In this paper we discuss particular choices we made during the development of a rule-based syntactic text simplification system. Such choices concern 1) how to deal with adverbial phrases in order to simplify sentences, and 2) the order in which to apply our set of simplification rules. Adverbial phrases have not been considered by previous work on text simplification, but have a considerable i...

1.0. Introduction I was motivated to conduct this study by an almost omnipresent, multi-functional, and sometimes semantically illusive marker jiu in verbal interactions. Almost all the linguists who study jiu put jiu and cai together and investigate the contrastive semantic meanings, pragmatic functions and conversational implicatures of these two markers in contrastive perspective. But such a...

In this paper we present the referential tagging of part of the EPEC Corpus of Basque (26,000 words). We extended our annotation from pronominal anaphora to include other types of referential structures, such as proper names, and nominal and adverbial anaphora. We describe the criteria defined for the annotation and the problematic cases we found in the tagging process. We particularly focus he...

This paper puts forward an analysis of scope interactions between Japanese adverbial quantifiers like mainichi 'everyday' and tokidoki 'sometimes' and a negative morpheme nai 'not' on the basis of Aocus)-structures. In this analysis, three f-structures are assigned to a sentence with an adverbial quantifier and a negative morpheme. One of them represents a negation-wide reading, and the other t...

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In this paper we compare three approaches to adverbial positioning using lexical, syntactic, semantic and sentence-level features. We find that: (a), oneand two-stage classificationbased approaches can achieve almost 86% accuracy in determining the absolute position of adverbials; (b) a classifier trained with only syntactic features gives performance close to that of a classifier trained with ...

This article tests Diessel’s ‘integration’ path of development of adverbial clauses (cf. Diessel, 2004), with special focus on the acquisition of ‘causal’ adverbial clauses, in the context of the overall development of grammatical/semantic complexification in a French child’s longitudinal corpus of spontaneous speech (Madeleine, Paris Corpus) from 10 months to 4;01 years old. Three main pattern...