We present a supervised method for verb sense disambiguation based on VerbNet. Most previous supervised approaches to verb sense disambiguation create a classifier for each verb that reaches a frequency threshold. These methods, however, have a significant practical problem that they cannot be applied to rare or unseen verbs. In order to overcome this problem, we create a single classifier to b...

knowledge of marble bag composition has been triggered by many individual examples of marble bags. More interestingly, this learner was able to have certain expectations about a marble bag containing a novel marble color by learning from bags containing only black or white marbles. Translating this to a linguistic example, suppose the marble bags are individual sentences. Some sentences contain...

This paper analyzes a case of Italian word-formation, in which the semantics of the derived words appears to contain mutually exclusive ambiguities. Italian productively derives verbs of removal from nouns. These verbs have the general semantic form A removes X from Y. However, there are two subtypes that differ in whether the nominal base of the derived verb is taken to be the FIGURE or the GR...

The status of children’s acquisition of grammatical categories and in particular of auxiliaries continues to be debated. On the one hand, a number of corpus studies suggest that auxiliaries and similar categories are absent early on (e.g., Wijnen 1996/1997, Schlyter 2003). On the other hand, experimental studies indicate that syntactic competence for functional categories is available to toddle...

The productivity of lexical categories was studied longitudinally in a sample of 17 young hearing-impaired French-speaking children with cochlear implants. Age of implantation ranged from 22 months to 76 months. Spontaneous speech samples were collected at six-month intervals over a period of 36 months, starting at the one-word stage. Four general measures of their linguistic production (number...

This paper presents an analysis of the Spanish auxiliary verbs from a syntactic point of view instead a semantic analysis that is proposed by the traditional Spanish grammars. The syntactic context of the Spanish auxiliary verbs is clarified with the definition of five properties, which allow us to determinate if a verb behave as an auxiliary verb or not. The subject raising verb type defined i...

Here is a familiar history: modal logics (see [13]) were around for some time before a semantic framework was found for them (by Kripke and others).1 This framework did at least two Very Good Things for modal logics: 1) it connected the powerful mathematical tools of model theory to these logics, allowing a variety of technical results to be proven, and 2) it connected modal logics (more) firml...

This paper examined and compared two corpora in terms of boosters, a category interactional metadiscourse markers. Boosters strengtens the writers' existence, position, argument, claims, commitment into texts. One hundred articles are composed corpora; 50 from non-native researchers’ papers (Turkish writers), native papers. Two were under 4 types boosters: modals (type 1), adjectives adverbs 2)...

Implicit causality is the property of interpersonal verbs to relate two human or animate entities in such a way that one referents assumed have caused action attitude described by verb. This assumption, which has been termed bias and seemingly rooted argument structure verbs, affects remention subsequent pronominalization. paper surveys theoretical psycholinguistic approaches language with focu...