quantifier phrase and classifier phrase in sarhadi dialect of balochi; a minimalist analysis

PHRASE STRUCTURE IN MINIMALIST SYNTAX by

This thesis is a study of clause architecture within a theory of generative grammar. It discusses four major syntactic hypotheses that have crucial bearing on the design of phrase structure: the Agreement-based Case theory, the internal subject hypothesis (ISH), the uniform three-level X-bar theory, and a hypothesis about string vacuous head movement. In Chapter 2 through Chapter 4, I discuss o...

Minimalist variability in the verb phrase*

This paper discusses language variation from a minimalist perspective. Building on work from MacDonald (2006, 2008a,b), I discuss a clustering of inner aspectual properties from English eventive predicates, which Russian lacks. Interestingly, English statives also lack this cluster. I offer an account for the presence vs. absence of this aspectual cluster in terms of the presence vs. absence of...

Late Adjunction and Minimalist Phrase Structure

An algorithm of phrase structure building is proposed within the bare phrase structure framework. The algorithm is rooted in the idea that applications of Merge -the operation that combines syntactic objects -should not change the set of basic relations (in particular, c-command) in the existing structure, what Chomsky (2000) terms 'Least Tampering'. Under the proposed algorithm, this idea tran...

Single-Classifier Memory-Based Phrase Chunking

a contrastive analysis of concord and head parameter in english and azerbaijani

این پایان نامه به بررسی و مقایسه دو موضوع مطابقه میان فعل و فاعل (از نظر شخص و مشار) و هسته عبارت در دو زبان انگلیسی و آذربایجانی می پردازد. اول رابطه دستوری مطابقه مورد بررسی قرار می گیرد. مطابقه به این معناست که فعل مفرد به همراه فاعل مفرد و فعل جمع به همراه فاعل جمع می آید. در انگلیسی تمام افعال، بجز فعل بودن (to be) از نظر شمار با فاعلشان فقط در سوم شخص مفرد و در زمان حال مطابقت نشان میدهند...

Resolving prepositional phrase attachment ambiguities in Spanish with a classifier

In this paper we present a classifier that solves a certain kind of ambiguities in syntactic structure for Spanish, namely, ambiguities as to the point of adjunction of a prepositional phrase in the syntactic structure of a sentence (PP attachment). As a starting point, we used EsTxala dependency grammar for Spanish, integrated within FreeLing, with an accuracy score of 61% on PP adjunction. Ou...