This contribution presents a dependency grammar (DG) account of control and raising in English. Due to the minimalism of DG analyses of sentence structure, the difference between control and raising cannot be captured in the syntactic structure alone. The situation forces the DG account to reach to some other aspect of dependency syntax other than the raw hierarchies of structure to account for...

This document describes a sizable grammar of English written in the TAG formalism and implemented for use with the XTAG system. This report and the grammar described herein supersedes the TAG grammar described in an earlier 1995 XTAG technical report. The English grammar described in this report is based on the TAG formalism which has been extended to include lexicalization, and unification-bas...

This study was inspired by VanPatten and Uludag’s (2011) study on the transferability of training via processing instruction to output tasks and Mori’s (2002) work on the development of talk-in-interaction during a group task. An interview was devised as the pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest to compare four intervention types for teaching the simple past passive: traditional intervention ...

A B S T R A C T Steedman (1985, 1987) and others have proposed that Categorial Grammar, a theory of syntax in which grammatical categories are viewed as functions, be augmented with operators such as functional composition and type raising in order to analyze • noncanonical" syntactic constructions such as whextraction and node raising. A consequence of these augmentations is an explosion of se...

Within the tradition of Categorial Grammar, so-called ‘non-constituent’ coordination (‘argument cluster’ coordination and ‘right node raising’) has been analyzed in terms of the coordination of nonstandard constituents produced by the operations of type raising and composition. This highly successful research has expanded the domain of data that modern analyses of coordination must take into ac...

For many NLP applications (e.g. generation, machine translation, etc.), large linguistic resources are needed. These resources include (but are not limited to) lexicons and grammars. The latter were originally written by hand. This task of grammar writing was requiring many human resources. Plus, the coherence between the grammatical structures was hard to guarantee (and maintain), as the numbe...