Traditionally, syntactic parsing is done using probabilistic context-free grammars (PCFGs) or variants thereof, as there are standard efficient methods for parsing with PCFGs and for extracting them from a corpus. However, PCFGs do not accurately represent many dependencies in natural language. For example, many determiners can only occur with certain types of nouns. Determiners like a and anot...

This paper generalizes the notion of monotonicities to opposition properties (OPs). Some propositions regarding the OPs of determiners will be proposed and proved. We will also define the notion of OP-chain and deduce a condition that enables us to determine the OPs of an iterated quantifier in its predicates based on the OPs of its constituent determiners.

This paper proposes that quantificational determiners come in two varieties, one which makes use of feature checking and the other that relies on binding, and that the typology of head-internal relative clauses (HIRC) is sensitive to this parametrization of quantificational determiners, once the existence of HIRC is made possible by an independent parameter. Challenge: Our point of departure is...

This paper discusses the determiners slik and sånn ‘such (a), like this/that’ in American Norwegian (AmNo), extent to which pragmaticalised uses of these determiners, carrying information about speaker’s attitudes speaker-hearer relations, can be found. It is shown that are used, but their distribution differs some respects from homeland variety; notably, AmNo, lexical variant more common than ...

The study of generalized quantifiers over the past 15 years has enriched enormously our understanding of natural language determiners (Dets). It has yielded answers to questions raised independently within generative grammar and it has provided us with new semantic generalizations, ones that were basically unformulable without the conceptual and technica apparatus of generalized quantifier theo...

The present paper examines the elicited production of definite determiners, pronominal and reflexive clitics in a group of Italian children diagnosed for Selective Language Impairment. The present results argue against the Surface Hypothesis (Leonard, 1998; Leonard, 1989): Italian singular definite determiners and object pronominal clitics are phonologically identical, they are brief and non sa...

Some constraints on functions from sets and relations to sets are studied. Such constraints are satisfied by anaphoric functions, that is functions denoted by anaphoric determiners. These constraints are generalisations of anaphor conditions known from the study of simpler cases of nominal anaphors. In addition a generalisation of the notion of conservativity as applied to anaphoric functions i...