Prepositional phrase attachment is a major disambiguation problem when it’s about parsing natural language, for many languages. In this paper a low resources policy is proposed using supervised machine learning algorithms in order to resolve the disambiguation problem of prepositional phrase attachment in Modern Greek. It is a first attempt to resolve prepositional phrase attachment in Modern G...

the main purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of metaphor and its functions in education. there are two main parts in this paper: the first is to discuss the six major classic and modern theories of metaphor according to their cognitive and intellectual functions , and the second is to identify and classify the four types of figurative language including metaphor, simile, allegory an...

As noted by Huddleston and Pullum (2002, p. 1433), prepositional passives can be divided into two classes, depending on the syntactic function of the PP. In Type I prepositional passives, the PP is a complement whose prepositional head is idiomatically selected by the verb, as in (1b); in Type II prepositional passives as in (1c), the preposition is not part of a verbal idiom. Huddleston and Pu...

ABSTRAK: Aspek leksikal dan gramatikal perlu dikuasai anak dalam pembelajaran bahasa Indonesia pada jenjang Sekolah Dasar dengan memanfaatkan lagu berbasis multiple intelligence untuk mendukung perkembangan kompetensi kebahasaannya. Artikel ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan tiga fokus penelitian, yaitu (1) aspek leksikal, (2) gramatikal, (3) muatan Indonesia. Penelitian merupakan sistematik review ...

The aim of this work is to analyze the influence semantic-pragmatic factors in establishment Spanish subject-verb agreement those cases which nominal that functions as a subject manifested through (pseudo)partitive construction, formed by singular nucleus + plural prepositional phrase (un grupo de neurocientíficos han decidido acabar con los interrogantes del experimento / un chicos se acercó m...

Abstract One of the great unknowns in language evolution is transition from unstructured sign combination to grammatical structure. This paper investigates central — while hitherto overlooked role functor–argument metaphor. type metaphor pervades modern language, but absent animal communication. It arises semantic clash between default meanings terms. Functor–argument became logically possible ...

1. Introduction The evolutionary scenario as a model for linguistic change has become more prominent in recent years (Croft 2000, Haspelmath 1999, Kirby 1999). The principled idea behind the evolutionary scenario is quite straightforward: change operates on the basis of variation between available linguistic options and the selection of options in the course of speakers' use, such that particul...

This paper’ presents a novel methodology of resolving prepositional phrase attachment ambiguities. The approach consists of three phases. First, we rely on a publicly available database to classify a large corpus of prepositional attachments extracted from the Treebank parses. As a by-product, the arguments of every prepositional relation are semantically disambiguated. In the second phase, the...