This paper presents a model that extends semantic role labeling. Existing approaches independently analyze relations expressed by verb predicates or those expressed as nominalizations. However, sentences express relations via other linguistic phenomena as well. Furthermore, these phenomena interact with each other, thus restricting the structures they articulate. In this paper, we use this intu...

This paper addresses a fundamental problem of derivational morphology: which meanings are possible for the words given morphological category, forms can be chosen to express meaning, and what is role base in these mappings form meaning? In broad empirical study we examine extent two types nominalizations English – conversion nouns - ing either eventive or referential readings, quantified as cou...

Access to morphological structure during lexical processing has been established across a number of languages; however, it remains unclear which constituents are held as mental representations in the lexicon. The present study examined the auditory recognition of different noun types across 2 experiments. The critical manipulations were morphological complexity and the presence of a verbal deri...

The present paper presents a unified analysis of free and embedded indirect speech, with a specific focus on German. First we need a context-based analysis of indexicals (rigid/shiftable) which can capture their orientation in uses in indirect speech. The analysis includes a treatment of the German reportative subjunctive as a shiftable indexical tense. Indirect speech in embedded clauses of th...

UNLABELLED The GENIA ontology is a taxonomy that was developed as a result of manual annotation of a subset of MEDLINE, the GENIA corpus. Both the ontology and corpus have been used as a benchmark to test and develop biological information extraction tools. Recent work shows, however, that there is a demand for a more comprehensive ontology that would go along with the corpus. We propose a comp...

Researchers in typological and functional approaches to language have argued that the cross-linguistic properties of nominalizations follow from the univeral semantic properties of syntactic categories. Specifically, nouns denote objects and verbs denote actions in the prototypical case. In this paper I argue that this prototypical association of semantic type with syntactic category can be rep...