Conjunctive and prepositional comparatives in Slovenian

Parsing and Interpreting Comparatives

1. INTRODUCTION We describe a fairly comprehensive handling of the syntax and semantics of comparative constructions. The analysis is largely based on the theory developed by Pinkham, but we advance arguments to support a different handling of phrasal comparatives-in particular, we use direct interpretation instead of C-ellipsis. We .explain the reasons for dividing comparative sentences into d...

Comparatives and quantifiers

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Quantifiers in Comparatives

Comparatives And Ellipsis

This paper analyses the syntax and semantics of English comparatives, and some types of ellipsis. It improves on other recent analyses in the computational linguistics literature in three respects: (i) it uses no treeor logical-form rewriting devices in building meaning representations (ii) this results in a fully reversible linguistic description, equally suited for analysis or generation (iii...

Comparatives in Context

We propose a model of semantic interpretation of comparatives which is based on a mechanism for semantic copying. Besides common phrasal and clausal forms of comparatives, our model also incorporates the analysis of referential and textual phenomena that interact with the interpretation of comparatives, viz. metonymies and omitted complements. In order to allow for efficient processing, guidanc...