This thesis surveys the interaction between non-verbal predication in matrix clauses and processes of head-movement. Focusing mainly on the syntax of Modern Irish nominal predicates, it is claimed that matrix non-verbal predication can occur without any verbal support. When this happens, non-verbal predicates bear inflectional features directly and behave just like verbs with respect to process...

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This paper explores Chinese semantic role labeling (SRL) for nominal predicates. Besides those widely used features in verbal SRL, various nominal SRL-specific features are first included. Then, we improve the performance of nominal SRL by integrating useful features derived from a state-of-the-art verbal SRL system. Finally, we address the issue of automatic predicate recognition, which is ess...

In this short squib, I look at the phenomenon of "mixed category" verbal nouns in Irish. I argue that the verbal character of these elements follows primarily from their internal semantics as predicates. Unlike previous accounts I argue that nominal characteristics of these categories follows from two sources. In one group, they are nominal because, following Borsley and Kornfilt (2000), they h...

Verb Phrase (VP) Ellipsis and Pseudogapping have at times been treated as variants of the same process (Kuno 1981, Jayaseelan 1990, 2001, Lasnik 1995, 1999, Johnson 2001). In both cases something verbal is elided. In VP Ellipsis the verb and all of its arguments are elided, while in Pseudogapping, only the verb (and a subset of its arguments) is elided stranding one of its arguments; in both ca...

Electronic brainstorming (EBS) has been a focus of academic research since the 1980s. The results suggest that in most--but not all--cases, groups using EBS produce more ideas than groups using verbal brainstorming. In contrast, the results comparing groups using EBS to groups using nominal group brainstorming have been mixed: sometimes EBS groups produce more ideas, while in other cases, nomin...

Unlike English, Chinese sentences do not have a strict syntactic structure and ellipsis is a common phenomenon, which weaken the effectiveness of syntactic structure in argument extraction. In Chinese event extraction, lots of arguments cannot be extracted from the sentence successfully, because of the loose connection between the nominal trigger and its arguments. This paper brings forward a n...