This article discusses a number of complex appositive constructions, and compares them to regular nonrestrictive relative clauses and appositions in some Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages. Special attention is paid to the existence of so-called additional head NPs, and additional pronouns and determiners in appositive constructions. It is argued that almost all of the constructions under d...

We present a novel method for detecting the compositionality of English verbparticle constructions (VPCs), based on the assumption that compositionality can be modelled with semantic similarity between VPCs and their base verb in isolation. We also evaluate the contribution of components in compositional VPCs using semantic overlap.

In this paper, a number of different versions of the basic calculus of constructions that have appeared in the literature are compared and the exact relationships between them are determined. The biggest differences between versions are those between the original version of Coquand and the version in early papers on the subject by Seldin. None of these results is very deep, but it seems useful ...

In this paper we argue that the Japanese causative constructions should be viewed as a complex predicate having two possible c-structure realizations (i.e. a single monoclausal f-structure, and monoclausal and biclausal c-structures). Along with the Optimality Theory architecture, we suggest that the emergence of two c-structures in predicate composition is a consequence of the interactions tha...

If a locale is presented by a “flat site”, it is shown how its frame can be presented by generators and relations as a dcpo. A necessary and sufficient condition is derived for compactness of the locale (and also for its openness). Although its derivation uses impredicative constructions, it is also shown predicatively using the inductive generation of formal topologies. A predicative proof of ...

the concepts of structural optimization was introduced about sixty years ago. smiths from the university of los angeles (california) for the first time has offered the combination of finite element method and optimization techniques to design optimum structures (1960). at present time, this techniques are generally understood and many softwares for this perpose have been developed. in this pape...

In this paper, we focus on the verb-particle (V-Prt) split construction in English and German and its difficulty for parsing and Machine Translation (MT). For German, we use an existing test suite of V-Prt split constructions, while for English, we build a new and comparable test suite from raw data. These two data sets are then used to perform an analysis of errors in dependency parsing, word-...

In a line of recent development, probabilistic constructions of universal, homogeneous objects have been provided in various categories of ordered structures, such as causal sets, bifinite domains, and countable partial orders. These constructions have been shown to produce objects with the desired properties with probability 1 in an appropriately defined measure space. A common strategy for th...