The aim of this paper is to account for the behaviour of Polish pronom-inal clitics in tense auxiliary constructions. In particular, we discuss the phenomenon known as clitic climbing (CC) and provide its HPSG account. Unlike Romance or Germanic languages, Polish employs only one tense auxiliary verb by´c 'be'. The future tense of imperfective verbs is formed with the strong form of the auxilia...

Resumo: Este artigo apresenta resultados de uma pesquisa que objetivou verificar a aquisição formas verbais relacionadas tempo e aspecto, demonstrando investigação realizada após o estudo do surgimento estruturas (na forma simples na perifrástica – auxiliar verbo principal) efetivamente produzidas por cinco crianças monolíngues, entre 2 anos idade 5 11 meses idade, no processo linguagem. O corp...

the main goal of this research is to study, through the minimalist program, the mechanism of checking phi(φ)-features (person & number) and nominative case in persian sentences. different syntactic structures are examined in this paper. it is shown that verb raising is overt in persian and that the uninterpretable φ-features of the finite tense head are valued & checked by the interpretable φ-f...

Bilingual and monolingual children's (mean age=4;10) elicited production of the past tense in both English and French was examined in order to test predictions from Usage-Based theory regarding the sensitivity of children's acquisition rates to input factors such as variation in exposure time and the type/token frequency of morphosyntactic structures. Both bilingual and monolingual children wer...

This study examines F0 influence on perception of Korean initial lax, aspirated, and tense consonants by Japanese learners of the Korean language. Stimuli consisted of monosyllabic sounds (/ta, tsa, ta, tsa/) with interchanged F0s, including lax and aspirated consonants. Results from recognition testing of the stimuli found that both beginning and advanced learners paid less attention to stimul...

The paper presents an approach for constructing a weighted bilingual dictionary of inflectional forms using as input data a traditional bilingual dictionary, and not parallel corpora. An algorithm is developed that generates all possible morphological (inflectional) forms and weights them using information on distribution of corresponding grammar sets (grammar information) in large corpora for ...

Tense prediction can be useful for many language processing tasks, such as temporal inference and machine translation. In this paper, we investigate using diverse contextual features for Chinese tense prediction under a statistical learning framework. Because of lack of annotated training data, we propose to leverage ChineseEnglish parallel corpora to automatically generate reference tense for ...

The authors set three major goals for the book: to increase our understanding of the ‘relationship between lexical semantics and morphology in language acquisition’ (p. 8), to review and evaluate pertinent hypotheses ‘with respect to empirical evidence from crosslinguistic studies of English, Chinese, and Japanese, in both first and second language acquisition’ (p. 8), and to investigate ‘the l...

This paper proposes a two-level model that integrates tense and aspect information, based on theories by both Hornstein (in the spirit of Reichenbach) and Allen, with lexicai-semantic information based on an extended version of $ackendoff's theory that includes a verb classification system proposed by Dowty and Vendler. The model is intended to be extensible to realms outside of the temporal do...