The current investigates the parsing process and its utilization of various linguistic information to resolve dependencies in Korean double relative clauses. While previous research has revealed evidence interference effects a distractor during dependency formations, involving formations by itself not been thoroughly explored. In light this, we aimed explore how grammatical-role parallelism mod...

Abstract This work investigates the syntax of nominal modification involving linker a in Siwkolan Amis, one dialects an Austronesian language spoken Taiwan. Based on two observed types NP-ellipsis patterns and formal licensing condition, I argue that Amis displays modification. Modifiers direct are functional heads projecting extended projections NP, whereas those indirect modifier phrases base...

Automatic grammar extraction from annotated corpora (Xia, 1999; Chen and Vijay-Shanker, 2000; Chiang, 2000; Hockenmaier and Steedman, 2002; Miyao et al., 2004) enabled us to build a widecoverage lexicalized grammar at low cost. They succeeded in extracting a large number of lexical entries with less effort while conventional methods only allow limited lexical entries to be acquired in realworld...

This paper presents a novel analysis of so-called gapless relative clause constructions such as Mandarin xiangpi ranshao de weidao (literally, ‘the smell that rubber burns’). Such constructions have been observed in East Asian languages. It is claimed that the Head noun of such relative clauses are relational nouns, and the clauses are their licensors. Syntactically, the Head nouns are predicat...

For the present work, we introduce and evaluate a novel Bayesian syntactic shallow parser that is able to perform robust detection of pairs of subject-object and subject-direct object-indirect object for a given verb, in a natural language sentence. The shallow parser infers on the correct subject-object pairs based on knowledge provided by Bayesian network learning from annotated text corpora....

PP-attachment has traditionally been tackled as a binary classification task where a preposition is attached to the immediately preceding noun or to the main verb. In this paper, we provide an analysis of PP-attachment in German to show that the assumption that prepositions have only two head candidates does not hold. We propose a realistic PP-attachment data set, in which each preposition has ...

A common assumption in current generative literature on cardinal numerals is that, with few exceptions, the structural relation between a numeral and the noun that it combines with is uniform, cross-linguistically as well as language-internally. Thus, the debate whether numerals are heads that select a projection of the noun as their complements (Ionin and Matushansky 2006), or specifiers of an...

Cognate-Head-Dependent Constructions (CHDCs) are employed across numerous genera in Africa to signpost alternations in the aspectual characteristics of a predicate or the information focus of a clause. The co-occurrence of a finite lexical verb (the cognate head) and an etymologically related (deverbal) noun or non-finite verb form (the cognate dependent) in such structures is interpreted with ...

The ability to detect similarity in conjunct heads is potentially a useful tool in helping to disambiguate coordination structures a difficult task for parsers. We propose a distributional measure of similarity designed for such a task. We then compare several different measures of word similarity by testing whether they can empirically detect similarity in the head nouns of noun phrase conjunc...