This restriction cannot be attributed to an animacy hierarchy effect with respect to the interpretation of possessors in ASL, nor can it be straightforwardly accommodated by semantic approaches analyzing possession as a contextually-defined relational variable (see Barker 1995 for English). The analysis here does account for this restriction, appealing only to (a) independently-motivated proper...

We present a method for automatically converting the Dutch Lassy Small treebank, a phrasal dependency treebank, to UD. All of the information required to produce accurate UD annotation appears to be available in the underlying annotation. However, we also note that the close connection between POS-tags and dependency labels that is present in UD is missing in the Lassy treebanks. As a consequen...

This paper focuses on a particular type of abusive language, targeting expressions in which typically neutral adjectives take on pejorative meaning when used as nouns compare gay people to the gays. We first collect and analyze a corpus of hand-curated, expert-annotated pejorative nominalizations for four target adjectives: female, gay, illegal, and poor. We then collect a second corpus of auto...

Nominalization is a highly productive phenomena in most languages. The process of nominaliza-tion ejects a verb from its syntactic role into a nominal position. The original verb is often replaced by a semantically emptied support verb (e.g., make a proposal). The choice of a support verb for a given nomi-nalization is unpredictable, causing a problem for language learners as well as for natura...

The purpose of this research is to describe strategies used by journalists in marginalizing corruptors available law and political rubrics Kompas Daily examined using a discourse analysis with Theo Van Leeuwen model. This conducted descriptive-qualitative method. data are the forms transcriptions texts rubrics. Data taken from on editions 29 may 2013 – 7 June 2013. Based discussion, it can be c...

Based on linguistic generalizations, we enhanced an existing semantic processor, SemRep, for effective interpretation of a wide range of patterns used to express arguments of nominalization in clinically oriented biomedical text. Nominalizations are pervasive in the scientific literature, yet few text mining systems adequately address them, thus missing a wealth of information. We evaluated the...

This study investigates brain potentials to derived word forms in Spanish. Two experiments were performed on derived nominals that differ in terms of their productivity and semantic properties but are otherwise similar, an acceptability judgment task and a reading experiment using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in which correctly and incorrectly formed derived words were presented in sen...