Tradicionalmente, os gerúndios são tratados como uma forma nominal do verbo porque apresentariam um comportamento “pouco verbal” (cf. FIGUEIREDO SILVA; MEDEIROS, 2016), a ausência de tempo, o que aproximaria classe nominal. Diante disso, esse artigo explora dos gerúndios, mostrando ela não é homogênea, na medida em apresenta propriedades distintas – apresentamos evidências para categorial misto...

In this paper I use the formal framework of minimalist grammars to implement a version of the traditional approach to ellipsis as ‘deletion under syntactic (derivational) identity’, which, in conjunction with canonical analyses of voice phenomena, immediately allows for voice mismatches in verb phrase ellipsis, but not in sluicing. This approach to ellipsis is naturally implemented in a parser ...

Most of the popular efficient proof search calculi work on formulae that are in clausal form, i.e. in disjunctive or conjunctive normal form. Hence, most state-of-the-art fully automated theorem provers require a translation of the input formula into clausal form in a preprocessing step. Translating a proof in clausal form back into a more readable non-clausal proof of the original formula is n...

The focus of this paper is on the proper analysis of lexical and phrasal nominalizations in English and Korean that are built around an identical deverbal element. In English, as is well-known, there are both lexical and phrasal nominalizations that are built around the -ing suffixed form of the verb. In Korean too, there are both lexical and phrasal nominalizations based on the same nominalizi...

In a recent article in Information Systems Research, Pinsonneault et al. (1999) present a thorough and compelling summary of theoretical factors that act to enhance and impair productivity in electronic brainstorming (EBS) groups as contrasted with traditional verbal brainstorming groups and nominal group brainstorming. They assume that all theoretical factors are equally important and remain c...

Starting with Ross (1970), various proposals have been made to classify elliptical coordinations and to characterize different languages according to the types of ellipses which they admit. Sanders (1977) discusses four of these proposals, shows that they are inadequate on various grounds and proposes a fifth typology whose central claim is 'evidently correct', as he states (p. 258). In the fol...

This article reviews studies that have used experimental methods from psycholinguistics to address questions about the representation of sentences involving ellipsis. Accounts of the structure of ellipsis can be classified based on three choice points in a decision tree. First: does the identity constraint between antecedents and ellipsis sites apply to syntactic or semantic representations? Se...

Acceptability of case ellipsis on focused subjects and objects exhibits clear asymmetry which so far has not received a plausible explanation. Case ellipsis on focused direct objects occurs naturally, whereas case ellipsis on focused transitive subjects is unnatural whether the subject is contrastively focused or not. The main purpose of this paper is to provide experimental evidence that the d...

this research is designed to produce detailed descriptions of the morphological ergativity in three south asian languages. the chosen sample includes hindi/urdu, pashto and balochi, as morphologically enough to achieve the goals and generalizations of the research. the study presents the range of variation in case and agreement marking in these south asian descendants of the common indo-iranian...