This book is about those Germanic verbal constructions variously referred ...

We investigate the extraction of ontologies from biological text using a semantic representation derived from a robust parser. The use of a semantic representation avoids the problems that traditional pattern-based approaches have with complex syntactic constructions and long-distance dependencies. The discovery of taxonomic relationships is explored in a corpus consisting of 12,200 animal-rela...

Internal syntactic operations on diagrams play a key role in accounting for efficacy of diagram use in reasoning. However, it is often held that in the case of complex deductive reasoning, diagrams can serve merely as an auxiliary source of information in interpreting sentences or constructing models. Based on experiments comparing subjects’ performances in syllogism solving where logic diagram...

In the paper, we describe methods for exploitation of a new lexical database of valency frames (VerbaLex) in relation to Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL). We present a detailed description of the Complex Valency Frames (CVF) as they appear in VerbaLex including basic ontology of the VerbaLex semantic roles. TIL is a typed logical system developed for natural language semantic representation ...

The syntax of these constructions has received a lot of attention in recent years (den Dikken 1995, 1998, Español-Echevarría 1996, Hulk & Tellier 1999ab, Doetjes 1997). However, very little work has concentrated on the relation between both constructions. Milner (1978) had already observed that quantitative and qualitative constructions share the same syntactic structure (see also Ruwet 1982). ...

This paper deals with three copular constructions in French that take bare nominals as a predicative complement (attribut du sujet). From a lexical point of view, these constructions, which are typical of colloquial French, are very open frames. After a detailed analysis of the syntactic and semantic properties of these constructions, I will examine them in the light of a more theoretical quest...

In this paper we analyse the interdependence of Persian nonverbal (NV) element and the light verb (LV) in determining the syntactic properties, the event structure, and the alternation possibilities of the entire complex predicate (CP) and we argue that these properties provide strong evidence against a Lexicalist approach to such phenomena. Further we show how these facts may be naturally acco...

The syntactic structure of a sentence is usually a strong predictor of its meaning: Each argument noun phrase (i.e., Subject and Object) should map onto exactly one thematic role (i.e., Agent and Patient, respectively). Some constructions, however, are exceptions to this pattern. This paper investigates how the syntactic structure of an utterance contributes to its construal, using ditransitive...

Abstract As a contribution to the study of complex structures in native Amazonian languages, this article examines syntax additives and conjunctions language Gavião Rondônia. In particle k ĩ ´í ‘also, too, and’ is used form additive (‘also’) constructions with noun phrases verb phrases, without creating conjoined syntactic constituents. The same also constituents, which two or more are conjoine...