It has become common to analyse comparatives by using degrees, so that John is happier than Mary would in fact involve a comparison between the degree(s) to which John is happy and the degree(s) to which Mary is happy. I will argue that such analyses face serious conceptual and empirical problems. I will pursue an alternative analysis on which comparatives involve a comparison between particula...

This paper describes how NOMLEX, a dictionary of nominalizations, can be used in Information Extraction (IE). This paper details a procedure which maps syntactic and semantic information designed for writing an IE pattern for an active clause (IBM appointed Alice Smith as vice president) into a set of patterns for nominaliza-tions (e.g., IBM's appointment of Alice Smith as vice president and Al...

Iarg-AnCora aims to annotate the implicit arguments of deverbal nominalizations in AnCora corpus. This corpus will be the basis for systems of automatic semantic role labeling based on machine learning techniques. Semantic analyzers are essential components in the current applications of language technologies, in which it is important to obtain a deeper understanding of the text to make inferen...

Verbs or adjectives and their nominalizations and certain adverb adjective pairs can be argued to introduce the same concept. This can be shown through inference patterns, which can be explained if we assume Davidsonian eventualities underlying all predicates. We make a contribution to the underlying state discussion by investigating the advantages and disadvantages of Davidsonian versus Kimian...

I will argue that certain complements in philosophically significant constructions, especially predicative and clausal complements and intensional NPs, should not be analysed as providing an argument for a relation expressed by the verb, but rather as forming a complex predicate together with the verb. Apparent evidence for the traditional relational analyses, namely the possibility of replacin...

Marcus Berger, University of Michigan 0. While much recent work has focused on various nominal and verbal properties of syntactic nominalizations, relatively little work has investigated how their internal structure is derived. Many authors adopt a ‘mixed projection’ hierarchy in which verbal projections appear interpolated into an otherwise nominal hierarchy. The resulting combination of proje...

A systematic approach for automatically generating derivational variants based on the SPECIALIST Lexicon was proposed and implemented in Lexical Tools [1]. This approach addressed the prefix (PD), zero (ZD), and suffix (SD) derivations from nominalizations (nomD). This paper describes the generation of SD (not from nomD) based on the Lexicon in the Lexical Tools, including both SD-Facts and SD-...

This paper will provide an account for the existence of pairs of deverbal nominals with –age and –ée giving rise to event readings. We first study the argument structure of the bases and of the derived nominals, and establish the general tendencies. We further examine the Aktionsart of the nominalizations and of the verbal bases. We conclude that these levels of investigation are not sufficient...

This paper reports results from masked priming experiments investigating regular past-tense forms and deadjectival nominalizations with -ness and -ity in adult native (L1) speakers of English and in different groups of advanced adult second language (L2) learners of English. While the L1 group showed efficient priming for both inflected and derived word forms, the L2 learners demonstrated repet...