In Malagasy, a head-initial Austronesian language of Madagascar, basic clauses consist of a predicate phrase combined with a DP constituent which I will refer to here as the trigger (also known as the subject). When the predicate phrase is headed by a verb, that verb inflects for voice to indicate the grammatical function of the trigger. The examples in (1) below illustrate the various voice fo...

We describe and motivate the design of a lexico-grammatical knowledgebase called StringNet and illustrate its significance for research into constructional phenomena in English. StringNet consists of a massive archive of what we call hybrid n-grams. Unlike traditional n-grams, hybrid n-grams can consist of any co-occurring combination of POS tags, lexemes, and specific word forms. Further, we d...

Patients with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia commonly present with impaired language. Here we investigate language in schizophrenia with a focus on inflectional morphology, using an intensively studied and relatively well-understood linguistic paradigm. Patients with schizophrenia (n=43) and age-matched healthy control subjects (n=42) were asked to produce past tenses of regular (s...

This study reports the results of an investigation of subject properties in the spontaneous speech of 14 4-year old English speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and two control groups (age and MLUm). It is shown that while the children with SLI perform much below their age-level with respect to grammatical properties of subjects (subject-verb agreement, subject case), they ...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate whether the processing of subject-verb dependencies is influenced by (1) the linear distance between the subject and the verb and (2) the presence of an intervening noun phrase with interfering number features. Linear distance did not affect integration and diagnosis or revision processes at the verb, as indexed by early negative and P600...

This paper describes the application of filtering techniques to collocation sets calculated for very large text corpora. Additional information like patterns, grammatical information, subject areas and numerical values associated with the collocations are used to identify collocations with given semantic structure. Various examples and different techniques for applying such filters are describe...

stimuli. For example, the statements “Team A beat team B” and “Team B lost to team A” convey the same information, but because each sentence draws attention to its grammatical subject, they make different thoughts accessible. Accessibility also reflects temporary states of associative activation. For example, the mention of a familiar social category temporarily increases the accessibility of t...

The objectives of this research are to know the errors in third semester students’ writing Bina Sarana Informatika University and most frequent error. It is concerned grammatical semantic substance errors. data analyzed by using James’ theory (Mungungu, 2010). findings show that done students spelling 50.9%, fragment 15.7%, punctuation 9.8%, adjective 3%, subject- verb agreement 3.9%, prepo...

We observe that compared to natural and modelling languages, the differences in expression required to deal with no, one, or many objects in programming languages are particularly pronounced. We identify some problems inherent in type-based unifications of different numbers, and advocate a solution that builds on the introduction of multiplicity as a new grammatical category of programming lang...

We describe an annotation scheme for syntactic information in the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000), which contains several megabytes of transcribed dialogs between parents and children. The annotation scheme is based on grammatical relations (GRs) that are composed of bilexical dependencies (between a head and a dependent) labeled with the name of the relation involving the two words (such a...