Impersonalization is a communicative peculiarity of courtroom discourse and the modal verb δεῖ one linguistic devices that encode it in Greek. Δεῖ expresses deontic modality, which includes directive value for expression orders other speech acts. This paper offers study Lysias’ forensic speeches.

A fter perusing the articles and guest editors’ introduction for this issue on extreme data, I googled “extreme,” and hundreds of links bubbled up—from computing, coupons, data, and fatigue, to science, scientists and science fun, to “extreme x” (don’t ask). I then concluded that “extreme” has become an unreliable buzzword, used somewhat indiscriminately for its shock value. That said, the fact...

In this paper I investigate the alternation between VO and OV word order in spoken North Sami, based on data from LIA Sápmi – Sámegiela hállangiellakorpus. My results show that general is most frequent order. However, also find many instances of SAuxOV my material, particularly sentences with periphrastic verb forms where main infinitive (that is, modal constructions) object a pronoun. addition...

Romanian auxiliary verbs exhibit certain peculiar properties that set them aside from other Romance counterparts. It will be suggested that the di erences between Romanian auxiliaries and French and Italian auxiliaries can be accounted for in terms of di erent syntactic structures. While in French and in Italian the auxiliary verb, the non nite one and the complements combine in a at structure,...

This paper describes the techniques used for our system participating in the Document Understanding Conference 2006. We describe a new system, built from scratch, that focuses primarily on collecting models of possible answers for each question from the Internet, and applying those models to select the answer sentences from the documents in the collection. The system performed averagely in the ...

is paper investigates existing proposals for the apparent correlation between modal flavour and temporal orientation, through the lens of attitude verbs. Work thus far has focussed on modal auxiliaries, but attitude verbs with modal-quantificational analyses can shed new light on understanding the temporal orientation of modals elements. Landau (2000) notes that complements of partial control a...

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection is an essential task to understand human-centric images from a fine-grained perspective. Although end-to-end HOI models thrive, their paradigm of parallel human/object and verb class prediction loses two-stage methods' merit: object-guided hierarchy. The object in one triplet gives direct clues the be predicted. In this paper, we aim boost with statistic...

Machine Translation from German into Russian did not gain the attention it deserves so far. Especially such typical Russian phenomena like the aspect of verbs complicate the translation process. The known MT approaches do not deal with such problems in a satisfactory way. To overcome this lack, we started the German.Russian translation experiment VIRTEX. We focussed our attention on the crucial...