Abstract The paper deals with an ongoing change in the clitic paradigm of contemporary Italian, namely incipient overextension functions ne . In standard variety can only stand for prepositional phrases consisting di + [noun phrase] and da phrase], such as those found genitival, partitive, locative constructions or passive ‘by’-phrases. on other hand, is increasingly appearing a substitute when...

Prepositional Phrase-attachment is a common source of ambiguity in natural language. The previous approaches use limited information to solve the ambiguity – four lexical heads – although humans disambiguate much better when the full sentence is available. We propose to solve the PP-attachment ambiguity with a Support Vector Machines learning model that uses complex syntactic and semantic featu...

This paper describes a labelled corpus intended for training learning algorithms to attach prepositional phrases (PPs). Taken from the PTB2, we believe it is the largest available resource for this purpose, especially as it contains many patterns in which PPs occur ambiguously (nearly all previous research has focused on just one pattern) and we present some results for the five most common pat...

This paper provides a construction grammar perspective to identifying the ambiguity of prepositional phrase (PP) attachments (i.e., whether a PP is attached to the closest VP or NP1). Despite the wide discussion of these two structures (VP-attached and NP1-attached), we raise the possibility for a third parsing structure (about 11.3% from all 1845 instances analyzed), a co-attachment to both ve...

this article addresses the phonetic and phonological representation of h- phrase accent in the tonal structure of persian pre-nuclear accents. in an experimental study, three groups of pre-nuclear accentual phrases, namely, phrases with antepenultimate, penultimate and final stress pattern, were selected for tonal examination. materials were designed so as to yield under-pressure and pressure f...

In English-to-Chinese machine translation, reordering mistakes are frequently caused by miss-located prepositional phrases(PP). In English, a PP is often located after its attached host, while in Chinese things are the opposite. Recent phrase-based MT approaches tend to ignore such syntax information. In our work, we propose two strategies to resolve the above problem: first, for MT that adopts...