The authors propose 2 categories of situational moderators of gender in negotiation: situational ambiguity and gender triggers. Reducing the degree of situational ambiguity constrains the influence of gender on negotiation. Gender triggers prompt divergent behavioral responses as a function of gender. Field and lab studies (1 and 2) demonstrated that decreased ambiguity in the economic structur...

Since Perlmutter (1968, 1970) argued that English aspectual verbs are ambiguous between control and raising, the phenomenon has been argued or assumed to exist in a number of other languages, such as French (Lamiroy 1987, Ruwet 1991), German (Wurmbrand 2001), Greek (Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou 1999), Hebrew (Landau 2003), Italian (Rizzi 1982, Burzio 1986), Japanese (Shibatani 1973, 1978, Kuno 1...

There are several types of ambiguity in natural languages, including lexical ambiguity, syntactic (or structural) ambiguity, quantifier scope ambiguity, and anaphora (or ambiguity of reference). Each type of ambiguity must be resolved for a natural language understanding program to be effective. Since syntax often limits the possible meanings of a sentence (and the words in the sentence), natur...

Previous analyses of (Korean) Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) have failed to provide objective criteria for defining LVCs. The verb hais inconsistently regarded as a Light Verb (LV) or as a "heavy verb" depending on its environment. In the face of this problem, I argue, firstly, that all ha-sentences should be analyzed as LVCs when the potential Verbal Noun (VN) has at least one of the verbally...

Two major issues in formal language learnability are the problem of learning restrictive distributions (sometimes known as the “subset problem”), and the problem of structural ambiguity. While substantial progress has been made in addressing each of these problems in isolation, a complication can arise when a learner is faced with a learning situation that exhibits both problems. It is possible...