It is commonly said that adjectives are a kind of word that people use for emitting their opinion. This is because this lexical category designates the qualities of an entity. However, there are different ways to express an explicit opinion besides the use of adjectives. People also can choose verbs, nouns, adverbs and even groups of words that have complex meaning, like idioms or other multi-w...

I wiIrpresent a system under development, called LP-DETECT. The system detects and analyses Swedish lexicalised phrases (LPs) in order to enhance subsequent parsing. LPs are one of a number of stumbling blocks related to word sequences that must be dealt with when parsing unrestricted text. LPs include semantic idioms, syntactic idioms and morphological idioms and so called valency breaking LPs...

Much surviving 16th-century instrumental music consists of arrangements (‘intabulations’) of vocal music, in tablature for solo lute. Intabulating involved deciding what to omit from a score to fit the instrument, and making it fit under the hand. Notes were usually added as embellishments to the original plain score, using idiomatic patterns, typically at cadences, but often filling simple int...

What does it tell us about the conceptual structures underlying language use that a language can use ”prick the law” but not ”sing the law” to mean ”break the law”? Some theorists have speculated about the existence of conceptual primitives, which permeate the meaning of all words in any language (Schank, 1975, Mandler, 2004). If this premise is correct, then these concepts could also be used t...

Metaphors in idioms are universal in languages. The progression from conceptual meaning to metaphorical meaning is a cognitive activity of mapping from one thing to another. This paper, based on the analysis of 2,347 metaphorical idioms, their linguistic features, grammatical structures, grammatical functions, and semantic categories, tries to identify categories of metaphorical idioms. Most of...

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This paper proposes a generation method for feature-structured)ased unification grammars. As comlx~red with fixed ~rity term notation, feature structure notation is more tlexible for representing knowledge needed to generate idiom~ttic structures as well as genem~l constructions. The method enables feature strncture retrieval via nmltiple indices. The indexing mechanism, when used with a semant...

Instrumental improvisation in Turkish makam music, the taksim, is considered to be free-rhythm, that is its rhythm develops without the underlying template of a meter or continuous organized pulsation. In this paper, we want to examine how in this setting, rhythmic idioms are formed and maintained throughout a performance. For this, we will apply a simple signal processing approach. We show dif...

We present a computational framework for chord invention based on a cognitive-theoretic perspective on conceptual blending. The framework builds on algebraic specifications, and solves two musicological problems. It automatically finds transitions between chord progressions of different keys or idioms, and it substitutes chords in a chord progression by other chords of a similar function, as a ...