ing away from terminology, these quotes straightforwardly paraphrase a syntactic passive relation between a direct object and a subject. The import of their findings is thus: the semantic role of the subject of a passive adjective is always that of the corresponding verb's deep direct object. This is exactly the conclusion that the passive sub-case of Move NP derives passive adjectives. 7.2. A ...

Building upon the existing literature, we are suggesting to regard the building blocks of all graphics as falling into three main categories: a) the graphic objects that are shown (e.g., a dot, a pictogram, an arrow), b) the meaningful graphic spaces into which these objects are arranged (e.g., a geographic coordinate system, a timeline), and c) the graphic properties of these objects (e.g., th...

Bracketed corpora are a very useful resource for natural language processing, but hard to build efficiently, leading to quantitative insufficiency for practical use. Disparities in morphological information, such as word segmentation and part-of-speech tag sets, are also troublesome. An application specific to a particular corpus often cannot be applied to another corpus. In this paper, we sket...