Semantic clause types and modality as features for argument analysis1

Semantic clause types and modality as features for argument analysis1

This work investigates the role of semantic clause types and modality in argumentative texts. We annotate argumentative microtexts with situation entity (SE) classes and additionally label the segments that contain modal verbs with their modal senses. We analyse the correlation both of SE classes and of modal verbs and senses with components of argument structures (such as premises and conclusi...

Tagging Semantic Types for Verb Argument Positions

English. Verb argument positions can be described by the semantic types that characterise the words filling that position. We investigate a number of linguistic issues underlying the tagging of an Italian corpus with the semantic types provided by the T-PAS (Typed Predicate Argument Structure) resource. We report both quantitative data about the tagging and a qualitative analysis of cases of di...

Semantic Features in Argument Selection

One of the problems that has to be dealt with by theorists of early language acquisition theory is the mismatch between semantic constructs, like Agent, and syntactic ones, like subject. It is proposed that the linguistic system is based on semantic features that are more fine-grained than thematic roles, and that selection of subject and direct object can be accounted for by merely four semant...

The establishment clause argument for choice.

Clause Types

There are at least four senses in which one can talk about clause or sentence types in a language. One way is in terms of the distinction between declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences. This distinction, really one of sentence type, is discussed elsewhere in this anthology, in Chapter I.5 on Speech Act Distinctions in Syntax. A second sense of clause type is represented by the dis...