The Compound Verb zag-uš

Mandarin Resultative Verb Compound Involves VP Complementation

Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds (RVCs) are verbal complexes of the form V1-V2, where V1 denotes an activity and V2 the result of that activity. Previous literature either assigns to RVCs a Complex Verb structure [V V1-V2] (Li 1990, Williams 2012) or a Small Clause structure [V1P V1 [SCV2]] (Sybesma 1999). In the paper, I will propose a VP Complementation syntax for Mandarin RVC [V1P V1 [V2P...

Transitivity of a Chinese Verb-Result Compound and Affected Argument of the Result Verb

The Chinese verb-result compound is productive, but its meaning and syntactic behaviors have posed challenges to theoretical and automatic analyses. Theory-wise, the current study proposes that VRs have inherent affecting direction, which argument mapping principles and selectional restrictions, event structures, or the kinds of semantic/pragmatic principles or real-world knowledge proposed by ...

The zig-zag product

The expander constructions based on algebraic methods can give expanders that are both explicit (i.e. we can quickly construct the graph, or even obtain neighborhood information without constructing the entire graph, and Ramanujan, meaning that the spectral gap is essentially as large as possible. It also follows from this spectral bound that the edge expansion of Ramanujan graphs is essentiall...

Recognition and Tagging of Compound Verb Groups in Czech

In Czech corpora compound verb groups are usually tagged in word-by-word manner. As a consequence, some of the morphological tags of particular components of the verb group lose their original meaning. We present a method for automatic recognition of compound verb groups in Czech. From an annotated corpus 126 definite clause grammar rules were constructed. These rules describe all compound verb...

A Japanese Compound Verb V-te-iku and Event Composition