In this paper, we will present the work on building a shallow parser for recognizing composite verb forms in Serbian – the forms that consist of an auxiliary verb and a main verb. The parser is made in Unitex, a corpus processing software, in the form of local grammars that rely on using morphological dictionaries of Serbian. The model was tested on a small corpus of texts, both written in Serb...

1. INTRODUCTION. This paper discusses whether there are elements in colloquial Sinhala that can be appropriately labeled AUXILIARY verbs, and what evidence there is to motivate such a label. While auxiliaries are thought of as a nearly universal lexical category (Steele 1978), the term is not mentioned in standard works on Sinhala (Gair & Paolillo 1997, Gair 1998), which warrants a closer exami...

Auxiliary selection is paradoxical: categorical for some verb classes, indeterminate for others; inconsistent across languages; and misaligned with other diagnostics. After critiquing one solution to the paradox, the Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy (Sorace 2000), we propose an alternative: Parameterized Linking, which approaches the semantic underpinnings of the unaccusative/unergative distinctio...

In this paper I investigate the alternation between VO and OV word order in spoken North Sami, based on data from LIA Sápmi – Sámegiela hállangiellakorpus. My results show that general is most frequent order. However, also find many instances of SAuxOV my material, particularly sentences with periphrastic verb forms where main infinitive (that is, modal constructions) object a pronoun. addition...

This study emerged from students' questions “who learn Turkish as a foreign language”, “ziyaret et- /ziyaret yap- ; kahvaltı etmek / yapmak is it right? ”; ıf these are true, can I say “namaz yap-?” about using combined actions such as. In fact, observed that there debate among Turkish-speaking students and teachers on the use of "yap-" auxiliary verb. For this purpose, in study, firstly, how e...

A fter perusing the articles and guest editors’ introduction for this issue on extreme data, I googled “extreme,” and hundreds of links bubbled up—from computing, coupons, data, and fatigue, to science, scientists and science fun, to “extreme x” (don’t ask). I then concluded that “extreme” has become an unreliable buzzword, used somewhat indiscriminately for its shock value. That said, the fact...

Regarding passive in Persian, two view-points are accessible: some argue that Persian language lack voice and shodan (become) is always an inchoative or linking verb. This status implies the sentences dar baaz shod (the door opens) Ali koshte (Ali was killed) same syntactically they both contain The other perspective concerning maintains has roles: passivization linking. Since Kurdish different...

This paper proposes an analysis method for Japanese modality. In this purpose, meaning of Japanese modality is classified into four semantic categories and the role of it is formalized into five modality functions. Based on these formalizations, information and constraints to be applied to the modality analysis procedure are specified. Then by combining these investigations with case analysis, ...

We present the Omega ontology, a large terminological ontology obtained by reformulating WordNet and Mikrokosmos into a new feature-oriented upper model. We explain the organizing principles of the representation used for Omega and discuss the methodology used to merge the constituent conceptual hierarchies. We survey a range of auxiliary knowledge sources (including instances, verb frame annot...