After receiving research ethics approval from the review boards at three teaching hospitals affiliated with two universities in urban Ontario, Canada, we asked clinical and educational leaders in each hospital to identify inter-professional clinical health care teams with reputations for strong collaborations and managerial/administrative support. These prepositions require the reader to sift t...

We propose a number of unsupervised methods for extracting prepositional verbs (e.g. refer to, look for) from corpus data, based on linguistic tests and/or statistical measures. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the individual techniques over a prepositional verb deep lexical acquisition task, and go on to document the successes of an unsupervised classifier combination method.

One of the ways to achieve a good translation of verbal forms is the morphosp~tactic approach, which consists in a function pairing the different morphological tenses that occur in a given language with the tenses of the other language. Complicated rules must be established to calculate the right pair for an expression, because of the amount of discrepancies that differmnt languages show with r...

In German, prosody interacts with quantifier scope. We investigate this interaction in inverse linking constructions. We present evidence from elicited production of linguistically naive speakers supporting the following two claims: 1) There are two kinds of inverse linking constructions of which only the prepositional type requires a marked intonation contour for inverse scope. 2) In the prepo...