Absiraet. in this work we extend results from [4], [3] and [2] about propositional calculi with graded modalities to the predicative level. Our semantic is based on Kripke models with a single domain of interpretation for all the worlds. Therefore the axiomatic system will need a suitable generalization of the Barcan formula. We haven't considered semantics with world-relative domains because t...

1 Aerospatiale Matra Centre Commun de Recherches Suresnes, France David.Roussel@aeromatra . com 253 In a restricted domain and task, we propose that the elementary tree backbones represent statically the predicative Level and the possible distribution of arguments while the syntactic categories and constraints would be only processed dynamically by the way of features. The resulting grammar can...

Subject island effects are variable and unstable. Previous accounts, relying on well-defined structural properties of subjects, fail to capture this variability. We argue that subjects are islands only when they satisfy the Subject Criterion, which implies that at the interface they are interpreted outside the predicative nucleus of the clause, in a categorical structure (à la Ladusaw 1994); on...

Predicates are used in a variety of formal specification languages, though a predicate does not always mean the same thing in each approach. For example, the predicate false in Z means the same thing as true in the predicative calculus of Hehner. In this paper, we compare the specification languages Z, Morgan’s Refinement Calculus, and Parnas’s Limited Domain relations, using the timed predicat...

Subject island effects are variable and unstable. Previous accounts, relying on well-defined structural properties of subjects, fail to capture this variability. We argue that subjects are islands only when they satisfy the Subject Criterion, which implies that at the interface they are interpreted outside the predicative nucleus of the clause, in a categorical structure (à la Ladusaw 1994); on...

This paper presents work on the corpus-based acquisition of predicatively used German adverbs by means of a statistical grammar model. The predicative use of adverbs is lexically restricted to local adverbs, temporal adverbs, and to a limited number of other adverbs, some of which are part of idiomatic phrases. Besides listing local and temporal adverbs we are mainly interested in identifying t...

In the development of machine learning systems for identification of reference chains, hand-annotated corpora play a crucial role. This paper concerns the question of how predicative NPs should be annotated w.r.t. coreference in corpora for such systems. This question highlights the tension that sometimes appears in the development of corpora between linguistic considerations and the aim for pe...

The puzzle addressed here is the appearance of the POSS sign, pictured at right above, in both attributive (1a) and predicative (2b) possessive constructions.2 Patterns in the morphosyntax and semantics of POSS possessives reveal that the underlying function of POSS across these constructions is that of a verbal predicate. The analysis of POSS as a verbal predicate is transparently supported by...

Previous metaphor studies have paid much attention to nominal and predicative metaphors and little attention has been given to adjective metaphors. Although some studies have focused on adjective metaphors, they have only examined how the acceptability of adjective metaphors can be explained by the pairing of adjective modifier’s and head noun’s modalities and little attention has been given to...

Previous metaphor studies have paid much attention to nominal metaphors and predicative metaphors, but little attention has been given to adjective metaphors. Although some studies have focused on adjective metaphors, they only examined differences in the acceptability of various types of adjective metaphors. This paper explores the cognitive effects evoked by adjective metaphors. Three psychol...