This article concerns the general functional features of an adjective in modern English, and in particular multistate lexical item “just”, which carries different meanings in different variants of combinatorics. The authors analyze the combinations used with the adjectival lexeme item “just” and reveal the categories that determine the degree of semantic content of each given statement. The nee...

Numerous studies have been carried out to find the relation between neighborhood effect and retention of lexical items. This study was an attempt to find such a relationship among Iranian EFL learners. Participants, advanced second English learners, were chosen based on the Oxford Placement Test. Participants completed a lexical decision task that was designed and performed by a computer softwa...

This paper reports on an investigation of lexical selfrepair in Dutch spontaneous dialogue. Lexical selfrepairs, in which one word is rejected for another, can be produced with or without notable ̳prosodic marking‘ of the second word. It remains unclear what motivates speakers‘ choices, but previous research has shown that the semantic distance between the two words is relevant. This study asse...

A bstract We define the utility of the specified up state of the system, 2: Xi, consisting of n independent multistate items. A measure of importance of an item and that of a given state of an item are discussed with respect to the expected utility function. It is shown that., for non-decreasing utility functions, the perfect state of an item yields maximum contribution to the expected utility ...

The present paper notes that the lexical item PO, literally meaning ‘to break’, bears multiple semantic imports in Mandarin Chinese. Given the lack of well-documented research on the semantics of the lexical item, this paper aims to explore the various meanings of PO. By examining the collocations of PO, thirteen meanings are identified, with predicative and attributive senses. It is proposed t...

In this paper, we have proposed novel methods for robust parsing that integrate the exibility of linguistically motivated lexical descriptions with the robustness of statistical techniques. Our thesis is that the computation of linguistic structure can be localized if lexical items are associated with rich descriptions (Supertags) that impose complex constraints in a local context. The supertag...

In this paper, we have proposed novel methods for robust parsing that integrate the exibility of linguistically motivated lexical descriptions with the robustness of statistical techniques. Our thesis is that the computation of linguistic structure can be localized if lexical items are associated with rich descriptions (Supertags) that impose complex constraints in a local context. The supertag...