tsimpli and dimitrakopoulou (2007) observed that uninterpretable features are unavailable in second language (l2) acquisition after the critical period. in this paper, we verify this claim by providing evidence from persian speaking learners of english as an l2 on the status of resumptive pronouns (rps) as uniterpretable features. unlike english which does not allow rps, persian shows various b...

This article describes how semantic role resources can be exploited for preposition disambiguation. The main resources include the semantic role annotations provided by the Penn Treebank and FrameNet tagged corpora. The resources also include the assertions contained in the Factotum knowledge base, as well as information from Cyc and Conceptual Graphs. A common inventory is derived from these i...

The paper discusses the syntax and semantics of the Norwegian preposition med, which denotes a variety of concomitance relations. The c-structural, f-structural and semantic properties of the preposition are examined. Special emphasis is put on the constructions which involve syntax-semantics mismatches, such as bare noun phrases denoting sets of states instead of sets of individuals and it is ...

In this paper, we show how a constraint-based approach influences the modelling of preposition lexicalization in natural language generation. We concentrate on the linguistic description, which is the most challenging. The CSP procedures themselves are then rather straightforward. Preposition choice depends on the verb and its requirements, on the one hand, and the characteristics of the NP the...

Prepositions are highly polysemous, and their variegated senses encode significant semantic information. In this paper we match each preposition’s complement and attachment and their interplay crucially to the geometry of the word vectors to the left and right of the preposition. Extracting such features from the vast number of instances of each preposition and clustering them makes for an effi...