The derivation of unbounded Subject-to-Subject Raising in languages like English is a problem particularly elegantly treated by Tree Adjoining Grammar. The adjoining operation inserts auxiliary trees headed by raising verbs between the subject in SpecIP and the root verb, distancing the subject from its original local relationshlp with the root verb and producing a final multi-clausal structure...

It has been analyzed that the word order of English comparative inversion is analogous to that of other subject-auxiliary inversions in that only a finite auxiliary verb can be followed by the subject. However, English comparative inversion should be distinguished from other inversions because the subject can be located between a cluster of auxiliary verbs and the non-auxiliary verb phrase in E...

Recent ERP findings challenge the widespread assumption that syntactic and semantic processes are tightly coupled. Syntactically well-formed sentences that are semantically anomalous due to thematic mismatches elicit a P600, the component standardly associated with syntactic anomaly. This 'thematic P600' effect has been attributed to detection of semantically plausible thematic relations that c...

Our research is motivated by the observation that NLP systems frequently mislabel passive voice verb phrases as being in the active voice when there is no auxiliary verb (e.g., “The man arrested had a long record”). These errors directly impact thematic role recognition and NLP applications that depend on it. We present a learned classifier that can accurately identify reduced passive voice con...

This paper describes auxiliary verb constructions in European Portuguese in view of their correct parsing in a fully integrated NLP chain. The paper provides data on these constructions over a large-sized corpus and evaluates the parsing system performance.

In human discourse there is much that is communicated without being explicitly stated. The grammar of natural language provides a broad array of mechanisms for such implicit communication. One example of this is verb phrase ellipsis, in which a verb phrase is elided, its position marked only by an auxiliary verb. Such elliptical constructions are generally easily and unambiguously understood. I...

The standard HPSG analysis of Germanic verb clusters can not explain the observed narrowscope readings of adjuncts in such verb clusters. We present an extension of the HPSG analysis that accounts for the systematic ambiguity of the scope of adjuncts in verb cluster constructions, by treating adjuncts as members of the sul)eat list. The extension uses powerNl reeursive lexical rules, implemente...

Motivations for final position and for enclitic position: On the placing of the inflected verb in historical Basque Modern Basque (and historical Basque as a whole; generalized attestations start in the 16 century) is a XXIV-type language in Greenberg’s (1966) classification; that is, a non-rigid SOV language with Gen-N order and postpositions, but with N-Adj order. In the present work, I exami...

There is a growing interest in investigating what neural NLP models learn about language. A prominent open question the of whether or not it necessary to model hierarchical structure. We present linguistic investigation parser adding insights this question. look at transitivity and agreement information auxiliary verb constructions (AVCs) comparison finite main verbs (FMVs). This motivated by t...

Purpose: This study was designed to examine the early usage patterns of multiple grammatical functions of DO in children with and without SLI. Children’s use of this plurifunctional form is informative for evaluation of theoretical accounts of the deficit in SLI. Methods: Spontaneous uses of multiple functions of DO were analyzed in language samples from 89 children, 37 children with SLI age 5;...