Abstract This article develops foundations for a new typology of nominal expressions. Despite the significant diversity attested in languages around world, view traditionally and sometimes still found holds that either have ‘classic’, rigidly structured noun phrases (NPs) or lack them. A simple dichotomy, however, does not adequately represent language-internal crosslinguistic forms functions W...

Syntactic theories differ with respect to how they determine the wellformedness or illformedness of a given sentence Si in a given language. One possibility is that the decision of whether Si is grammatical or not can be made by exclusively considering properties of Si ; properties of other sentences S j , Sk , ... are irrelevant. Another possibility is that properties of other sentences S j , ...

Most statistical machine translation (SMT) systems use phrase-to-phrase translations to capture local context information, leading to better lexical choices and more reliable word reordering. Long phrases capture more contexts than short phrases and result in better translation qualities. On the other hand, the increasing amount of bilingual data poses serious problems for storing all possible ...

Much of the literature studying on-line sentence comprehension focuses on the contributions of individual lexical items, with specific interest in verbs. One aspect of sentence meaning that has been claimed to be rooted in verb representation is event structure. There is a growing body of evidence supporting the claim that the verb is not the sole contributor of event structure, but the syntact...

A central concern of linguistic theory is to account for how the arguments of a given lexical item are associated with positions in a syntactic structure. Many theorists hold that this mapping is mediated by a so-called thematic hierarchy. In Principles-and-Parameters style theories this typically works as follows. A verb selects arguments with certain thematic (θ-) roles. These θ−roles are ran...