Across most languages, verbs produced by agrammatic aphasic individuals are frequently marked by syntactically and semantically inappropriate inflectional affixes, such as Last night, I walking home. As per language production models, verb inflection errors in English agrammatism could arise from three potential sources: encoding the verbs' morphology based on temporal information at the concep...

The presented article deals with the translation of verbs perception from French into Slovak in novel Passing Timeby M. Butor. focus, particular, is on numerous prefix equivalents these non-prefixed verbs. main goal analysis their meanings. We will observe how prefix, addition to changing imperfect form perfect one, modifies meaning basic verb and thus fulfils its lexical-perfective function. a...

meaning. As Lehmann (1995[1982]:129) puts it, “[g]rammaticalization rips off the lexical features until only the grammatical features are left”. The original meaning of a grammaticalizing item plays an important role in its further development (Hopper & Traugott 1993:3). That is, the etymology of a grammaticalizing item constrains its subsequent grammatical functions. This property is called pe...

We implement and evaluate systems for automatically distinguishing habitual and episodic sentences. Using features such as tense, aspect, noun phrase characteristics, temporal modifiers, specific adverb modifiers, and specific verb auxiliaries on genericity we built and evaluated a supervised machine learning classifier that provides 86.3% precision in disambiguating habitual and episodic sente...

Verbs are one of the basic building blocks of grammar, yet few studies have examined the grammatical, morphological, and phonological factors contributing to lexical access and production of Spanish verb inflection. This report describes an online data set that incorporates psycholinguistic dimensions for 50 of the most common early-acquired Spanish verbs. Using this data set, predictors of res...

Although English verbs can be either regular (walk-walked) or irregular (sing-sang), "denominal verbs" that are derived from nouns, such as the use of the verb ring derived from the noun a ring, take the regular form even if they are homophonous with an existing irregular verb: The soldiers ringed the city rather than *The soldiers rang the city. Is this regularization due to a semantic differe...

We present an approach for learning context-dependent semantic parsers to identify and interpret time expressions. We use a Combinatory Categorial Grammar to construct compositional meaning representations, while considering contextual cues, such as the document creation time and the tense of the governing verb, to compute the final time values. Experiments on benchmark datasets show that our a...

This paper presents the grammatical category of mood in Tinkar lo, a lesser known West Himalayish Tibeto-Burman language spoken last village Byans valley Province no.7, Sudurpashchim Pradesh Nepal. lo is an SOV and verb stems are inflected for tense, aspect, agreement. Both modality manifest but this only types attested language. The findings discussed pertain to analysis my Ph.D. research. Key...