Redundant marking of grammatical relations seems to be commonplace across languages, and has been shown benefit learning as well robust information transmission. At the same time, languages also exhibit trade-offs between strategies such case or word order, suggesting that redundancy may dis-preferred in line with a tendency towards communicative efficiency. In present paper, we assess redundan...

Using metaphor-annotated material that is sufficiently representative of the topical composition of a similar-length document in a large background corpus, we show that words expressing a discourse-wide topic of discussion are less likely to be metaphorical than other words in a document. Our results suggest that to harvest metaphors more effectively, one is advised to consider words that do no...

(3) a. Argument Selection Principle In predicates with grammatical subject and object, the argument for which the predicate entails the greatest number of Proto-Agent properties will be lexicalized as the subject of the predicate; the argument having the greatest number of ProtoPatient properties will be lexicalized as the direct object. b. Corollary 1 If two arguments of a relation have (appro...

There are either morphological cases or cases asigned by word order and prepositions which determine function and semantic role of the arguments. We propose to lead parser by prepositional case to analize semifree order languages. In Spanish, word order and agreement will identify subject and inanimate direct object whereas prepositions will do the rest. Prepositions express grammatical relatio...

This study investigates how the parser employs thematic and contextual information in resolving temporary ambiguities during sentence processing. We report results from a sentence-completion task and from a self-paced reading experiment with native speakers of Greek examining two constructions under different referential context conditions: relative clauses (RCs) preceded by complex noun phrase...

At present, linguists do not have sufficient tools to strictly determine whether specific prepositional units belong prepositions as a part of speech, so it seems relevant consider the functional-grammatical field prepositions, which includes both themselves and that can function prepositions. The aim this article is identify, classify describe systemic paradigmatic relations within study was c...

This paper examines the ideational dimension of Soyinka’s Idanre, in light two approaches. The first one is Hallidayan approach which takes substance from Halliday’s Theories on group and phrase clauses under classification process, participant circumstance. second method adopted by Indian linguist Syal, his book entitled Structure Stylein commonwealth Literature. issued to analyze function tex...

The thesis tries to adopt the method used by Leech and Short in their book Style in Fiction to make a relatively overall and objective analysis of the novel’s language from lexical and grammatical Category. As far as the lexical features are concerned, the author employs special lexical items and lexical clusters. The lexical deviation and word connotations are mainly used for characterization ...