The syntax of nominalized complex verbal predicates in Dagaare

Complex predicates: The case of serial verbs in Dagaare and Akan

Semantic role labeling of nominalized predicates in Chinese

Recent work on semantic role labeling (SRL) has focused almost exclusively on the analysis of the predicate-argument structure of verbs, largely due to the lack of human-annotated resources for other types of predicates that can serve as training and test data for the semantic role labeling systems. However, it is wellknown that verbs are not the only type of predicates that can take arguments....

the verbal constructions in azari (harzani dialect)

most of the verbal constructions of harzani dialect have got inflectional affixes. the majority of the constructions are made up vy adding a specific verbal affix to the verbal stem (infinitive without infinitive marker). only a few number of them is formed by adding a verbal affix to the past participle of the verb. there are specific rules for the formation of different verbal types. there is...

Non-Verbal Predicates in Tongan

In any head-driven theory of clause structure, where clauses are some sort of verbal category, the presence of clauses without an overt verb poses an interesting puzzle. Should or can the non-verbal clauses be assimilated to verbal clauses via a phonologically-null verb, or should they be analyzed in another way? This issue has been the subject of a fair amount of research in HPSG over the last...

Psychological Predicates and the Syntax-semantics Interface

The hypothesis of the autonomy of syntax makes special demands on one of the central issues in linguistic theory: the specification of correspondences between a lexical conceptual and syntactic structure. One strategy is to distinguish several layers of lexical representation and allow only one of them to be "visible" to syntactic and morphological processes (cf. Pinker 1989, Grimshaw 1990). A ...