1. Introduction The Budapest Unification Grammar (BUG) system described in this paper is a system for generating natural language parsers from feature-structure based grammatical descriptions (graamnars). In the current version, source grammars are limited to the context-free phrase structure grammar format. BuG compiles source grmnmars into automata, which it can then use for parsing input str...

in contrast to the grammatical category of mood in persian which has been subject to a number of studies, modality as a semantic category has not received the due attention it deserves. this study is fascinated to depict modal functions of tense in persian. in a sense, it tries to take account of the structures used by persian speakers to express their evaluation of the state of affairs. the re...

The paper investigates the future-in-the-past (FiP) as in Peter would (later) see the Fujiyama. FiP can convey an outlook on events that, as the speaker knows, took place later (“objective sense”). FiP can also convey a past utterance or thought of a protagonist. In this perspective-taking sense, FiP sentences share the uncertainty about the future of present tense will-sentences. Kaufmann’s (2...

Autism is characterized by language and communication deficits. We investigated grammatical and lexical processes in high-functioning autism by contrasting the production of regular and irregular past-tense forms. Boys with autism and typically-developing control boys did not differ in accuracy or error rates. However, boys with autism were significantly faster than controls at producing rule-g...

This thesis investigates the nature of the interface between two components of language morphology and phonology in children with Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment (G-SLi), compared to those with typically-developing language. I focus principally on the impact of phonological complexity on past tense inflection, but I also investigate other areas of morphology. More specifically, I show ...

this study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduction section of applied linguistics research articles published in iranian and international journals. a corpus of 20 research article introductions (10 from each journal) was used. the corpus was analysed for the syntactic features (tense, aspect and voice) and semantic meaning of verbs. the finding...