Currently the BuTreeBank comprises 214 000 tokens, a little more than 15 000 sentences. Each token is annotated with morphosyntactic information. Additionally the Named Entities are annotated with ontological classes as person, organization, location, and other. Based on HPSG theory the annotation scheme defines a number of phrase types which reflect both the constituent structure and the head-...

Abstract This work investigates the syntax of nominal modification involving linker a in Siwkolan Amis, one dialects an Austronesian language spoken Taiwan. Based on two observed types NP-ellipsis patterns and formal licensing condition, I argue that Amis displays modification. Modifiers direct are functional heads projecting extended projections NP, whereas those indirect modifier phrases base...

In this paper, I argue that not only PPs and adverbs can act as predicates of the event argument of the verb, but certain NPs and certain clauses can, as well. I will give syntactic and semantic arguments that NPs that are cognate objects and clauses of (at least some) nonbridge verbs are optional predicates of the event argument of the verb. With respect to clauses, I will argue that for indep...

Abstract On the basis of original data from Moksha Mordvin (Finno‐Ugric), I argue that some languages have nominal concord even though modifiers noun generally do not show inflection. Evidence for presence comes ellipsis, under which inflection is phonologically realized and restricted in same way as regular concord. To account distribution exponents, develop a model allows features to be prese...

With our experiment, we show how we can detect and annotate clausal coordinate ellipsis with Constraint Grammar rules. We focus on such an elliptical structure in which there are two coordinated clauses, and the latter one lacks a verb. For example, the sentence This belongs to me and that to you demonstrates the ellipsis in question, namely gapping. The Constraint Grammar rules are made for a ...

It is generally held that clausal temporal, aspectual and modal features, when encoded morphologically, are expressed by or on clausal heads. However nominals and modifiers within NP can also be inflected for tense, aspect and modal features interpreted with respect to the clausal predication rather than with respect to the nominal argument itself. Such nominals (and dependents within NP) there...

The puzzle addressed here is the appearance of the POSS sign, pictured at right above, in both attributive (1a) and predicative (2b) possessive constructions.2 Patterns in the morphosyntax and semantics of POSS possessives reveal that the underlying function of POSS across these constructions is that of a verbal predicate. The analysis of POSS as a verbal predicate is transparently supported by...

Discourse deixis is a linguistic phenomenon in which pronouns have verbal or clausal, rather than nominal, antecedents. Studies have estimated that between 5% and 10% of pronouns in non-conversational data are discourse deictic. However, current coreference resolution systems ignore this phenomenon. This paper presents an automatic system for the detection and resolution of discourse-deictic pr...