed that most ofAmharic speakingchildren’s verbs appeared as sing...

study, taking truly independent ratings to see which verbs participants considered to be denominal or deverbal (i.e. exocentric or not). The results of this new experiment were clear. The semantic similarity (or otherwise) of verbs-incontext to ordinary irregular usage predicted the acceptability of past-tense forms. Whether or not verbs were perceived to be exocentric was irrelevant to this. I...