The present longitudinal study investigates the acquisition of determiners (articles) in two simultaneously bilingual French-Italian children aged 1;6,12 until 3;5,17, one them being French-dominant and other Italian-dominant. Although French Italian determiner phrases share some syntactic aspects, they largely differ with respect to noun length lexical stress nominal domain. Prosody is expecte...

Abstract This paper discusses the morpho-syntax of phrasal proper names like Deutsche Bahn ‘German Railway’ and Norske Skog ‘Norwegian Forest’ in German Norwegian. As regards determiner elements, there are three types German: some do not have a definite article, do, yet others exhibit possessive. Depending on syntactic context, first two pattern same as presence or absence article but contrast ...

For some language pairs, pronoun translation is a discourse-driven task which requires information that lies beyond its local context. This motivates the task of predicting the correct pronoun given a source sentence and a target translation, where the translated pronouns have been replaced with placeholders. For crosslingual pronoun prediction, we suggest a neural network-based model using pre...

We present a pipelined architecture for a text simplification system and describe our implementation of the three stages— analysis, transformation and regeneration. Our architecture allows each component to be developed and evaluated independently. We lay particular emphasis on the discourse level aspects of syntactic simplification as these are crucial to the process and have not been dealt wi...

In the first part of this paper I draw a typology of definiteness; later I reflect on the definiteness of NPs in an IL-representation. The major result is given by the determiner generators. Definiteness should be evaluated in a Q-A system and in MT. The extensive functionality of definiteness is first elaborated in the parsing and results in an ILrepresentation; finally the determiner generato...

This paper investigates the notion of the maximality effect and its formal implementation. It will be shown that the maximal witness sets that an anaphor can access are sensitive to the plural readings of the anaphor’s antecedents. It will also be shown that the formal semantics of the maximality effect should not be implemented on the interpretation of either determiners or anaphors. Instead, ...

For the treatment of agreement in Dutch NPs I adopt a distinction, familiar from HPSG, between morphosyntactic agreement and index agreement. In order to determine their respective roles, I make another distinction, proposed in Van Eynde (2003), between marked and unmarked nominals. Employing these distinctions, I will demonstrate that the combination of prenominal adjectives and determiners wi...

It has been demonstrated that a round object viewed obliquely is matched with ellipses which are more circular than would be predicted from geometrical optics (16). Such data are examples of the tendency toward "shape constancy," a theoretical condition in which perceived circularity is constant independent of the angle of regard and the corresponding retinal image pattern. Various factors have...

Recent versions of the Extended Standard Theory (e.g., Chomsky 1981, 1986) have proposed that syntactic structures are largely projectable from the properties of their constituent lexical items in particular, from their thematic properties. In this paper I argue for an extension of this approach to nominal structure. My focus will not be on nominals related in an obvious way to verbal projectio...