In noun phrase (NP) coordinate constructions (e.g., NP and NP), there is a strong tendency for the syntactic structure of the second conjunct to match that of the first; the second conjunct in such constructions is therefore low in syntactic information. The theory of uniform information density predicts that low-information syntactic constructions will be counterbalanced by high information in...

Cross-linguistically, missing object constructions are sometimes analyzed as involving long-distance dependencies, similar to the dependencies found in whquestion or relative clause constructions. Other missing object constructions have been analyzed as involving complex predicate formation. We propose that both classes of missing object constructions are found in English, exemplified by the ca...

This paper brings together the theoretical framework of construction grammar and studies of verbs in Modern Hebrew to furnish an analysis integrating the form and meaning components of morphological structure. In doing so, this work employs and extends Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG; Bergen and Chang 2005), a computational formalism developed to study grammar from a cognitive linguistic per...

This paper describes a cognitively plausible mechanism for systematically handling complex syntactic constructions within a semantic parser. More speciically, we show how these constructions are handled without a global syntactic grammar or syntactic parse tree representations and without sacriicing the beneets of semantically-oriented parsing. We evaluate the psychological validity of our arch...