Abstract This paper focuses on two main issues regarding syntactic alternations and their development over time. On the one hand, it discusses diachronic implications of as involving multiple (rather than binary) choices. other shows that while studies are typically interested in emergence alternation relationships, there also cases loss such. is illustrated by zooming history a particular set ...

The paper describes an experimental model of syntactic structure generation starting from the limited fragment of semantics that deals with the quantitative values of object parameters. To present the input information the basic semantic units of four types are proposed:"object", "parameter", "function" and "constant". For the syntactic structure representation the system of syntactic component...

This paper brings together the theoretical framework of construction grammar and studies of verbs in Modern Hebrew to furnish an analysis integrating the form and meaning components of morphological structure. In doing so, this work employs and extends Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG; Bergen and Chang 2005), a computational formalism developed to study grammar from a cognitive linguistic per...

Syntactic and semantic complexities of English partitive constructions have given us many troubles in understanding English NP structures. The paper begins with the classification of partitive NPs into two types based on agreement factors and claims that enriched information on lexical entries can provide feasible generalizations for such constructions while capturing their syntactic and semant...

To produce good utterances from non-trivial inputs a natural language generator should consider many words in parallel, which raises the question of how to handle syntax in a parallel generator. If a generator is incremental and centered on the task of word choice, then the role of syntax is merely to help evaluate the appropriateness of words. One way to do this is to represent syntactic knowl...