Based on Johnson's (1994) across-the-board (ATB) movement analysis of Gapping, Agbayani and Zoerner (2004) argue that Gapping involves the application of sideward movement of the main verb out of coordinate structures. In this paper, I show that the verb movement analyses of Gapping are problematic. Ultimately, I maintain that Gapping is a discourse-oriented variant of TP ellipsis. More precise...

The Arden Syntax is an HL7 standard language for representing medical knowledge as logic statements. Despite nearly 2 decades of availability, Arden Syntax has not been widely used. This has been attributed to the lack of a generally available compiler to implement the logic, to Arden's complex syntax, to the challenges of mapping local data to data references in the Medical Logic Modules (MLMs...

This article develops an analysis of a pair of morphological alternations in K'ichee' (Mayan) that are conditioned at the right edge of intonational phrase boundaries. I propose a syntax-prosody mapping algorithm that derives intonational phrase boundaries from the surface syntax, and then argue that each alternation can be understood in terms of output optimization (Mascaró 2007; Mester 1994)....

The paper introduces Verificator, our learning programming interface aimed for learning programming in C++ at the university beginners’ level. In teaching programming some specific problems concerning the teaching itself as well as the organization of the teaching process need to be considered. One of the biggest problems is that students tend to adopt certain bad programming habits in their at...

Abstract Non-finite complementation strategies found in American Norwegian (AmNo) (made available by the Corpus of Nordic Speech (CANS)) reveal unique and diverging patterns when compared to both standard dialectal English. We argue this paper that majority these divergent structures are result overextension (Rinke & Flores, 2014; Rinke et al., 2018; Putnam Hoffman, 2021; Kupisch, 2014), wh...

Ever since Constantino’s (1965) study on the different sentence patterns of Philippine languages appeared, most of the studies regarding the sentence structure only dealt with the problem in pure syntactic terms. In fact, Constantino’s classic paper merely listed the different types of sentences that are found in the various Philippine languages. The most recent study on Tagalog gave an attempt...

In this work we introduce event-driven grammars, a kind of graph grammars that are especially suited for visual modelling environments generated by meta-modelling. Rules in these grammars may be triggered by user actions (such as creating, editing or connecting elements) and in its turn may trigger other user-interface events. Its combination with (non-monotonic) triple graph grammars allows co...

The prevalent method in theoretical syntax and semantics research involves obtaining a judgment of the acceptability of a sentence ⁄meaning pair, typically by just the author of the paper, sometimes with feedback from colleagues. The weakness of the traditional non-quantitative single-sentence ⁄ single-participant methodology, along with the existence of cognitive and social biases, has the unw...