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English Grammar: A University Course Open
This best-selling comprehensive descriptive grammar forms a complete course, ideal for all students studying English Language ,whether on a course or for self-study. Broadly based on Hallidayan systemic-functional grammar but also drawing …
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Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Parsing on Penn Treebank Open
Head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) enjoys a uniform formalism representing rich contextual syntactic and even semantic meanings. This paper makes the first attempt to formulate a simplified HPSG by integrating constituent and depe…
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Multiword Constructions in the Grammar Open
There is ample evidence that speakers’ linguistic knowledge extends well beyond what can be described in terms of rules of compositional interpretation stated over combinations of single words. We explore a range of multiword constructions…
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Deconstructing information structure Open
The paper argues that a core part of what is traditionally referred to as ‘information structure’ can be deconstructed into genuine morphosyntactic features that are visible to syntactic operations, contribute to discourse-related expressi…
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Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook Open
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a linguistic framework that models linguistic knowledge on all descriptive levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) by using feature value pairs, structure sharing, and re…
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Phrase-BERT: Improved Phrase Embeddings from BERT with an Application to Corpus Exploration Open
Phrase representations derived from BERT often do not exhibit complex phrasal compositionality, as the model relies instead on lexical similarity to determine semantic relatedness. In this paper, we propose a contrastive fine-tuning object…
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Dependency Grammar Open
Dependency grammar is a descriptive and theoretical tradition in linguistics that can be traced back to antiquity. It has long been influential in the European linguistics tradition and has more recently become a mainstream approach to rep…
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The Syntax of Jazz Harmony: Diatonic Tonality, Phrase Structure, and Form Open
The regularities underlying the structure building of chord sequences, harmonic phrases, and combinations of phrases constitute a central research problem in music theory. This article proposes a formalization of Jazz harmony with a genera…
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Lessons from the English auxiliary system Open
The English auxiliary system exhibits many lexical exceptions and subregularities, and considerable dialectal variation, all of which are frequently omitted from generative analyses and discussions. This paper presents a detailed, movement…
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Universal neural basis of structure building evidenced by network modulations emerging from Broca's area: The case of Chinese Open
The basic steps in building up language involve binding words of different categories into a hierarchical structure. To what extent these steps are universal or differ across languages is an open issue. Here we examine the neural dynamics …
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Assessing Relative Sentence Complexity using an Incremental CCG Parser Open
Given a pair of sentences, we present computational models to assess if one sentence is simpler to read than the other.While existing models explored the usage of phrase structure features using a non-incremental parser, experimental evide…
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Distinguishing Syntactic Operations in the Brain: Dependency and Phrase-Structure Parsing Open
Finding the structure of a sentence—the way its words hold together to convey meaning—is a fundamental step in language comprehension. Several brain regions, including the left inferior frontal gyrus, the left posterior superior temporal g…
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Word order in a free word order language: the case of Jiwarli Open
Recent syntactic debate has focused on nonconfigurationality or ‘free word order’, with Australian Aboriginal languages like Warlpiri and Kalkatungu cited as examples. Generative and functionalist linguists, including Jelinek, Speas, Baker…
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Unlike phrase structure category coordination Open
We present a feature-based theory of phrase structure category labelswhich assigns an appropriate category to unlike category coordinationssuch as (Fred is) [[a Democrat] and [proud of it]]: wepropose that unlike category coordinations are…
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Cross-lingual semantic parsing with categorial grammars Open
Humans communicate using natural language. We need to make sure that computers can understand us so that they can act on our spoken commands or independently gain new insights from knowledge that is written down as text. A “semantic parser…
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Aphoristic units recurrence in modern Russian language Open
Modern linguistics focuses on recurrence as a feature and category of various units of language and speech. In this regard, the contrastive analysis of recurrence and reproducibility on the material of set units is particularly relevant. T…
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Contact-Induced Changes in the Argument Structure of Middle English Verbs on the Model of Old French Open
This paper investigates contact-induced changes in the argument structure of Middle English verbs on the model of Old French. 1 We study two issues: i) to what extent did the English system retain and integrate the argument structure of ve…
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A Corpus Based Approach to the Analysis of Structures in Prepositional Phrase Open
The written text can not be separated from using prepositional phrase, because prepositional phrase makes a sentence complete grammatically. In this research, there was an aim that has to be achieved. Namely: to determine the structures of…
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A Critical Analysis of Biased Parsers in Unsupervised Parsing Open
A series of recent papers has used a parsing algorithm due to Shen et al. (2018) to recover phrase-structure trees based on proxies for "syntactic depth." These proxy depths are obtained from the representations learned by recurrent langua…
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Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Parsing on Penn Treebank Open
Head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) enjoys a uniform formalism representing rich contextual syntactic and even semantic meanings. This paper makes the first attempt to formulate a simplified HPSG by integrating constituent and depe…
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Flexibility of Expressive Timing in Repeated Musical Performances Open
Performances by soloists in the Western classical tradition are normally highly prepared, yet must sound fresh and spontaneous. How do musicians manage this? We tested the hypothesis that they achieve the necessary spontaneity by varying t…
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Semantic and Syntactic Processing During Comprehension: ERP Evidence From Chinese QING Structure Open
Previous studies used BA and BEI structures as stimuli to infer that syntax-first models seemed not applicable in Chinese. However, there were inconsistent results of both within same structures and between different structures. Since sent…
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Monolingual Phrase Alignment on Parse Forests Open
We propose an efficient method to conduct phrase alignment on parse forests for paraphrase detection. Unlike previous studies, our method identifies syntactic paraphrases under linguistically motivated grammar. In addition, it allows phras…
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Neurophysiological Correlates of Musical and Prosodic Phrasing: Shared Processing Mechanisms and Effects of Musical Expertise Open
The processing of prosodic phrase boundaries in language is immediately\nreflected by a specific event-related potential component called the Closure\nPositive Shift (CPS). A component somewhat reminiscent of the CPS in language\nhas also …
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Figurativeness Matters in the Second Language Processing of Collocations: Evidence From a Self‐Paced Reading Experiment Open
This study reports on a self‐paced reading experiment exploring whether the figurativeness of collocations affects L2 processing of collocations. The participants were 40 English native speakers and 44 Chinese‐speaking English foreign lang…
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Derivational Grammar Model and Basket Verb: A Novel Approach to the Inflectional Phrase in the Generative Grammar and Cognitive Processing Open
Generative grammar was a true revolution in the linguistics. However, to describe language behavior in its semantic essence and universal aspects, generative grammar needs to have a much richer semantic basis. In this paper, we took a nove…
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Chunks are components: A dependency grammar approach to the syntactic structure of Mandarin Open
Speakers and listeners produce and process language in chunks. These chunks are not arbitrary combinations of words, but rather they are motivated in part by the syntactic structure of the sentences at hand. This article employs chunking d…
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A memory-based explanation of antecedent-ellipsis mismatches: New insights from computational modeling Open
An active question in psycholinguistics is whether or not the parser and grammar reflect distinct cognitive systems. Recent evidence for a distinct-systems view comes from cases of ungrammatical but acceptable antecedent-ellipsis mismatche…
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From LFG structures to dependency relations Open
In this article, I describe the derivation of dependency structures from LFG analyses, with a focus on the Norwegian grammar NorGram. Although it is the f-structures that at a first glance resemble dependency structures most, I show that c…
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An Adaptive Hierarchical Compositional Model for Phrase Embedding Open
Phrase embedding aims at representing phrases in a vector space and it is important for the performance of many NLP tasks. Existing models only regard a phrase as either full-compositional or non-compositional, while ignoring the hybrid-co…