Abstract This paper seeks to explore the possibility that Spanish intransitive verbs showing middle marking with no associated change of valency are a source non-oppositional verbs. In order do so, study is conducted historical evolution middle-marked verb reír(se) ‘to laugh’ as well other semantically related (such alegrar(se) be happy, pleased’, regocijarse rejoice’ and burlar(se) , mofar(se)...

In this paper we present a contrastive study of one interesting non-correspondence between deep syntactic valency structures of two different languages. On the material of the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank we observe sentences in which an Addressee argument in one language is linked translationally to a Patient argument in the other one, particularly we aim our attention at the class...

Recent development showed that valency information provides a great benefit in many areas of natural language processing. Building valency lexicons is however a complex and time-consuming task from both theoretical and practical points of view, since designing of the lexicon plays a crucial role in its future usability as well as its careful and considerated preparation. As for any manually cre...

In this thesis we classify primitive amalgams of degree (5,2) and thereby obtain a description of symmetric graphs of valency 5. There are 22 such amalgams, and together with this list, we find the presentations for the universal completions of such amalgams and an example of a faithful finite completion in each case. Our methods include group theory, the amalgam method and some modular represe...

We show that each distance-regular graph of valency four has known parameters.

Valency slot filling is a semantic glue, which brings together the meanings of words. As regards the position of an argument in the dependency structure with respect to its predicate, there exist three types of valency filling: active (canonical), passive, and discontinuous. Of these, the first type is studied much better than the other two. As a rule, canonical actants are unambiguously marked...

One way in which organisms learn is by feelings of pleasure and pain, which can be said to be equivalent to the reward function commonly used in computational applications of reinforcement learning. It is likely that pleasure and pain have become associated with good and bad actions through evolution, and similarly one might wish to investigate if it is possible to evolve the reward function us...

This study presents a thermal model, derived from first principles, for electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs) with multiple ion species and/or asymmetric electrolytes. It accounts for both irreversible and reversible heat generation rates resulting from the transient electrodiffusion of ions within the electrolyte. Detailed numerical simulations of EDLCs with planar electrodes and binary and...

Information on subcategorization and selectional restrictions in a valency dictionary is very important for natural language processing in tasks such as monolingual parsing, accurate rule-based machine translation and automatic summarization. However, adding this detailed information is both time consuming and costly. In this paper we present a method of assigning valency information and select...

Let $G$ be a permutation group on set $\Omega$ and recall that base for is subset of such its pointwise stabiliser trivial. In recent paper, Burness Giudici introduced the Saxl graph $G$, denoted $\Sigma(G)$, with vertex two vertices adjacent if they form base. If transitive, then $\Sigma(G)$ vertex-transitive it natural to consider valency (which we refer as $G$). this paper present general me...