a growing number of recent studies on verbal meaning have demonstrated that positing a direct mapping between (lexical/logical) semantics and syntax with respect to event structure can account for numerous linguistic phenomena. in this article, we demonstrate that certain facts in persian can only be explained by decomposing verbs into smaller syntactic pieces that reflect subparts of a complex...

According to the proform view of VP Ellipsis (VPE), elided VP’s share with pronouns the properties of being syntactically unstructured and being semantically identified with an antecedent. This paper explores some consequences of the proform view of VP Ellipsis, concerning binding theory and the binding of traces. Since the VPE is syntactically empty, syntactic binding theory constraints do not...

In late Medieval Greek and many modern dialects, pronominal clitics are syntactically adjoined to an IP projection. In another set of dialects they have become syntactically adjoined to a verbal head. In the most innovating dialects (which include Standard Greek) they are agreement affixes. Extending the Fontana/Halpern clitic typology, we propose a trajectory of lexicalization from X clitics v...

W e're academics. When each of us wishes to augment his income with consulting, his favorite positions are requirements specification (RS) inspector or inspection facilitator. Each of us has developed his own private check list of potential-problem indicators , and, when he inspects an RS, he reports any instances of these indicators to the authors. Often enough, these potential problems prove ...

The Operational Data Model (ODM) is a data standard for interchanging clinical trial data. ODM contains the metadata definition of study, i.e., case report forms, as well data, answers participants. portal medical models an infrastructure creation, exchange, and analysis models. There, over 23000 definitions can be downloaded in format. Due to protection law privacy issues, not contained these ...

Fairy tales, folktales and more generally children stories have lately attracted the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community. As such, very few corpora exist and linguistic resources are lacking. The work presented in this paper aims at filling this gap by presenting a syntactically and semantically annotated corpus. It focuses on the linguistic analysis of a Fairy Tales Corpus, and provide...

The task of aligning corresponding phrases across two related sentences is an important component of approaches for natural language problems such as textual inference, paraphrase detection and text-to-text generation. In this work, we examine a state-of-the-art structured prediction model for the alignment task which uses a phrase-based representation and is forced to decode alignments using a...