Verbal fields in Hungarian simple sentences and infinitival clausal complements
نویسنده
چکیده
The paper presents an analysis of Hungarian sentence articulation driven by discourse-semantic functions such as topic and focus, hence the information structure of the utterance. In this paper extensions of the standard LTAG framework are proposed to represent the information structure driven positions in simple sentences. The elementary trees are generated by the meta-grammar, using the XMG tool for grammar writing. The verbal fields will also be investigated in complex sentences with infinitival clausal complements. I will discuss challenging phenomena, such as scrambling of the different verbal fields, and verbal mod-ifier climbing.
منابع مشابه
Detection and Classification of Events in Hungarian Natural Language Texts
The detection and analysis of events in natural language texts plays an important role in several NLP applications such as summarization and question answering. In this study we introduce a machine learning-based approach that can detect and classify verbal and infinitival events in Hungarian texts. First we identify the multiword noun + verb and noun + infinitive expressions. Then the events a...
متن کاملAnother Look at the Syntax of Hungarian Verbal Particles
The Hungarian verbal particle, this tiny function (grammatical) word causes a lot of headache to linguists to this day. One of the most difficult questions refers to its structural position. The most recent syntactic analysis (É. Kiss 2006, 2008) assumes that the Hungarian verbal particle is inserted in postverbal argument (complement) position because its role is similar to that of the resulta...
متن کاملNouns and their prepositional phrase complements in English
This paper concerns one aspect of work in progress on a PhD thesis on the complementation of nouns in English (See Bowen (forthcoming)). The purpose of the thesis is to give a description of nouns and their complements which will prove of interest to linguists but will also be of interest, from a pedagogical point of view, to learners of English. Although there are extensive surveys of the noun...
متن کاملWhen conversation is not enough: assessing infinitival complements through elicitation.
Children with language impairment have been found to show limited usage of infinitival complements, one of the earliest complex sentence types to emerge and a significant form in school-age language. Children's production of infinitival complements in conversation is not sufficient to tell us what they know about this form. This article describes a story completion procedure for eliciting infin...
متن کاملDetecting Opinion Sentences Specific to Product Features in Customer Reviews using Typed Dependency Relations
Customer reviews contain opinions of the customers who purchased products and expressed opinions concerning their satisfactions and criticisms. Due to vast availability of product reviews in the web, it is extremely time-consuming and at times confusing for a new customer to manually analyze the reviews prior to buying a product. Reviews generally involve the presence of product feature specifi...
متن کامل