MANDARIN EXISTENTIAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND THE PREDICATE RESTRICTION

Unifying predicate cleft constructions

The following properties characterize the contrastive verb focus construction in Vata. Morphology: the clause contains two copies of the verb. The verb in initial position carries special morphology associated with the construction (realized in Vata as a ‘construction’ tone). The verb in the clause looks and acts like any regular V. Order: The contrastively focused verb occurs in clause initial...

An Inquiry into Existential Constructions

Existential constructions play an important role in the development of Generative Grammar. Their special natures urge linguists to pay painstaking effort to give them a unified account. At first we have a brief review of the relevant study of these constructions and examine their strong points and weakness. On the basis of their study, we assume that in existential constructions of SVO language...

Constructions of Fully Secure Predicate Encryption Schemes

Estonian Copular and Existential Constructions as an UD Annotation Problem

This article is about annotating clauses with nonverbal predication in version 2 of Estonian UD treebank. Three possible annotation schemas are discussed, among which separating existential clauses from copular clauses would be theoretically most sound but would need too much manual labor and could possibly yield inconcistent annotation. Therefore, a solution has been adapted which separates ex...

Generic Transformations of Predicate Encodings: Constructions and Applications

Predicate encodings are information-theoretic primitives that can be transformed generically into predicate encryption schemes for a broad class of predicates (Wee, TCC 2014; Chen, Gay, Wee, EUROCRYPT 2015). Starting from the observation that predicate encodings admit a purely algebraic characterization equivalent to the original notion, we obtain several new results about predicate encodings. ...