BACKGROUND: Theories of comprehension deficits in Broca's aphasia have largely been based on the pattern of deficit found with movement constructions. However, some studies have found comprehension deficits with binding constructions, which do not involve movement. AIMS: This study investigates online processing and offline comprehension of binding constructions, such as reflexive (e.g., himse...

In this paper, we focus on various methods for detecting verbal collocations, i.e. verb-particle constructions and light verb constructions in Wikipedia articles. Our results suggest that for verb-particle constructions, POS-tagging and restriction on the particle seem to yield the best result whereas the combination of POS-tagging, syntactic information and restrictions on the nominal and verb...

An important theme in the study of language during the twentieth century has been the balance between the grammar of words (morphology) and that of phrases and sentences (Syntax). Some writers, such as Morris Swadesh (1939), have seemed to treat this as a merely terminological issue, referring to (much of) morphology simply as “internal syntax.” More recently, some (e.g. Selkirk 1982, Williams ...

Abstract. This paper presents a proposal for the integration of information structure in a unification-based grammar of Danish. Three information structure features – topic, focus and background – are defined, and it is shown how they are instantiated in a number of different grammar constructions. Prosodic, syntactic and information structure constraints characterising the various construction...

The aim of this article is to describe the morpho-syntactic alternations Old English verbs inaction. method includes analysis syntactic constructions in which inaction are found and themselves, described as argumenthood, morphological case, prepositional government structural complexity. Two types alternation identified on basis affected argument. dative reflexive involve both first second argu...

This paper presents experimental work on the relative naturalness of subject-oriented reflexives (herself) and pronouns (her) in English locative prepositional phrases (e.g., Michele set a glass next to her/herself). Syntactic approaches anaphor licensing have tended focus lack complementarity such constructions; however, it has long been observed that preferences between forms may depend verb ...

This article presents the methods, results, and precision of the syntactic annotation process of the Rhapsodie Treebank of spoken French. The Rhapsodie Treebank is an 33,000 word corpus annotated for prosody and syntax, licensed in its entirety under Creative Commons. The syntactic annotation contains two levels: a macro-syntactic level, containing a segmentation into illocutionary units (inclu...

It is possible within Tree Adjoining Grammar to reproduce many of the syntactic analyses originally formulated by linguists in transformational terms. To the extent that these analyses are well-motivated empirically, this fact makes TAG interesting for use in developing computational learning and processing models (Joshi 1990, Frank 1992, Rambow 1994), since the use of other non-transformationa...