Lexical aspect and number variation in French Complex Event Nominals

Control and Complex Event Nominals in Hungarian

Annotating Qualia Relations in Italian and French Complex Nominals

The goal of this paper is to provide an annotation scheme for compounds based on generative lexicon theory (GL, Pustejovsky, 1995; Bassac and Bouillon, 2001). This scheme has been tested on a set of compounds automatically extracted from the Europarl corpus (Koehn, 2005) both in Italian and French. The motivation is twofold. On the one hand, it should help refine existing compound classificatio...

Bare plural nominals in Romanian and French

In this paper we investigate Bare Plurals (BPs; NPPL) in English and Romanian and Bare Plural Partitives (BParts; i.e. des NPPL) in French. Romanian BPs and French BParts only share with English BPs the existential interpretation with obligatory narrow scope. We propose that this reading shared by all three comes from the same pieces: a non-kind-selecting predicate, a kind-denoting argument, an...

Manipulation in advertising text: lexical and semantic aspect

The present paper focuses on the questions of modern advertising science, structure of advertising and elements making actual manipulative influence from the addresser. Advertising encourages product sales, is an instrument of forming ethical standards, values, creating cultural values, standards and mode of behavior that is why the wide system of means for achieving aims of advertisers is need...

Event Related Nominals

into two categories, depending on whether they retain the event from their verbal base or not. The original observation is due to Chomsky (1970); see also Lees (1960), Marantz (1997), Borer (2003). For English -ation and -ing nominals (e.g., destruction, examination; forming, examining) and for zero-derived nominals (e.g., form, exam), this has led to distinguishing two classes of nominals: com...