Taiwanese abounds with verbal complexes. Among them, phasal complexes, resultative complexes, and directional complexes are alike in that their second component denotes some sort of result. Moreover, they behave similarly in that they can occur in V-ho-V, V-e/be-V, and V-bo-V forms. Despite the similarities, they still differ from one another in several aspects, such as whether objects are allo...

This paper proposesmetrics to evaluate the quality of automatically generatedmetaphors not restricted to similes. The metrics are metaphoricity, novelty, comprehensibility, and overall evaluation. First, we discuss their importance and necessity. Next, we show that it is feasible to evaluate them by crowdsourcing. The targets of the evaluation are 1,360 expressions, each of which consists of a ...

A fundamental problem in Natural Language Processing is the integration of syntactic and semantic constraints. In this paper we describe a new approach for the integration of syntactic and semantic constraints which takes advantage of a learned memory model. Our model combines localist representations for the integration of constraints and distributed representations for learning semantic const...

Discourse is a complete form of language unit arranged in its entirety so that it becomes single contains theme. There are two types discourse drama scripts, namely textual and contextual discourse. This research descriptive qualitative because this tries to collect data based on the literature used as analysis material. In grammatical relationships, there 105 reference which include personal, ...

Abstract. Communication is a very basic thing in human life, even communication has become phenomenon for the formation of society or community that integrated by information, where each individual itself shares information (Information sharing) to achieve common goals. . In simple terms, can occur when there similarity between message and person receiving message. providing task force accelera...

Verbal bullying is increasingly common among students and sometimes tends to result in serious problems, so it important know its forms causes that preventive actions can be carried out more quickly by the management of educational institutions. This study aims find verbal factors lead behavior santri two modern Islamic boarding schools. It uses descriptive qualitative approach, which data were...

There is a broad concensus among researchers working within the paradigm of HPSG that argument-inheritance (Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1989; 1994)) is an essential operation in the analysis of so-called verb clusters in German. An argument-inheritance verb subcategorizes for an unsaturated verbal complement, and for all the complements on the COMPS-list of this verbal complement. In German, auxilia...

We discuss the characteristics and behaviour of two parallel classes of verbs in two Romance languages, French and Portuguese. Examples of these verbs are Port. abater [gado] and Fr. abattre [bétail], both meaning ‘slaughter [cattle]’. Such collocations are intermediate cases between verbal idioms and largely free verb phrases. Precise knowledge of these verbs would aid recognition of verb sens...