ing away from terminology, these quotes straightforwardly paraphrase a syntactic passive relation between a direct object and a subject. The import of their findings is thus: the semantic role of the subject of a passive adjective is always that of the corresponding verb's deep direct object. This is exactly the conclusion that the passive sub-case of Move NP derives passive adjectives. 7.2. A ...

In constructing a system for learning commonsense knowledge by reading online resources for word definitions, a key challenge is to develop a formalism rich and expressive enough to capture commonsense concepts expressed in natural language. Derivations based on natural language impose strong requirements on the nature of the representation. Specifically, predicates should correspond to word se...

Manning, C.D. and Sag, I. A. 1998 Argument Structure, Valence, and Binding Nordic Journal of Linguistics This paper develops within HPSG a model of grammar with two syntactic levels, valence lists and argument structure, at which sentences may have di erent representations: syntactically ergative and Western Austronesian languages are distinctive by allowing di erent prominence orderings betwee...

A brief review of the historical relation between logic and ontology and of the opposition between the views of logic as language and logic as calculus is given. We argue that predication is more fundamental than membership and that different theories of predication are based on different theories of universals, the three most important being nominalism, conceptualism, and realism. These theori...

In three experiments using a speeded grammaticality judgement task the question was investigated of what role morphological ambiguity plays for syntactic ambiguity resolution. The stimuli were German verb-final clauses which are locally ambiguous between a subject-object and an object-subject reading and where the ambiguity is not caused by phrase-structural differences but by differing case-as...