Verbs, Adjectives, and Pred: Review of Mark C. Baker, Lexical Categories (M. C. Baker, Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectives)

A Morphological Analyzer for Japanese Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives

We present an open source morphological analyzer for Japanese nouns, verbs and adjectives. The system builds upon the morphological analyzing capabilities of MeCab [Matsumoto et al., 1999] to incorporate finer details of classification such as politeness, tense, mood and voice attributes. We implemented our analyzer in the form of a finite state transducer using the open source finite state com...

Disambiguating Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Using Automatically Acquired Selectional Preferences

Selectional preferences have been used by word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems as one source of disambiguating information. We evaluate WSD using selectional preferences acquired for English adjective–noun, subject, and direct object grammatical relationships with respect to a standard test corpus. The selectional preferences are specific to verb or adjective classes, rather than individual ...

Nouns, verbs, objects, actions, and abstractions: Local fMRI activity indexes semantics, not lexical categories

Noun/verb dissociations in the literature defy interpretation due to the confound between lexical category and semantic meaning; nouns and verbs typically describe concrete objects and actions. Abstract words, pertaining to neither, are a critical test case: dissociations along lexical-grammatical lines would support models purporting lexical category as the principle governing brain organisati...

Unergative Adjectives and Psych Verbs

The idea that the verb phrase is a layered constituent has been around in the literature for some time, e. shell theory plays an important role as well. In this paper I will argue that a particular interpretation of shell theory may provide insight into long standing problems such as the nature of syntactic ergativity and the structure of psychological verbs. Let us consider a VP–structure with...

English Nouns English Coarse English Verbs English Adjectives