Unclear Predication in the <Evaluative Adjective +Infinitive> Construction

The Infinitive as a Complement of a Predicate of Incomplete Predication

0.1 The purpose of this paper is to describe the Hebrew infinitive (henceforth: INF) in its function as a complement that completes a predicate of incomplete predication. The description applies to the INF in Israeli Hebrew (IH) only, and is based on research of a very limited corpus. We have collected 2022 occurrences of INF from different levels of IH, which are derived from a controlled and ...

Unclear on the Context: Refocusing on Information Literacy's Evaluative Component in the Age of Google

Our students arrive at college already familiar with, if not expert in, Internet searching; with the wealth of information available on the surface Web, why delve deeper? Proscribing searching the free Internet for resources is no longer a viable option, if in fact it ever was: with government-issued information going online, freely available bibliographic indexes such as PubMED and the Protein...

Reducing False Positives in the Construction of Adjective Scales

Many adjectives that appear to be synonyms of one another differ in their intensity. Distinguishing the nuances between adjective synonyms is vital to linguistic understanding of a language, but WordNet currently does not encode the relative intensities of adjective synonyms that lie on the scale. Sheinman & Tokunaga (2009) proposed a solution of constructing Adjective Scales by data mining a w...

Analyzing Japanese Double-Subject Construction having an Adjective Predicate

This paper describes a mefllod for ~malyzing Japanese double-subject constniction having an adjective predicate based on the valency structure. A simple sentence usually has only one subjective case in most languages. However, lnmly Japancse adjeclivcs (and some verbs) can dominate two surface subjective cases within a simple sentence. Such sentence structure is called lhe double-subject constr...

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