Russian infinitival existential constructions have puzzled linguists for decades. An excellent critical evaluation of different approaches, as well as related references, can be found in (Apresjan and Iomdin 1989). It is not the goal of the present study, therefore, to review existing analyses. The focus will rather be on working out a plausible analysis of Russian infinitival existential const...

This article proposes a functorial framework for generalizing some constructions of transformational theory. We focus on Klumpenhouwer Networks for which we propose a categorical generalization via the concept of set-valued poly-K-nets (henceforth PK-nets). After explaining why K-nets are special cases of these category-based transformational networks, we provide several examples of the musical...

We investigate powerspace constructions on topological spaces, with a particular focus on the category of quasi-Polish spaces. We show that the upper and lower powerspaces commute on all quasi-Polish spaces, and show more generally that this commutativity is equivalent to the topological property of consonance. We then investigate powerspace constructions on the open set lattices of quasi-Polis...

There has been a good deal of work examining the relationship between Tree Adjoining Grammar and HPSG. As shown by [5], it is possible to “compile” many HPSG analyses into the TAG framework. In this work I focus on some restructuring constructions in Romance that have received an argument composition analysis in HPSG. A TAG analysis of these constructions must take a different approach and a co...

The present work aims at a formal description of the interface between prosody and pragmatics in the framework of Constraint-based Unified Grammar CUG. It focuses on two main aspects of this interface: (1) intonation patterns vs. speech acts and (2) stress vs. topicfocus articulation. First, four terminal contours are proposed: fall, mid, rise, and high rise. They are then mapped into the speec...

This paper describes a sentence generator that was built primarily to focus on syntactic form and syntactic relationships. Our main goal was to produce a tutorial system for the English language; the intended users of the system are people with language delaying handicaps such as deafness, and people learning English as a foreign language. For these populations, extensive exposure to standard E...

The increasing complexity of construction, along with its rapid development, as well as ambiguities and gaps in the legal terms governing constructions, lack of trust in the parties regarding obligations and regulations are the main reasons of disagreements in domestic projects. These disagreements are inevitable even in contracts which are set correctly. Disagreements are costly, time-consumin...

Two visual-world eye-tracking experiments investigated the role of prediction in the processing of repair disfluencies (e.g., "The chef reached for some salt uh I mean some ketchup . . ."). Experiment 1 showed that listeners were more likely to fixate a critical distractor item (e.g., pepper) during the processing of repair disfluencies compared with the processing of coordination structures (e...

In this paper, we discuss issues connected to the phenomenon of linguistic FOCUS or INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION in the sentence in the context of the multi-lingual machine translation project EUROTRA. We shall present some of the arguments why a consideration of FOCUS phenomena is important for the determination of linear order and for semantic interpretation. We shall proceed, in sections 2 and 3...

the present paper seeks to present a minimalist account for the derivational process of marked ergative constructions in hawrami in terms of phase theory (chomsky 2000, 2001, 2004; radford 2009; citko2014). this phase-based approach is compared to the former feature-based approach advocated by karimi doustan and naghshbandi (2011). it is argued that using phase theory and its related mechanisms...