This paper confirms that the English verb system (similar to the Finnish, Dutch, and Bulgarian verb systems [17, 22]) represents path curvature at three different grain levels: neutral path curvature, global path curvature, and local path curvature. We show that the three-grain-level hypothesis makes it possible to formulate constraints on English sentence structure and makes it possible to def...

Previous studies of spoken picture naming using event-related potentials (ERPs) have shown that speakers initiate lexical access within 200ms after stimulus onset. In the present study, we investigated the time course of lexical access in written, rather than spoken, word production. Chinese participants wrote target object names which varied in word frequency, and written naming times and ERPs...

In this paper, we describe a coreference solver based on the extensive use of lexical features and features extracted from dependency graphs of the sentences. The solver uses Soon et al. (2001)’s classical resolution algorithm based on a pairwise classification of the mentions. We applied this solver to the closed track of the CoNLL 2011 shared task (Pradhan et al., 2011). We carried out a syst...

Recent works on parsing have reported that the lexicalization does not have a serious role for parsing accuracy. Latent-annotation methods such as PCFG-LA are one of the most promising un-lexicalized approaches, and reached the-state-of-art performance. However, most works on latent annotation have investigated only PCFG formalism, without considering the Collins’ popular head-driven model, tho...

The objective of this work is to conduct a corpus-based diachronic investigation lexicalization patterns motion events as well attention manner in Arabic narrative writing. Motivated by the scarcity research on events, study aims identify main linguistic constructions used express novels and more importantly investigate whether shift salience has taken place last hundred years. draws Talmy’s fr...

PCFGs can grow exponentially as additional annotations are added to an initially simple base grammar. We present an approach where multiple annotations coexist, but in a factored manner that avoids this combinatorial explosion. Our method works with linguisticallymotivated annotations, induced latent structure, lexicalization, or any mix of the three. We use a structured expectation propagation...

There is a widespread belief among linguists that a predicate's subcategorization frames are largely determined by its lexical-semantic properties [23, 11, 12]. Consider the domain of movement verbs. Following Talmy [23], these can he semantically classified with reference to the meaning components: MOTION, MANNER, CAUSATION, THEME (MOVING ENTITY), PATH AND REFERENCE LOCATIONS (GOAL, SOURCE). L...

This paper addresses serial verb constructions (SVCs) in English and Mandarin. Although Mandarin and English is different in the total number of SVC types, three so-called SVC types are found to be common across English and Mandarin: purposive SVCs (e.g. go eat); causative SVCs (e.g. I made him laugh); perceptive SVCs (e.g. I saw him laugh). This paper has demonstrated typical SVCs have unique ...

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), a unification-based formal language for describing linguistic phenomena, has a declarative semantics which makes it amenable to specification as a logic program. The HPSG formalism has undergone significant modification, becoming more declarative and incorporating greater lexicalization, since Proudian and Pollard first introduced a LISP-based HPSG c...