This paper looks at integrating dependency and constituency into a common framework, using the TAG formalism and a different perspective on the metagrammar of (Dras, 1999) in which the meta level models dependencies and the object level model constituency. This framework gives consistent dependency analyses of raising verbs interacting with bridge verbs, solving a problem in Synchronous TAG. An...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss treatment of 'focus particles' in Japanese sentences to be incorporated in a Japanese parsing system based on the Lexical-Functional Grammar(LFG) formalism. Focus particle can follow nouns, quantifiers, verbs, other particles (postpositions) and auxiliary verbs. Thus, it is necessary for a large-scale grammar to treat focus particles properly. Furthermore...

This paper looks at integrating dependency and constituency into a common framework, using the TAG formalism and a di erent perspective on the meta-level grammar of Dras (1999a) in which the meta level models dependencies and the object level models constituency. This framework gives consistent dependency analyses of raising verbs interacting with bridge verbs, additionally giving a solution to...

The current work investigated whether differences in phonological overlap between the past- and present-tense forms of regular and irregular verbs can account for the graded neurophysiological effects of verb regularity observed in past-tense priming designs. Event-related potentials were recorded from sixteen healthy participants who performed a lexical-decision task in which past-tense primes...

This paper proposes an analysis method for Japanese modality. In this purpose, meaning of Japanese modality is classified into four semantic categories and the role of it is formalized into five modality functions. Based on these formalizations, information and constraints to be applied to the modality analysis procedure are specified. Then by combining these investigations with case analysis, ...

This paper describes auxiliary verb constructions in European Portuguese in view of their correct parsing in a fully integrated NLP chain. The paper provides data on these constructions over a large-sized corpus and evaluates the parsing system performance.

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This paper is concerned with some aspects of the semantics of modal verbs in English, in particular the phenomenon of modal subordination and the constraints on interpretation of successive modal sentences in a discourse. I propose a solution in the framework of dynamic semantics. The information state is taken to be a set of possibilities which are classiied according to the modal options extr...