Impersonal Constructions in Igbo

Impersonal Constructions in Balochi

Impersonal constructions are interesting from a typological perspective. Siewierska (2008: 3–4) finds that “[t]he semantic characterizations of impersonality centre on two notions”, either “the lack of a human agent controlling the depicted situation or event” or “situations or events which may be brought about by a human agent but crucially one which is not specified.” The present article focu...

a cross-linguistic analysis of impersonal constructions

extended abstract 1. introduction the diversity of impersonal constructions and the different approaches used in studying them have caused different and sometimes contradictory positions about their classification and the explanation of grammatical and semantic roles of their components. this article reveals the necessity of studying them with a new approach which pursues a common basis coverin...

A First Approach to the Automatic Detection of Zero Subjects and Impersonal Constructions in Portuguese

In this paper we present a first approximation to the automatic detection of zero subjects and impersonal constructions in Brazilian Portuguese. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt of approaching such task using machine learning in Portuguese. We compiled a corpus containing more than 5,600 instances annotated with the classes to be identified: explicit subjects, zero subjec...

Clausal architecture and subject positions: impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages

Elliphant: Improved Automatic Detection of Zero Subjects and Impersonal Constructions in Spanish

In pro-drop languages, the detection of explicit subjects, zero subjects and nonreferential impersonal constructions is crucial for anaphora and co-reference resolution. While the identification of explicit and zero subjects has attracted the attention of researchers in the past, the automatic identification of impersonal constructions in Spanish has not been addressed yet and this work is the ...