On Adjectival Connotations

Adjectival Passives and Adjectival Decausatives in Hebrew

Treelex Meets Adjectival Tables

The paper presents Treelex, a valence lexicon of French adjectives automatically extracted from a treebank. The corpus contains morphological and syntactic annotations but no subcategorisation information is present for adjectives. Due to rich corpus annotations, our extraction method is guided by linguistic knowledge. The obtained lexicon (about 2000 adjectives and 40 frames) has been evaluate...

Deriving color adjectival nominalizations

In this paper I examine two types of nominalizations related to color adjectives in Greek, a suffixed one and a neutral one, which I will compare to their English and Dutch (and German) counterparts. I show that the two differ in that suffixed nominalizations denote stage level properties, while neuter nominalizations denote individual level properties. This difference is due to the fact that s...

Running Head: THE UNDESIRED SELF: DEADLY CONNOTATIONS The Undesired Self: Deadly Connotations

Two studies were conducted to examine the hypothesis derived from a juxtaposition of the undesired self and terror management theories that making aspects of the undesired self salient produces effects comparable to those obtained in response to making mortality salient. In Study 1, participants reminded of either death or aspects of their undesired self were more supportive of President George...

WordSleuth: Deducing Social Connotations from Syntactic Clues

0. Abstract The realm of social and emotional connotation is often thought to be the purview of humans rather than machines. Namely, humans are generally capable of recognizing social connotations including emotions (such as embarrassment), intentions (deception and persuading), attitudes (confidence and disbelief), and tone (formality, politeness, rudeness), and recent work has suggested that ...