As noted by Huddleston and Pullum (2002, p. 1433), prepositional passives can be divided into two classes, depending on the syntactic function of the PP. In Type I prepositional passives, the PP is a complement whose prepositional head is idiomatically selected by the verb, as in (1b); in Type II prepositional passives as in (1c), the preposition is not part of a verbal idiom. Huddleston and Pu...

Tiffs work belongs to a family of research efforts, called nficrotheories and aimed at describing the static inemfing of all lexical categories in several languages in the fr,'unework of tile MikroKosmos project on computational semantics. The latter also involves other static microtheories describing world kalowledge and syntax-semantics mapping as well as dynamic microtheories comlected with ...

In this paper, an automatic method for Persian WordNet construction based on Prenceton WordNet 2.1 (PWN) is introduced. The proposed approach uses Persian and English corpora as well as a bilingual dictionary in order to make a mapping between PWN synsets and Persian words. Our method calculates a score for each candidate synset of a given Persian word and for each of its translation, it select...

The article is devoted to the study of functioning English adjectival emotive units denoting positive semantics as direct linguistic means representing human emotional states that combine semantic and pragmatic components meaning. aim this paper determine features with meaning in modern English. defined approach investigation led use those research methods correspond best its goals: particular,...