Topics in Scandinavian Syntax

Topics in Ewe Syntax

Integrating Topics and Syntax

Statistical approaches to language learning typically focus on either short-range syntactic dependencies or long-range semantic dependencies between words. We present a generative model that uses both kinds of dependencies, and can be used to simultaneously find syntactic classes and semantic topics despite having no representation of syntax or semantics beyond statistical dependency. This mode...

Topics in Corpus-Based Dutch Syntax

Topics and Null arguments in Korean: the syntax and discourse

Null arguments and topics have been studied as two distinct phenomena, which are separately attributed to the discourse-oriented parameter and topic-prominent typology, respectively. As argued in Huang (1984), null arguments are allowed in languages like Korean, because they are discourse-recoverable, carrying old information. On the other hand, topics occur in the sentence-initial position in ...

Anaphora and Argument Structure: Topics in the Syntax and Semantics of Reflexives and Reciprocals

This thesis presents an examination of the syntactic and semantic properties of natural language reflexive and reciprocal expressions, which are commonly referred to as anaphors in syntactic theory. The work is carried out in the broader context of ‘binding theory’ and ‘control theory’. Binding theory has two main aspects. The first aspect is to explain the distribution of nominal expressions i...