We present an unsupervised method for canonicalizing joshi (postpositions) in Japanese. Some postpositions in Japanese do not specify semantic roles explicitly as case markers do, although those postpositions syntactically behave as the case markers. Such postpositions includes “wa,” which topicalizes noun phrases, and “mo,” which emphasizes noun phrases. For this paper, we replaced these postp...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a finite-state syntactic grammar of Basque that has been used with the objective of extracting information about verb subcategorization instances from newspaper texts. After a partial parser has built basic syntactic units such as noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and sentential complements, a finite-state parser performs syntactic disambi...

the grammarians have mentioned fourteen meanings for the letter bā’, which at least in five cases it is applied in substitute for another letter (fī, min, ‘an, ‘alā, ilā). is this application simply a substitution or a higher purpose is intended by it? it is to be noted that the qur’ān is divine word and his everlasting sign and it is not possible that in two identical phrases two different let...

The current paper argues that the phenomenon in Japanese that case phrases occur without their head verb before the finite complementizer would falsify the HPSG valence/content analysis, for example, in Sag 1997, Pollard and Sag 1994, if no phantom relation corresponding to a verb is used in the syntax or semantics. The HPSG valence/content analysis is that the content of a case phrase structur...

The cognitive and neural systems that enable conceptual processing must support the ability to combine (and recombine) concepts to form an infinite number of ideas. Two candidate neural systems for conceptual combination-the left anterior temporal lobe (ATL) and the left angular gyrus (AG)-have been characterized as "semantic hubs" due to both functional and anatomical properties; however, thes...

A method to identify the subcategorized constituents of a verb (its complements) automatically in a sentence is useful in various areas of Natural Language Processing (e.g. automatic acquisition of subcategorization lexicons, parsing, acquisition of verb semantics, information retrieval). I will describe a method for subcategorization identification that uses memorybased learning. Train and tes...

The present paper attempts to formalize the semantic interpretation of resultative phrases in Japanese in the framework of Generative Lexicon, with a focus on the semantic subject of resultative phrases, i.e. the entity which resultative phrases are predicated of. The semantic subject cannot always be identified with the direct object of transitive verbs or the subject of unaccusative verbs, as...