only two voices have been represented in italian grammar. if we look at the passive constructions from a pragmatic point of view, it can be seen as a language strategy being classified as an event. this change of perspective creates different structures. in this article we shall study a speaker’s change of perspective in attention to the valence theory. according to this theory, a verb on the b...

In this talk, we are going to give a systematic view of lexical semantics of Chinese language. From macro perspective point of view, lexical conceptual meanings are classified into hierarchical semantic types and each type plays some particular semantic functions of Host, Attribute, and Value to form a semantic compositional system. Lexical senses and their compositional functions will be exemp...

In this talk, we are going to give a systematic view of lexical semantics of Chinese language. From macro perspective point of view, lexical conceptual meanings are classified into hierarchical semantic types and each type plays some particular semantic functions of Host, Attribute, and Value to form a semantic compositional system. Lexical senses and their compositional functions will be exemp...

Similarities and contrasts in punctuation systems the use of commas subordinate nouns relative clauses Spanish Polish The objective article is twofold. On one hand, it aims to briefly compare definitions marks Polish, justify their syntactic-logical function from a diachronic point view, graphic representations both languages. other attempts compare, more detail, comma substantive languages, st...

Work in experimental psycholinguistics has shown that the processing of coordinate structures is facilitated when the two conjuncts share the same syntactic structure [Frazier, L., Munn, A., & Clifton, C. (2000). Processing coordinate structures. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29(4) 343-370]. In the present paper, we argue that this parallelism effect is a specific case of the more gener...

Speakers often repeat syntactic structures that have recently been used by them or their interlocutors. Such syntactic persistence has variously been attributed to social causes (mimicking to be well-liked), to an effort to reduce processing costs, or as a side effect of either transient activation of previously processed structure or implicit learning. We present new evidence from syntactic pe...

When we read or listen to language, we are faced with the challenge of inferring intended messages from noisy input. This challenge is exacerbated by considerable variability between and within speakers. Focusing on syntactic processing (parsing), we test the hypothesis that language comprehenders rapidly adapt to the syntactic statistics of novel linguistic environments (e.g., speakers or genr...

1. Introduction This paper presents psycholinguistic data from three magnitude estimation experiments that suggest a syntactic parallelism condition on VP ellipsis (VPE) that can be modulated by discourse coherence, and applies to VPE both within and across sentences. Section 1 will outline some of the arguments for and against syntactic and semantic accounts of VPE, and lay out the predictions...

Patent machine translation is one of main target areas of current practical MT systems. Patent documents have their own peculiar description style. Especially, abstracts or claims in patent documents are characterized by their long and complex syntactic structures, which are often caused by coordination. So, syntactic analysis of patent documents requires special treatment for coordination. Thi...