Investigations of sluicing since Chung, Ladusaw, and McCloskey 1995 have profitably explored two approaches to this ellipsis process that differ significantly from ours. In one, the ellipsis site is created by deletion of a fully articulated TP in which Wh -movement has applied. In the other, the ellipsis site contains no internal structure at all, and its reference is resolved via pragmatic in...

In this paper we show how a natural language system can learn to find the antecedents of relative pronouns. We use a well-known conceptual clustering system to create a case-based memory that predicts the antecedent of a wh-word given a description of the clause that precedes it. Our automated approach duplicates the performance of hand-coded rules. In addition, it requires only minimal syntact...

In this paper we show how a natural language system can learn to find the antecedents of relative pronouns. We use a well-known conceptual clustering system to create a case-based memory that predicts the antecedent of a wh-word given a description of the clause that precedes it. Our automated approach duplicates the performance of hand-coded rules. In addition, it requires only minimal syntact...

This document describes a sizable grammar of English written in the TAG formalism and implemented for use with the XTAG system. This report and the grammar described herein supersedes the TAG grammar described in an earlier 1995 XTAG technical report. The English grammar described in this report is based on the TAG formalism which has been extended to include lexicalization, and unification-bas...

Computer models of tutorial dialog need to segment and classify the learner’s contributions into sequences of speech acts. The responses of the computer tutor we have developed (called AutoTutor) need to be sensitive to the speech acts of the learner’s contribution during the previous turn. We developed and tested some models that classified the speech acts in naturalistic tutorial dialog into ...

This research is case study which was designed to investigate the acquisition of WH-question byPersian and English speaking children between 2 to 4 years old. Four girls and their input wereprecisely analyzed in order to figure how WH-questions are effective in their speaking in theirdaily lives. In the current study the subjects were randomly selected and the matter of gender wasnot considered...

Abstract This paper experimentally investigates the two generalizations for multiple sluicing (MS) recently presented by Klaus Abels and Veneeta Dayal: first, that wh-remnants must have clausemate correlates in antecedent utterance and, second, MS can clause are contained a strong syntactic island. The fact displays both of these properties is puzzling since island insensitivity under favors no...

This paper provides a comprehensive description of relative clause structures in standard Maltese, which is a mixed language belonging to the South Arabic branch of Central Semitic, with a Maghrebi/Siculo-Arabic stratum, a Romance (Sicilian, Italian) superstratum and an English adstratum. Where relevant, we draw attention to divergences between standard and dialectal Maltese. We provide detaile...

Introduction It is well established that pronouns can intervene between a topicalized constituent and a finite verb in Old English (OE); this has been analyzed as evidence that evidence that the verb moves only as high as T in OE matrix clauses, and that a landing site between T and Spec,CP is available to subject pronouns (cf. Pintzuk 1991). This paper considers a well known exception to this ...

The paper accounts for an unexpected embedded present tense, which denotes a future time in French relative clauses. matrix displays either the periphrastic or simple future. In both cases, one can arguably decompose into tense feature and forward shifter. This move leads to analysis of morphology encountered clause as instance Sequence tense.