In this paper, we present a method for generating French texts conveying temporal information that integrates Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) and Systemic Grammar Theory. DRT is used to represent temporal information and an intermediate semantic level for the temporal localization expressed by temporal adverbial phrases and verb phrases. This representation is then translated into a synta...

One of the familiar topics in the research of Chinese syntax is the so-called postverbal complement constructions in which various types of phrases occur to the right of the matrix verb as do ordinary objects. Descriptive Complement Construction (DCC) is one where the postverbal constituent is an adjectival/adverbial phrase (AP). An intransitive and a transitive example of DCC are given in (1a)...

We present SEJF, a lexical resource of Polish nominal, adjectival and adverbial multi-word expressions. It consists of an intensional module with about 4,700 multi-word lemmas assigned to 160 inflection graphs, and an extensional module with 88,000 automatically generated inflected forms annotated with grammatical tags. We show the results of its coverage evaluation against an annotated corpus....

Recent research in cognitive linguistics has shown that idiomatic phrases are decomposable and analyzable and that the individual words in idiomatic phrases systematically contribute to the overall figurative interpretations. This cognitive linguistic view suggests that enhancing awareness of conceptual metaphors embedded in the individual words may help second language students to learn idioms...

Esperanto is unique among the world’s communicative languages in that, rather than being the culmination of hundreds of years of natural language change and evolution, it arose as the result of a conscious human pln. From a certain point of view, this makes it also uniquely interesting for the historical linguist. Despite its relative youth (it was developed only 130 years ago), Esperanto alrea...

This chapter focusses on the apparent V3 pattern in (1), which is salient with some speakers of Ghent dialect: an initial adverbial constituent root clause, vroeger (‘formerly’), separated from finite verb by optional ‘pleonastic’ (Vanacker 1980) element, die. The element die has no impact truth value proposition it introduces. (1) Vroeger, (die) bakten wij vier soorten brood Formerly baked we ...