Systemic functional grammar constructs a grammar for the purpose of text analysis to investigate how grammar is used as a means of making meaning. Grammatical metaphor is one of the language phenomena introduced by Halliday (2004) in the framework of functional grammar. The present work focuses on the application of Halliday’s metafunctional framework in health texts of English newspapers. The ...

Frequencies and discourse functions of grammatical subject types were investigated in a corpus of forty results and discussion sections selected from four disciplines (Applied Linguistics, Psychology, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering). The results and discussion sections were selected from research articles that were published in 2008-2012 issues of prestigious high journals of ...

Assessment  of  grammatical  knowledge  is  a  rather  neglected  area  of  research  in  the  field with  many  open  questions  (Purpura,  2004).  The  present  research  incorporates  recent proposals  about  the  nature  of  grammatical  development  to  create  a  framework  consisting of dimensions of complexity, range and strength, and studies which dimension(s) can best predict the stat...

Unsupervised learning algorithms have been derived for several statistical models of English grammar, but their computational complexity makes applying them to large data sets intractable. This paper presents a probabilistic model of English grammar that is much simpler than conventional models, but which admits an efficient EM training algorithm. The model is based upon grammatical bigrams, i....

The aim of this paper is to investigate morphological and syntactical levels of sentences of Croatian Language. Morphological grammatical level is represented by 16 categories and 47 features with theirs value. Syntactical level is represented with constituent structure trees of sentences. Database has 1001 grammatical sentences of Croatian literature. Database of sentences is the result of the...

This study uses self-organizing feature maps to model the acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect. Previous research has identified a strong association between lexical aspect and grammatical aspect in child language, on the basis of which some researchers proposed innate semantic categories (Bickerton, 1984) or prelinguistic semantic space (Slobin, 1985). Our simulations indicate that th...

Sentence compression is a task of generating a grammatical short sentence from an original sentence, retaining the most important information. The existing methods of removing the constituents in the parse tree of an original sentence cannot deal with recursive structures which appear in the parse tree. This paper proposes a method to remove such structure and generate a grammatical short sente...

A new framework for the study of the human moral faculty is currently receiving much attention: the so-called 'universal moral grammar' framework. It is based on an intriguing analogy, first pointed out by Rawls, between the study of the human moral sense and Chomsky's research program into the human language faculty. To assess UMG, we ask: is moral competence modular? Does it have an underlyin...

This study investigated the relationship between complex grammatical structures and complex action sequences. A developmental progression of strategies for combining seriated cups identified in an earlier study (Greenfield et al., 1972) was used to demonstrate some psychological consequences of formal parallels between language and action. The role of grammatical complexity and situational stru...

Recent advances of research on non-coding RNAs (nc-RNAs) reveal that they are more numerous and important than previously thought ([8][5], etc.). In order to find new members of nc-RNA families, there have been proposed various powerful grammatical tools which can model both primary sequences and secondary structure information ([7][4][9][2], etc.). In order to develop a full automatic grammati...