This paper looks at integrating dependency and constituency into a common framework, using the TAG formalism and a diierent perspective on the meta-grammar of (Dras, 1999) in which the grammar is viewed as a single yield function. This framework gives consistent dependency analyses of raising verbs interacting with bridge verbs, solving a problem in Synchronous TAG; and in a completely diierent...

This paper looks at integrating dependency and constituency into a common framework, using the TAG formalism and a different perspective on the metagrammar of (Dras, 1999) in which the meta level models dependencies and the object level model constituency. This framework gives consistent dependency analyses of raising verbs interacting with bridge verbs, solving a problem in Synchronous TAG. An...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss treatment of 'focus particles' in Japanese sentences to be incorporated in a Japanese parsing system based on the Lexical-Functional Grammar(LFG) formalism. Focus particle can follow nouns, quantifiers, verbs, other particles (postpositions) and auxiliary verbs. Thus, it is necessary for a large-scale grammar to treat focus particles properly. Furthermore...

We propose a model for knowledge attribution and epistemic evaluation in scientific discourse, consisting of three dimensions with different values: source (author, other, unknown); value (unknown, possible, probable, presumed true) and basis (reasoning, data, other). Based on a literature review, we investigate four linguistic features that mark different types epistemic evaluation (modal auxi...

This paper looks at integrating dependency and constituency into a common framework, using the TAG formalism and a di erent perspective on the meta-level grammar of Dras (1999a) in which the meta level models dependencies and the object level models constituency. This framework gives consistent dependency analyses of raising verbs interacting with bridge verbs, additionally giving a solution to...

This paper describes auxiliary verb constructions in European Portuguese in view of their correct parsing in a fully integrated NLP chain. The paper provides data on these constructions over a large-sized corpus and evaluates the parsing system performance.

nouns collocations, 25abstraction, 19affectedness of the patient, 46affirmation, 46affirmative, 37aktionsart, 27annotation tool, 92anthropocentricity, 19apposition, 58argument shifting, 64argument structure, 90arguments, 90aspect, 16, 27, 46, 93atelic event, 37auxiliary verbs, 18

The purpose of this paper is to account in a generalized way for two facts about negation in Chinese. One is that the Chinese negative marker bu cannot co-occur with the perfective aspect marker le; the other is that the Chinese negative marker bu is incompatible with the manner phrase in the V-de construction. We claim that the functional category NegP postulated by Pollock (1989) can be exten...

The main purpose of this paper is to provide experimental evidence that two syntactic reflexes of split intransitivity in German the selection of perfective auxiliaries and the impersonal passive construction are sensitive to an aspectual/thematic hierarchy of verb classes. We show that there is a split between ‘core’ verbs that elicit categorical intuitions from native speakers, and ‘intermedi...