Noninterference provides a control over information flow in a system for ensuring confidentiality and integrity properties. In the literature this notion has been well studied as transitive noninterference and intransitive noninterference. In this paper we define a framework on the notion of conditional noninterference, which allows to specify information flow policies based on the semantics of...

This paper addresses the issue of Split Intransitivity (si) and Unaccusative Mismatches (uMs), proposing a constraint-based approach to si and ums within a recent framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. I argue against the widely accepted dichotomous distinction of intransitive verbs, which has been advanced by the Unaccusative Hypothesis [Perlmutter (1978)]. I then propose a quadrip...

Patients with ideomotor apraxia (IM) are frequently more impaired in the production and imitation of object-related (transitive) than non-object-related, symbolic (intransitive) gestures, but reasons for this dissociation, and its anatomical underpinnings, remain unclear. Our theoretical model of praxis (Buxbaum, 2001) postulates that left inferior parietal lobe (IPL) gesture representations st...

This study focuses on the neural processing of English sentences containing unergative, unaccusative and transitive verbs. We demonstrate common responses in bilateral superior temporal gyri in response to listening to sentences containing unaccusative and transitive verbs compared to unergative verbs; we did not detect any activation that was specific to unaccusatives. Our findings indicate th...

What is the relation between consciousness and self-consciousness? In recent philosophy of mind, we are accustomed to underlining their independence. It is often emphasized that a person can be conscious of a host of objects, features, and states of affairs unrelated to her. When a person is conscious of the sky, or consciously experiences the blueness of the sky, she is not attending to hersel...

How might syntactic bootstrapping apply in Turkish, which employs inflectional morphology to indicate grammatical relations and allows argument ellipsis? We investigated whether Turkish speakers interpret constructions differently depending on the number of NPs in the sentence, the presence of accusative case marking and the causative morpheme. Data were collected from 60 child speakers and 16 ...

In this paper, we introduce a tripartite scheme for the classification of intransitive verbs for Hindi and claim it to be a more suitable model of classification than the classical binary unaccusative/unergative classification. We develop a multi-class SVM classifier based model for automatic classification of intransitive verbs into proposed tripartite classes. We rank the unaccusative diagnos...

Introduction        A dialect is a variety of a language used by group of people whose lexicon, syntax, phonetics and phonology are different from those of other people. The existence of many geographical, economic and social barriers among the speakers of a language cause the emergence of many dialects. As such, each language has many dialects and accents and each dialect has many different ac...

Linguistic cues may be considered a potent tool for focusing attention on causes or effects. In this paper, we explore how different cues affect causal assignments in German and Tongan. From a larger screening study, two parts are reported here: Part 1 dealt with syntactic variations, including word order (agent vs. patient in first/subject position) and case marking (e.g., as ergative vs. non-...