Boundedness of verbal and adjectival predicates in Mandarin

Semantic Polarity of Adjectival Predicates in Online Reviews

Web users produce more and more documents expressing opinions. Because these have become important resources for customers and manufacturers, many have focused on them. Opinions are often expressed through adjectives with positive or negative semantic values. In extracting information from users’ opinion in online reviews, exact recognition of the semantic polarity of adjectives is one of the m...

Non-Verbal Predicates in Tongan

In any head-driven theory of clause structure, where clauses are some sort of verbal category, the presence of clauses without an overt verb poses an interesting puzzle. Should or can the non-verbal clauses be assimilated to verbal clauses via a phonologically-null verb, or should they be analyzed in another way? This issue has been the subject of a fair amount of research in HPSG over the last...

The Verbal Nature of Mandarin Comparative bi

In many languages, the identification of parts of speech is often a fundamental piece of both our theoretical and practical lexical knowledge. Yet in the study of Mandarin Chinese, the inventory of and relationships between basic grammatical categories are often controversial. Entire categories such as “adjective” and “preposition” have been questioned as possibly being classes of verbs (McCawl...

Adjectival Passives and Adjectival Decausatives in Hebrew

A System for Large-Scale Acquisition of Verbal, Nominal and Adjectival Subcategorization Frames from Corpora

This paper describes the first system for large-scale acquisition of subcategorization frames (SCFs) from English corpus data which can be used to acquire comprehensive lexicons for verbs, nouns and adjectives. The system incorporates an extensive rulebased classifier which identifies 168 verbal, 37 adjectival and 31 nominal frames from grammatical relations (GRs) output by a robust parser. The...