Gapping Constructions in Universal Dependencies v2

Towards a QUD-Based Analysis of Gapping Constructions

In this paper I examine what have often been considered the syntactic properties of Gapping constructions (Ross, 1970) and show that they are in fact discourse-pragmatic in nature. I offer a novel analysis of Gapping constructions by extending recent Question Under Discussion (QUD)-based accounts in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Ginzburg and Sag, 2000; Ginzburg, 2012).

Universal Dependencies for Greek

This paper describes work towards the harmonization of the Greek Dependency Treebank with the Universal Dependencies v2 standard, and the extension of the treebank with enhanced dependencies. Experiments with the latest version of the UD_Greek resource have led to 88.94/87.66 LAS on gold/automatic POS, morphological features and lemmas.

Embedding the antecedent in gapping: Low coordination and the role of parallelism

Building on a long tradition of earlier work, Johnson (2009:293) identifies three unique properties that distinguish gapping from superficially similar elliptical constructions, such as pseudogapping, e.g. Some had ordered mussels, and others had ∆ swordfish. First, gapping is restricted to coordination structures (2) (Jackendoff 1971:22, Hankamer 1979:18f.). Second, the gap in gapping cannot b...

On Syntax-Semantics of Gapping Constructions

Linguistic Typology meets Universal Dependencies

Current work on universal dependency schemes in NLP does not make reference to the extensive typological research on language universals, but could benefit since many principles are shared between the two enterprises. We propose a revision of the syntactic dependencies in the Universal Dependencies scheme (Nivre et al. [16, 17]) based on four principles derived from contemporary typological the...