In relevance-theoretic pragmatics, lexical adjustment, or ad hoc-concept construction, is considered a case of free pragmatic enrichment. It hence included within the group non-linguistically mandated processes that are automatically carried out during comprehension. Its output an inferentially-specified representation conceptual content encoded, activated, by open-class words like nouns, adjec...

This study explored the effects of prosodic boundaries on the comprehension of temporarily and globally ambiguous sentences in Korean. Previous work on English, Japanese, and Korean has demonstrated that prosodic structures can carry critical information about the meaning and/or syntactic structures of spoken sentences (Kjelgaard and Speer 1999; Jun and Oh 1996; Misono et al. 1997; Venditti 199...

This paper presents a comprehensive description of non-finite verbs in Assamese, language that belongs to the Indo-Aryan family. Non-finite exist multi-verb constructions, which include both single and multi-clausal constructions. In clauses, they occur with different auxiliaries carry various aspectual modal meanings. on other hand, dependent clauses mark syntactic relations have main clause. ...

This article aims to investigate grammatical metaphor representation in news item text of Jakarta Post. research was conducted by applying a descriptive design. The data were taken from Post entitled “BREAKING: 189 people on downed Lion Air flight, ministry says.” published October 29, 2018 sites. then analyzed coding the lexical as congruent and incongruent ones. From Post, finding is Represen...

Accurate identification of phrasal translation equivalents is critical to both phrase-based and syntax-basedmachine translation systems. We show that the extraction of many phrasal translation equivalents is made impossible by word alignments done without taking syntactic structures into consideration. To address the problem, we propose a new annotation scheme where word alignment and the align...