Professor Gunji's book continues the tradition of explicitness in linguistic description so well demonstrated by Gazdar, Klein, Pullum, and Sag (1985) (GKPS). In theoretical orientation, too, there is a heavy debt to the latter. The details, however, show a certain trend towards the lexicalist position exemplified in theories such as head-driven phrase-structure grammar (Pollard and Sag 1987), ...

We propose a new method for detecting verb alternations, by comparing the probability distributions over WordNet classes occurring in two potentially alternating argument positions. Existing distance measures compute only the distributional distance, and do not take into account the semantic similarity between WordNet senses across the distributions. Our method compares two probability distribu...

Manning, C.D. and Sag, I. A. 1998 Argument Structure, Valence, and Binding Nordic Journal of Linguistics This paper develops within HPSG a model of grammar with two syntactic levels, valence lists and argument structure, at which sentences may have di erent representations: syntactically ergative and Western Austronesian languages are distinctive by allowing di erent prominence orderings betwee...