This paper argues that Korean lacks a distinct, open category of Adjective; what have been traditionally analyzed as adjectives are a kind of stative verbs. I propose that apparent noun-modifying adjectives in Korean are predicates inside relative clauses. The proposed analysis makes several predictions about the syntax and semantics of noun modifiers in Korean. In particular, it predicts that ...

An algebraic characterization of the families of tree languages definable by syntactic monoids is presented. This settles a question raised by several

We introduce here the notion of syntactic lattice algebra which is an analogy of the syntactic monoid and of the syntactic semiring. We present a unified approach to get those three structures.

The way we talk can influence how we are perceived by others. Whereas previous studies have started to explore the influence of social goals on syntactic alignment, in the current study, we additionally investigated whether syntactic alignment effectively influences conversation partners' perception of the speaker. To this end, we developed a novel paradigm in which we can measure the effect of...

People often speak about visually perceived events that unfold in real time. In doing so speakers regularly translate the details of the visual world they describe onto the grammatical properties of the sentences about it. For example, the speaker needs to map her constantly changing attentional state onto the syntactic plan of the produced sentences. The present paper briefly discusses what at...

Introduction It is well known that so-called ergative languages are classified roughly into two groups: those which show an ergative pattern only at the morphological level and those which exhibit an ergative pattern also at the syntactic level. Syntactic ergativity is a curious phenomenon in the following respects. First, while there is apparently some correlation between morphological and syn...

Abstract There is accumulating evidence that distinct forms of domain-general inhibition underlie the selection lexical candidates from among co-activated representations in single-word production. It less clear whether similar control processes are engaged resolution syntactic conflict sentence This study assessed relative contribution three types inhibitory operating at different stages infor...

Given a variety of finite monoids V, a subset of a monoid is a V-subset if its syntactic monoid belongs to V. A function between two monoids is V-preserving if it preservesV-subsets under preimages and it is hereditary V-preserving if it is W-preserving for every subvariety W of V. The aim of this paper is to study hereditary V-preserving functions when V is one of the following varieties of fi...

We solve two open problems concerning syntactic complexity: We prove that the cardinality of the syntactic semigroup of a left ideal or a suffix-closed language with n left quotients (that is, with state complexity n) is at most n n−1 + n − 1, and that of a two-sided ideal or a factor-closed language is at most n n−2 + (n − 2)2 n−2 + 1. Since these bounds are known to be reachable, this settles...