We are developing a broad-coverage deep semantic lexicon for a system that parses sentences into a logical form expressed in a rich ontology that supports reasoning. In this paper we look at verb-particle constructions (VPCs), and the extent to which they can be treated compositionally vs idiomatically. First we distinguish between the different types of VPCs based on their compositionality and...

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 work determines the degree of compositionality of German particle verbs by two soft clustering approaches. We assume that the more compositional a particle verb is, the more often it appears in the same cluster with its base verb, after applying a probability threshold to establish cluster membership. As German particle verbs are difficult to approach automatically at the syntax-semantics ...

In recent years many scientific journals noticed an increasing number of submissions of plagiarized papers. The Editor-in-Chief of an important international journal, that receives very many submissions every year, recently privately wrote us “I had to reject on such basis over a dozen of submissions just this year”. The smaller size of our journal limits the number of such situations, but does...

the third person singular enclitic verb /-ast/ which is equivalent to english verb “is” undergoes the highest number of  phonological processes among persian enclitic forms of the verb “boudan” (to be); it changes to [as] in one environment, to [s] in another, and to [e] in four environments. deletion of /t/ is common in all six contexts. these different pronunciations are determined by various...

Particle verbs have challenged linguistic analysis because of their unique and sometimes contradictory characteristics. A verb particle combination behaves like a complex V 0 in some respects. For instance, on the one hand, the semantics of look up (the information) is not compositionally transparent and thus must be stored in the lexicon. Some morphosyntactic properties also indicate that a pa...

This paper discusses the behaviour of German particle verbs formed by two-way prepositions in combination with pleonastic PPs including the verb particle as a preposition. These particle verbs have a characteristic feature: some of them license directional prepositional phrases in the accusative, some only allow for locative PPs in the dative, and some particle verbs can occur with PPs in the a...

a two-dimensional (2d) single particle model for the copolymerization of propylene-ethylene with heterogeneous ziegler-natta catalyst is developed. the model accounts for the effects of the initial shape of the catalyst and carck/ pore patterns on the copolymer composition, polymerization rate and the average molecular weight properties. the spherical and oblate ellipsoidal shapes of catalyst p...

In this paper we report an eye-tracking experiment designed to investigate syntactic and phonological parallelism effects in comprehension. Eye-movements were recorded while participants read sentences that contained particle verb constructions. Each experimental item included a coordinated verb phrase (VP), whose two conjuncts either exhibited parallel syntactic forms in terms of particle plac...