This paper examines the extent to which verb diathesis alternations are empirically attested in corpus data. We automatically acquire alternating verbs from large balanced corpora by using partialparsing methods and taxonomic information, and discuss how corpus data can be used to quantify linguistic generalizations. We estimate the productivity of an alternation and the typicality of its membe...

In this paper we will discuss interpretation of adverbs in Japanese. We will explore the division of labor between the syntactic requirements, semantic requirements, and discourse-contextual constraints involving adverbial interpretation. It will then be argued that this inter-modular approach utilizing LFG explains various elusive paradigms of the adverbs. 1. Scope Ambiguity and Lexical Semant...

We challenge the predominant view of the English dative alternation, which takes all alternating verbs to have two meanings: a caused possession meaning realized by the double object variant and a caused motion meaning realized by the to variant. Instead, we argue that verbs like give and sell only have a caused possession meaning, while verbs like throw and send have both caused motion and cau...

In [] we defined Inf-Datalog and characterized the fragments of Monadic inf-Datalog that have the same expressive power as Modal Logic (resp. CTL, alternation-free Modal μ-calculus and Modal μ-calculus). We study here the time and space complexity of evaluation of Monadic inf-Datalog programs on finite models. We deduce a new unified proof that model checking has 1. linear data and program comp...

Most men live in a world dominated by a single periodicity, the alternation of light and darkness. This alternation adheres closely to a period of 24 hours, and all our life is geared to it. We wake and sleep, work and rest, eat and fast in a pattern which conforms to this alternation of light and darkness. The chief consequence of technological advance, is that now it is possible, by means of ...

A molecular-dynamics simulation has been carried out for amorphous selenium. The simulation used 64 atoms in a constant volume simple cubic cell. The pair correlation function, g…r†, and structure factor, S…Q†, were computed and compared with experimental and previous theoretical studies. The average coordination number is exactly 2. Only one defect, an intimate valence alternation pair type de...

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...

Rats with lesions in the neostriatal region that belongs to the prefrontal system were trained in two versions of delayed alternation. They performed as proficiently as intact animals in a two-key operant chamber. The same operated rats took many more trials to reach criterion when subsequently compared with the same control group in a T-maze. This finding demonstrates that variants of delayed ...

Spatial alternation, win-shift behavior has been claimed to be a test of working memory in rodents that requires active maintenance of relevant, trial-specific information. In this review, we describe work with GluA1 AMPA receptor subunit knockout mice that show impaired spatial alternation, but normal spatial reference memory. Due to their selective impairment on spatial alternation, GluA1 kno...

Recent evidence indicates that systemic glucose treatment enhances memory while producing a corresponding increase in hippocampal acetylcholine (ACh) output. The present experiments examined whether unilateral intrahippocampal infusions of glucose would enhance spontaneous alternation performance and whether there would be a corresponding increase in ACh output in the ipsilateral and contralate...