The present study compares the relative effect of inherent lexical aspect and discursive grounding on the use of L2 Spanish Preterit and Imperfect. The study is based on the analysis of responses to a written 40-item discourse-based forced-choice task among 286 English-speaking learners of Spanish. The analysis of data (repeated measures ANOVA) reveals that as learners gain more experience with...

This paper analyzes lexical aspect as the privative features [+dynamic], [+durative] and [+telic], rather than as equipollent features. Aspectual interpretation may therefore be described as monotonic composition of verbs with other constituents: marked verb features may not be changed, whereas unmarked features may become marked by other constituents. This model also predicts the variety of in...

This course sets out with an examination of the role of events in accounting for inferential properties of modification. It presents a model of the logic of modification following the neo-Davidsonian mode of composition but reworking the Davidsonian framework. The approach is shown to accord with more intuitively appealing notions of event individuation and to afford a uniform treatment of indi...

We describe a theoretical investigation into the semantic space described by our interlingua (IL), which currently has 191 main verb classes divided into 434 subclasses, represented by 237 distinct Lexical Conceptual Structures (LCSs). Using the model of aspect in Olsen (1994; 1997)—monotonic aspectual composition—we have identified 71 aspectually basic subclasses that are associated with one o...

We aim at providing an overview and a comparison of multilingual and Machine Translation (MT) related issues that emerge and that are handled within the major European projects in the lexical area (ET-7, Acquilex I and If, Multilex, Genelex, ET-10 Semantic Analysis of Cobuild, ET-10 Collocations, ET-10 Statistical Text-corpora based complements for Eurotra, Delis, Eurolang and Eagles), most of ...

L'acqnisition automatique de connaissance lexicale h partir de larges corpus s'est essentiellement oceup& des phfinom~nes de co-occurrence, aux dfipens des traits lexicaux inh~rents. Nous prfisentons ici une m&hodologie qui permet d'obtenir l'information sfimantique sur l'aspect du verbe en analysa~t automatiquement un corpus et en appliquant des tests linguistiques h l'aide d'une stifle d'outi...

This paper describes the systems submitted by the University of San Francisco (USF) to Semeval-2014 Task 4, Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA), which provides labeled data in two domains, laptops and restaurants. For the constrained condition of both the aspect term extraction and aspect term polarity tasks, we take a supervised machine learning approach using a combination of lexical, synt...

It is more convenient to talk about changes in a domainspecific way than to formulate them at the programming construct level or—even worse—purely lexical level. Using aspect-oriented programming, changes can be modularized and made reapplicable. In this paper, selected change types in web applications are analyzed. They are expressed in terms of general change types which, in turn, are impleme...