Early work on quantification in natural languages showed that sentences like Every ape picked different berries, on the reading that the sets of berries picked by any two apes are not the same, can be logically represented with a single polyadic quantifier for the two nominal phrases. However, since that quantifier cannot be decomposed into two quantifiers for the two nominal phrases, a composi...

Traditionally. the syntax-semantics interface has been characterized by the projection of verb arguments onto the level of syntax based on (lexical semantic) information associated with the verb (Jackendoff, 1990; Levin, 1993; Van Valin, 1993). The assumption in current approaches is that the rules linking arguments to syntactic positions are universal. This implies that verbs with similar lexi...

In this paper we discuss motivations and strategies for generalising over instance-based frame assignment rules that we extract from frame-annotated corpora. Corpus-induced syntax-semantics mapping rules for frame assignment can be used for automatic semantic role labelling of unparsed text, but further, to extract linguistic knowledge for a lexical semantic resource with a general syntax-seman...

syntax complexity and various ideas of syntax proponents created challenges to teaching it from first centuries of arabic language development. therefore, most of scholars attempted to resolve problems planning new models and compilation of new effects. one of them include of ehyah al-nahw that is written by ebrahim mostafa in 1937. publieation of this book leads to create challenges to opposit...

The main contributions enclosed within this paper refer to: (i) A general view on the syntax-prosody interface, the nonisomorphism between the two facets of the language being conjectured as a proper subsumption mapping between syntax and prosody; (ii) Implementation of the TopicFocus Articulation (TFA) algorithm for the Romanian sentence, with novelties on Intonational TFA and interrogative se...

This article describes the educational tool VAST. We designed VAST to be used in compiler and language processing courses. The current version allows generating and visualizing syntax trees and their construction process. The main advantages of VAST follow: it is designed to be as independent from the parser generator as possible, it allows students to visualize the behavior of parsers they dev...

A promising line of research in the interaction between syntax and semantics has been open by the work on Continuation Semantics started by [1] and [5] and further explored by [8]. Work done within Curry Howard Correspondence to Classical Logic has brought to the attention the duality distinction holding between terms and contexts (or co-terms), and can help further shaping the syntax-semantics...

This paper presents the OWL API a high level Application Programming Interface (API) for working with OWL 2 ontologies. The API is closely aligned with the OWL 2 structural specification. It supports parsing and rendering in the syntaxes defined in the W3C specification, namely, the Functional Syntax, RDF/XML, OWL/XML and the Manchester OWL Syntax. Finally, the reference implementation of the A...

This paper shows that clausal possession in Isbukun Bunun, a Formosan language, involves two distinct structures with one single thematic interpretation. Although thematically identical, the are not derived via agreement/movement from underlying structure. To best capture (morpho)syntactic patterns within and beyond phenomenon, too-many-structures problem is analyzed as involving syntactic head...

The aim of this paper is to explore some aspects of the syntax-semantics interface representations which correspond to expletive negation (EN) and negative concord (NC). I shall postulate that a syntactic operation of logical absorption, conceived as feature checking, is needed in the theory of grammar in order to account for both phenomena. EN instantiates a nonnegative context; it will be cha...