Compound noun has the similar structure to a simple sentence, for example, predicate-argument structure in many cases, as well as it represents compound meaning with several nouns combined. In this paper, we suggest a new method to analyze Korean noun phrases with posessive and compound nouns by using the statistical model based on verb-noun co-occurrence relations and word collocations between...

This paper describes the fuzzy boundaries between support verb constructions (SVC) with ter “have” and dar “give” and causative operator verb (VopC) constructions involving these same verbs, in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), which form a complex set of relations: (i) both verbs are the support verb of the same noun (SVC); (ii) dar is the standard (active-like) SVC while ter is a converse (passive-l...

This paper aims at a lexical description of frequent uses of frequent lexical verbs in Swedish on the background of Czech, with some implications for the lexical description of such verb uses verbs in general. It results in a draft of a production lexicon of Swedish frequent verbs for advanced Czech learners of Swedish, with focus on their uses as light verbs. The introductory sections (1 and 2...

Position changes in Chinese phrase are explained with light verb assumption in Generative Grammar. With regards to the idea that light verb is a hypothetical element, this study attempted to find the brain neural correlates in positions changes of Chinese phrases and whether this processing is launched by light verb or not. The results show that these phrases which can change the positions acti...

There has been a hot debate on the typological status of Mandarin Chinese in Talmyan framework of Verb-framed languages (V-languages) and Satellite-framed Languages(S-languages). However, most previous studies focus on motion events, while other macro-events (Talmy, 2000) receive little attention. The present study aims to investigate event of realization in Mandarin Chinese with experimental m...

An essential component of Language Engineering (LE) tools are verb class descriptors that provide information about the relations of the predicates to their arguments. The production of computationally tractable language resources necessitates the assignment of types of predicate-argument relations to a great variety of verb-centered structures: it is necessary to define not only the initial, c...

Abstract In this paper I review the Neo-Davidsonian semantics of prepositional phrases and secondary predication. argue that certain types examples pose challenge to semantics. present an alternative analysis which successfully deals with problematic examples. The core idea lies in representing theta-roles not as functions from events their participants, but rather argument-labels encoding role...