This paper describes an investigation of some potential features for a statistical approach to inferring the semantics of verb-particle constructions from corpus data. Verb-particles cause particular problems for the computational semantic analysis of language, because their meaning often cannot be derived through the usual compositional methods of analysis. Two novel techniques are presented w...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Impaired generation of verbs relative to nouns has been reported in Parkinson's disease (PD) and has been associated with the frontal pathophysiology of PD. The aim of the present study was to measure noun/verb generation abilities in PD and to determine whether noun/verb generation is affected by stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN). PATIENTS AND METHODS 8 partici...

Children and adults are guided by verb-specific syntactic likelihoods, or verb bias, in language comprehension and production. Recent reports showed that verb bias can be altered by new linguistic experience. We investigated the mechanisms underlying this verb bias learning or adaptation. Specifically, we asked whether verb bias learning, like abstract syntactic priming, is driven by error-base...

It has generally been agreed that a verb feature on v necessitates overt short movement of the verb to the head of vP (see Bailyn 1995 for arguments). However, the verb feature on T has been an issue of longstanding debate in Russian linguistics. In order to derive various temporal references, the verb feature on T must be checked by the verb (Chomsky 2001). So the question arises whether this ...

This paper will be a short examination of the notions of support verbs (e.g. ‘make’) and predicative nouns (e.g. ‘estimation’ ). A support verb and a predicative noun form a support verb construction (e.g. ‘Peter made an estimation of the damage’). The governing element in a support verb construction is the predicative noun whereas in a phrase like ‘Peter wanted an estimation of the damage’ , t...

the ambient vibration measurement is a kind of output data-only dynamic testing where the traffics and winds are used as agents responsible for natural or environmental excitation. therefore an experimental modal analysis procedure for ambient vibration testing needs to base itself on output-only data. the modal analysis involving output-only measurements present a challenge that requires the u...

There are at least two kinds of methods of designing (computational) verb proportional-integral-derivative(PID) controllers. The first one is to generalize fuzzy PID controllers by substituting “BE” in fuzzy control rules with non-static computational verbs. The second one is to directly construct evolving functions of verbs in human experiences of dynamic processes. These methods will lead to ...

This article presents clustering experiments on German verbs: A statistical grammar model for German serves as the source for a distributional verb description at the lexical syntax–semantics interface, and the unsupervised clustering algorithm k-means uses the empirical verb properties to perform an automatic induction of verb classes. Various evaluation measures are applied to compare the clu...

Makassarese language belongs to the Austronesian family, currently spoken as a mother by group of people in South Sulawesi province, eastern Indonesia. This research focuses on personal pronoun organization sentence construction language. The form, position, and function pronouns sentences are explained. It used ‘simak’ (to-observe) method form conversational involved-observation technique incl...