This paper investigates how syntactic knowledge interfaces with other cognitive systems by analysing the production of postverbal subjects, V(erb)–S(ubject) order, in an L1 Spanish–L2 English corpus and a comparable English native corpus. VS order in both native and L2 English is shown to be constrained by properties operating at three interfaces: (i) LEXICON–SYNTAX: the verb is unaccusative (U...

We provide a visualization library and web interface for interactively exploring a parse tree or a forest of parses. The library is not tied to any particular linguistic representation, but provides a generalpurpose API for the interactive exploration of hierarchical linguistic structure. To facilitate rapid understanding of a complex structure, the API offers several important features, includ...

We present the first step towards a constraint-based syntax-semantics interface for Topological Dependency Grammar (TDG) (Duchier and Debusmann, 2001). We extend TDG with a new level of representation called semantic dependency dag to capture the deep semantic dependencies and clearly separate this level from the syntactic dependency tree. We stipulate an emancipation mechanism between these le...

This paper describes an integration of hypertext browsing and authoring facilities into a syntax-directed programming environment. The editor’s recognition of the programming language building blocks has been exploited not only to guide program entry, but to break programs into units which can be connected into a hyperdocument. Comments and documentation are separated from the actual program an...

This paper presents an analysis of the ditransitive constructions in Finnish, a language with flexible word order. I argue that the base-generated order of Finnish ditransitive structures, which permit both direct object-indirect object (DO-IO) order and IO-DO order, is in fact DO-IO. According to my analysis, IO-DO order is generated by discourse-driven scrambling of the IO. These claims are s...

In this paper, I argue both empirically and formally that we need an optional relative past in the semantics of the temporal system of Russian. I propose a temporal calculus which can effectively deal with relative past readings in Russian, including the interaction with temporal adverbials, without positing an unwelcome ambiguity of explicit markers of tense and aspect. Furthermore, I show tha...

This article proposes a simple modeling of Korean word order within the framework of the topological dependency grammar – the first topological modeling for this language – a system of formal rules accounting for the correspondence between the dependency tree of a sentence and an ordered constituent structure. We show that a fairly small number of linearization rules can account for the word or...

In recent work a tentative suggestion has emerged: certain processes which appear to be core cases of head movement should be analysed instead as not involving the computational system at all, but rather as arising because of the way that the phonological systems interact with the structures delivered to the interface by the syntax (see, for example, Chomsky 1995, 4.7.3). In this paper, I exami...

Entity population, a task of collecting entities that belong to a particular category, has attracted attention from vertical domains. There is still a high demand for creating entity dictionaries in vertical domains, which are not covered by existing knowledge bases. We develop a lightweight front-end tool for facilitating interactive entity population. We implement key components necessary for...