This research focuses on expanding PropBank, a corpus annotated with predicate argument structures, with new predicate types; namely, noun, adjective and complex predicates, such as Light Verb Constructions. This effort is in part inspired by a sister project to PropBank, the Abstract Meaning Representation project, which also attempts to capture “who is doing what to whom” in a sentence, but d...

Er -nominalisations which take CP complements are rare in English, but possible. A common construction involving one is to be a firm believer that…. I propose that the behaviour of CP-taking er (‘CoPTErs’) results from tension. On hand, they Argument Structure Nominals sense Grimshaw (1990), and ‘inherit’ argument-taking properties their parent verb. So if verb believe can argument, correspondi...

Practitioners of English Natural Language Processing often feel fortunate because their tokens are clearly marked by spaces on either side. However, the spaces can be quite deceptive, since they ignore the boundaries of multi-word expressions, such as noun-noun compounds, verb particle constructions, light verb constructions and constructions from Construction Grammar, e.g., caused-motion const...

The Generative Lexicon (GL) theory (Pustejovsky 1995) has proved its usefulness in the analysis of numerous linguistic phenomena across languages. Moreover, elements from Generative Lexicons have been shown to be relevant in several natural language processing (NLP) applications (e.g. information retrieval, etc.). For instance, the qualia structure gives access to relational information, crucia...

In linguistics, there are various approaches to the selection of sentence elements: members, word classes, theme and rheme, etc. One types division can be syntax analysis, namely, allocation differential syntactic-semantic features elementary syntactic units in structure sentences. It is known that all existing practical theoretical grammars analysis by dividing involved device into primary sec...

We report three eye-movement experiments and an antecedent choice task investigating the interpretation of reflexives in different syntactic contexts. This included contexts in which the reflexive and a local antecedent were coarguments of the same verbal predicate (John heard that the soldier had injured himself), and also so-called picture noun phrases, either with a possessor (John heard abo...

In his recent article Deutscher (2009: 199) suggests that “nominalization is an unsung hero in the story of subordination”. He goes on to say that “[t]he ability to derive a noun from a verb, that is, to reify a verbal predicate and present it as a nominal argument or modifier, is the core of subordination”. While Deutscher (2009) believes that the relevant nominalization for his study is “deri...

Nominalization is a linguistic phenomenon in which events usually described in terms of clauses are expressed in the form of noun phrases. Extracting event structures is an important task in text mining applications. To achieve this goal, clauses are parsed and the argument structure of main verbs are extracted from the parsed results. This kind of preprocessing has been commonly done in the pa...

This paper examines modern French adjective and nominative constructions with a qualitative adjective, noun defined by it dependent prepositional noun, complement to the adjective. The in such construction is predicate that assigns semantic roles category features its arguments. rection of transitive usage adjectives enable are included inter-part-of-speech lexico-semantic field relation. topic...