Although they have a long Western history, philosophical and otherwise, binary oppositions are not by any means endemic to the Western world. They are pan-cullural phenomena. The purpose of this paper, however, is to examine a fundamental binary opposition that, in its mode of expression in Western culture, is endemic: the human/nonhuman opposition. Its indigenous signature is readily apparent ...

The central question of this study is whether aspectual verb classes (Vendler, 1967) can be induced from corpus data in a fully automatic, distributionally motivated procedure. We propose an operationalization of ‘aspectivity’ utilizing distributional information about nominal fillers in the argument positions of verbs in combination with aspectual features automatically derived from dependency...

In this position paper, we report on an initial experiment using the technique of formal concept analysis for reverse engineering aspectual views from object-oriented source code. An aspectual view is a set of source code entities, such as class hierarchies, classes and methods, that are structurally related in some way, and often crosscut a particular application. Initially, we follow a lightw...

In modern linguistics binary distinctions are fundamental and many social and cultural phenomena are based on binary oppositions. Even many stereotypes of culture get formulated on the basis of binary oppositions: “If you are not with me you are against me” (Hawthorn 29) is a cultural imposition of a binary opposition upon variations of attitude. Looking down upon the natives of the Subcontinen...

Aspectual classification maps verbs to a small set of primitive categories in order to reason about time. This classification is necessary for interpreting temporal modifiers and assessing temporal relationships, and is therefore a required component for many natural language applications. A verb's aspectual category can be predicted by co-occurrence frequencies between the verb and certain lin...

This article discusses the nature of Estonian aspect and case, proposing an analysis of Estonian verbal aspect, aspectual case, and clausal aspect. The focus is on the interaction of transitive telic verbs (write, win) and aspectual case at the level of the functional structure. The main discussion concerns the relationships between aspect and the object case alternation. The data set comprises...

The Multiple Oppositions Approach is described as an alternative model for the treatment of children with the severe phonological disorders. The aim of this study was to analyze the therapeutic progress of five children with phonological disorder, submitted to the Multiple Oppositions Approach, regarding the phonetic (sounds) and phonological (phonemes and altered distinctive features) inventor...

This study investigated whether or not the temporal information encoded in aspectual morphemes can be used immediately by young children to facilitate event recognition during online sentence comprehension. We focused on the contrast between two grammatical aspectual morphemes in Mandarin Chinese, the perfective morpheme -le and the (imperfective) durative morpheme -zhe. The perfective morpheme...

We use Gregor Kiczales' de nition of an aspect: a modular unit of crosscutting implementation and present a useful kind of aspect-oriented programming in Java. By focussing on a limited, but commonly occuring set of aspects, we are able to provide the Java library DJ that allows us to write aspectual methods whose ad-hoc implementation cuts across several classes. An aspectual method is evaluat...

Coercion verbs have been taken to include not only aspectual verbs like begin, start, and finish but also psychological verbs such as enjoy, endure, and savor and control verbs like try and attempt. Their unifying property has been assumed to be that they select for eventive complements (e.g. John began/enjoyed reading the book/the meeting). On this view, the composition of an entity-denoting e...