In this study, the distributions of certain parts of speech, especially auxiliaries, is investigated. Using the definition of the h-point, we define the thematic concentration of the text and introduce the concentration unit tcu.

In this article I would like to make two claims – an easy claim and a more difficult one. The easy claim is that the distinction illustrated in (1) is spurious. All the examples of be in (1) are prototypical auxiliaries. As described by Huddleston and Pullum (2002: 92), these are CORE AUXILIARIES. The more difficult claim is that indeed there is a morphosyntactic difference between be as a lexi...

This study aimed to describe and to analyze knowledge on pressure ulcer prevention among nursing team members working in direct care to adult and elderly patients at a university hospital. A descriptive and exploratory research was carried out between January and March 2009, after approval by the Research Ethics Committee at the study institution. Data were collected through a validated questio...

Treebanks have recently been released for a number of languages with the harmonized annotation created by the Universal Dependencies project. The representation of certain constructions in UD are known to be suboptimal for parsing and may be worth transforming for the purpose of parsing. In this paper, we focus on the representation of verb groups. Several studies have shown that parsing works ...

This study aimed to know and understand the actions of nursing auxiliaries and technicians who work in the intensive care unit of the school hospital at the University of São Paulo in relation to ethical events. Data were collected through interviews with eight nursing auxiliaries and technicians (NAs and NTs), with experience with ethical events, and were analyzed according to sociological phe...

Formal semantics has so far mostly focused on three categories of quantifiers (Q)—to wit, Qdeterminers (e.g. every), Q-adverbs (e.g. always), and Q-auxiliaries (e.g. would). All three form constructions that can be analyzed in terms of tripartite logical forms (LFs), consisting of a quantifier, the restriction, and the nuclear scope. This view has been implemented, with varying details, by most...