Analyses of filler-gap dependencies usually involve complex syntactic rules or heuristics; however recent results suggest that filler-gap comprehension begins earlier than seemingly simpler constructions such as ditransitives or passives. Therefore, this work models filler-gap acquisition as a byproduct of learning word orderings (e.g. SVO vs OSV), which must be done at a very young age anyway ...

Various pragmatic accounts of the functions of alternative syntactic constructions are available, in terms of presuppositions, information structure, or speaker intentions. Following a consideration of some of the various restrictions applying to the use of the alternative syntactic forms, the paper reviews some of these pragmatic accounts. It then proposes a characterisation of speaker intenti...

In this paper, I attempt to investigate two forms of verb phrase fronting constructions in Korean: 1) doubling VP and 2) do-support constructions. First, lay out common properties the show that Korean involve phrasal movement rather than being base-generated left-periphery. Furthermore, observe exhibit differences regarding types negation. argue these are caused by variation size targeted mater...

Due to the syntactic differences between Arabic and English, translating compound-complex phrases is a difficult procedure that has presented significant difficulty for translators. This demands good understanding of syntax. Having firm syntax essential when complex statements. essay investigates how affects these two languages translate phrases. The goal this study discover evaluate elements i...

Language ability of 20 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) was evaluated. Analysis of spontaneous speech revealed a normal range and frequency of syntactic constructions but poor lexical use. A writing task showed a similar divergence, with the ability to use syntactic cues significantly more intact than the ability to use semantic cues. The results are taken to indicate that syntac...

Marcus [3] notes that the syntax of English comparative constructions is highly complex, and claims that both syntactic end semantic information must be available for them to be parsed. This paper argues that comparatives can be structurally analyzed on the basis of syntactic information alone via a s t r i c t l y surface-based grammar. Such a grammar is given in Ryan [5], based on the corepre...

Development of noun phrase structure and use is analyzed as an important facet of syntactic acquisition from middle childhood to adolescence. Noun phrases occurring in narrative and expository texts produced in both speech and writing by 96 native speakers of English and Hebrew were identified and examined by a set of specially devised criteria including length in words, syntactic depth, abstra...

We present a novel, modular, recurrent connectionist network architecture which learns to robustly perform incremental parsing of complex sentences. From sequential input, one word at a time, our networks learn to do semantic role assignment, noun phrase attachment, and clause structure recognition for sentences with passive constructions and center embedded clauses. The networks make syntactic...

We propose a unified syntactic-semantic account of passive sentences and sentences with an unspecified object (John read). For both constructions, we employ option types for introducing implicit arguments into the syntactic-semantic categorial mechanism. We show the advantages of this approach over previous proposals in the domains of scope and unaccusatives. Unlike pure syntactic treatments, o...

The notion of coherent and incoherent in nitive constructions was introduced by Bech (1955) to distinguish between two classes of control constructions in German which di er systematically in their syntactic behavior. In this paper, we propose an HPSG analysis for these two constructions which can account for a wide range of their syntactic properties. The analysis is built on our previous work...