Although diathesis alternations have been used as features for manual verb classification, and there is recent work on incorporating such features in computational models of human language acquisition, work on large scale verb classification has yet to examine the potential for using diathesis alternations as input features to the clustering process. This paper proposes a method for approximati...

Verb alternations have been researched extensively in linguistics, but they have not yet received a systematic treatment in natural language generation systems; consequently, generators cannot make informed choices among alternatives. As a step towards overcoming this discrepancy, we review some linguistic work on several prominent alternations, revise and extend it, and suggest a set of rules ...

Within the debate about heterogeneity of unaccusative structures, aim this paper is to distinguish two types Spanish marked anticausative inherent reciprocals (AIRs) from other syntactic (SRs) with se. Several diagnostics show that AIRs such as mezclarse ‘get mixed’ are symmetric, unaccusative, telic, and causative alternations, while SRs transitive vary in their aspectual properties do not alt...

We investigate quantifier alternation hierarchies in first-order logic on finite words. Levels in these hierarchies are defined by counting the number of quantifier alternations in formulas. We prove that one can decide membership of a regular language in the levels $\mathcal{B}{\Sigma}_2$ (finite boolean combinations of formulas having only one alternation) and ${\Sigma}_3$ (formulas having on...

The goal of this paper is to propose a classification of the syntactic alternations admitted by the most frequent Italian verbs. The data-driven two-steps procedure exploited and the structure of the identified classes of alternations are presented in depth and discussed. Even if this classification has been developed with a practical application in mind, namely the semi-automatic building of a...

This research is aimed at developing a valency dictionary architecture to comprehensively list the full range of alternations associated with a given predicate sense, both efficiently and robustly. The architecture is designed to incorporate all relevant information included in the on-line version of GoiTaikei — a Japanese Lexicon, as well as additional features such as argument status, grammat...

The main objective of this paper is to introduce an alternation-based model of valency lexicon of Czech verbs VALLEX. Alternations describe regular changes in valency structure of verbs – they are seen as transformations taking one lexical unit and return a modified lexical unit as a result. We characterize and exemplify ‘syntactically-based’ and ‘semantically-based’ alternations and their effe...

Korean has a very complex phonology, with many interacting alternations. In a coronal-/i/ sequence, depending on the type of phonological boundary present, alternations such as palatalization, nasal insertion, nasal assimilation, coda neutralization, and intervocalic voicing can apply. This paper investigates how the phonological patterns of Korean affect processing of morphemes and words. Past...