Three neuropsychological experiments on a group of 16 cerebellar patients and 16 age- and education-matched controls investigated the effects of damage to the cerebellum on English grammatical morphology across production, comprehension, and grammaticality judgment tasks. In Experiment 1, participants described a series of pictures previously used in studies of cortical aphasic patients. The ce...

This paper presents a corpus-based method to assign grammatical subject/object relations to ambiguous German constructs. It makes use of an unsupervised learning procedure to collect training and test data, and the back-off model to make assignment decisions.

This paper presents a corpus-based method to assign grammatical subject/object relations to ambiguous German constructs. It makes use of an unsupervised learning procedure to collect training and test data, and the back-off model to make assignment decisions.

Bishop (2000) has recently raised the question of discriminating between grammatical SLI, pragmatic impairment, and social cognition problems linked to a spectrum of autistic behaviour. In this paper we report pilot findings which indicate that grammatical SLI may be associated with a lexical deficit in verbs that involve interpersonal action, and in particular verbs whose meanings involve ment...

These notes are intended as a “rough and ready” guide to grammars and parsing. The theoretical foundations required for a thorough treatment of the subject are developed in the Formal Languages, Automata, and Computability course. The construction of parsers for programming languages using more advanced techniques than are discussed here is considered in detail in the Compiler Construction cour...

The aim of the present paper is to investigate the aspectual properties of middle constructions in English. English middle constructions are non-eventive sentences deno ting a property of the grammatical subject. Middle formation seems to have certain similarities with passivization as both processes involve demotion or deletion of the external argument and promotion of the internal argument to...

For languages with (semi-) free word order (such as German), labelling grammatical functions on top of phrase-structural constituent analyses is crucial for making them interpretable. Unfortunately, most statistical classifiers consider only local information for function labelling and fail to capture important restrictions on the distribution of core argument functions such as subject, object ...

This paper surveys the principal Generative syntactic analyses which have been proposed for ergativity, found primarily in Inuit, Austronesian, Mayan, and Pama-Nyungan language families. The main puzzle for Generative Grammar is how to analyze the behavior of ergative and absolutive arguments in terms of the grammatical functions of subject and object. I show in this paper that early approaches...

Yoon (2008, 2009) claimed that there are two distinct Subjects in Multiple Subject Constructions (MSCs) in Korean. The crux of his argument hangs on reinterpreting the traditionally proposed subject diagnostics as distinguishing between the Grammatical Subject (GS) and the Major Subject (MS) in MSCs. The claimed diagnostics for GS and MS were examined experimentally in MSCs and corresponding Si...

a. The Hierarchy of Grammatical Relations: 1 (Subject) >> 2 (Direct Object) >> 3 (Indirect Object) >> Nonterms (Oblique, Chômeur) b. Any stratum (= level of grammatical representation) contains at most one instance of each GR (Stratal Uniqueness Law). c. Nominals can travel up the hierarchy (advancement) or down (demotion). d. If X bears a specific GR and Y is advanced to this GR, X is put en c...