despite the body of research on textbook evaluation from the discourse analysis perspective, cohesive devices have rarely been analyzed in english for specific purposes (esp) textbooks. the acquisition and use of cohesive devices is inherent to naturalistic communication, including business interactions. hence, l2 learners of business english should be exposed to these devices through cohesion-...

The central claim of this dissertation is that an elliptical VP is a proform. This claim has two primary consequences: first, the elliptical VP can have no internal syntactic structure. Second, the interpretation of VP ellipsis must be governed by the same general conditions governing other proforms, such as pronouns. The basic condition governing the interpretation of a proform is that it must...

Initial experiments in learning valence (subcategorisation) frames of Polish verbs from a morphosyntactically annotated corpus are reported here. The learning algorithm consists of a linguistic module, responsible for very simple shallow parsing of the input text (nominal and prepositional phrase recognition) and for the identification of valence frame cues (hypotheses), and a statistical modul...

Although ellipsis is a highly pervasive phenomenon in natural language, its function has largely remained a mystery. While the use of ellipsis can make a sentence more difficult to understand, sometimes the reverse is true. Using ellipsis sometimes is the best way, or even the only way, to express a given meaning. Ellipsis can restrict possible readings, express otherwise ineffable meanings, cl...

An algorithm is proposed to determine antecedents for VP ellipsis. The algorithm eliminates impossible antecedents, and then imposes a preference ordering on possible antecedents. The algorithm performs with 94% accuracy on a set of 304 examples of VP ellipsis collected from the Brown Corpus. The problem of determining antecedents for VP ellipsis has received little attention in the literature,...

In this study, we examine exocentric compounds in Berom; a minority Niger-Congo language that is spoken parts of central Nigeria and describe the structural semantic properties N-V compounds. Basically, study designed to achieve three aims: contribute documentation Berom, provide classification semantics Contrary nominalization process defining lexical class languages, show Berom compounding, v...

This article discusses the nature of Estonian aspect and case, proposing an analysis of Estonian verbal aspect, aspectual case, and clausal aspect. The focus is on the interaction of transitive telic verbs (write, win) and aspectual case at the level of the functional structure. The main discussion concerns the relationships between aspect and the object case alternation. The data set comprises...

Universal Dependencies (UD) is a project that is developing crosslinguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages, with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning and linguistic research from a language typology perspective. It is a merger and extension of several previous efforts aimed at finding unified approaches to parts of speech, morph...

While we agree that the base-generated phonologically null nominal known as PRO has Case, we dispute the recent contention of Chomsky & Lasnik (1995) and Martin(2001) that there is a special Null Case, assigned in English by certain instances of infinitival to. We show that, contrary to Martin’s claims, there is no consistent distinction between instances of to that license PRO, and instances o...