Treebanks are used for various purposes in language technology, but the wealth of data they contain can also be put to good use for the purpose of linguistic description and linguistic theory. To demonstrate this I will show how the treebank of the Spoken Dutch Corpus can be exploited to improve our understanding of what it is that distinguishes predicative complements from other types of compl...

Abstract Assyriologists and Semitists have assumed that the attributive masculine plural morpheme - ūt found in Akkadian is a secondary development analogy with feminine āt . In this paper I suggest should be reconstructed to Proto-Semitic. My arguments are based on some pronouns West Semitic existence of distinction between predicative morphology both branches Semitic.

We consider a version of the minimalist foundation previously introduced to formalize predicative constructive mathematics. This foundation is equipped with two levels to meet the usual informal practice of developing mathematics in an extensional set theory (its extensional level) with the possibility of formalizing it in an intensional theory enjoying a proofs as programs semantics (its inten...

This paper discusses the effects of variation in the meaning of property concept terms (Dixon 1982) on the form of predicative and comparative constructions. We demonstrate the existence of two kinds of property concept lexeme, which differ systematically in how they participate in constructions expressing the truth conditions of property concept predication. The first kind of lexeme is used in...

Coordinate, plural and predicative constructions of noun phrases are common and highly productive in natural languages. They are also related in intricate ways: conjunctive coordination is one of the simple means to form plural NP’s from singular ones; many coordinate and plural NP’s appear naturally in predicative positions. Any theory of grammar and semantic interpretation should account for ...