This article addresses the distinction amongst adpositions between those which are lexical and functional. The uses a corpus linguistic approach to address outstanding questions: whether there two distinct subclasses of adposition, is continuum adpositions, how— by what properties— functional distinguished. argues for primarily semantic, multifaceted best understood as continuum. argued be quit...

Abstract Non-finite complementation strategies found in American Norwegian (AmNo) (made available by the Corpus of Nordic Speech (CANS)) reveal unique and diverging patterns when compared to both standard dialectal English. We argue this paper that majority these divergent structures are result overextension (Rinke & Flores, 2014; Rinke et al., 2018; Putnam Hoffman, 2021; Kupisch, 2014), wh...

In this programmatic paper, we articulate a minimalist conception of linguistic composition, syntactic and semantic, with the aim of identifying fundamental operations invoked by the human faculty of language (HFL). 1. Introduction For these purposes, we take it as given that humans have such a faculty, stable states of which can be described as I-languages in Chomsky's (1986) sense. Idealizing...

The design of a natural language understanding system is dependent on a rich and structured knowledge representation. Much recent work in computational and cognitive linguistics has focused on representations for syntactic and morphological knowledge. Similarly, the knowledge representation paradigm has proposed many conceptual tools for the representation of semantic knowledge. Combining the t...

The relation between syntax and semantics of natural language can be regarded as a constraint. With the ideas from Channel Theory (Barwise 1993, Barwise and Seligman 1994), the way that an utterance represents a situation can be captured as a linguistic channel. To study the operational aspects of such a channel, we construct it as a system of communicating processes by turning to the -calculus...