The compositionality of particle verbs is a matter of dispute. The following paper will show that the semantics of German particle verbs is the combination of verb semantics and particle semantics. For this purpose, the verb particle an was analyzed and turned out to be highly ambiguous. Still, it can be systematically reconstructed. The different meanings resulting out of this ambiguity were g...

This paper provides a binary, token-based classification of German particle verbs (PVs) into literal vs. non-literal usage. A random forest improving standard features (e.g., bagof-words; affective ratings) with PV-specific information and abstraction over common nouns significantly outperforms the majority baseline. In addition, PV-specific classification experiments demonstrate the role of sh...

This article presents a distributional approach to predict the compositionality of German particle verbs by modelling changes in syntactic argument structure. We justify the experiments on theoretical grounds and employ GermaNet, Topic Models and Singular Value Decomposition for generalization, to compensate for data sparseness. Evaluating against three human-rated gold standards, our finegrain...

In this paper we investigate the phenomenon of verb-particle constructions, discussing their characteristics and their availability for use with NLP systems. We concentrate in particular on the coverage provided by some electronic resources. Given the constantly growing number of verb-particle combinations, possible ways of extending the coverage of the available resources are investigated, tak...

This project deals with verb-particle constructions (VPCs) in the context of statistical machine translation, with the purpose of finding out if and to what degree they affect translation quality in English and German. Its main goal is to identify which types of VPCs cause translation errors and to find possible solutions to this problem. VPCs are a type of multiword expressions (MWEs), meaning...

The present study is a corpus-based investigation of syntactic priming, i.e. the tendency to reuse syntactic constructions. On the basis of data from the ICE-GB corpus, I analyze two different pairs of syntactic patterns, the so-called dative alternation and particle placement of transitive phrasal verbs. Although it has sometimes been argued that only experimental data can contribute to studie...

The Thai particle thı̂i introduces relative clauses and noun-complement clauses, but does not introduce clausal complements of verbs. This paper provides a unified analysis for these two noun phraseinternal clauses as modifiers, proposing that thı̂i is a compementizer which is interpreted as a lambdaoperator that derives CP-sized properties. This analysis is extended to the use of thı̂i in factive...