The complement of transitive intensional verbs, like any nonreferential complement, can be replaced by a ‘special quantifier’ or ‘special pronoun’ such as something, the same thing, or what. In previous work on predicative complements and that-clauses I argued that special quantifiers and pronouns introduce entities that would not have occurred in the semantic structure of the sentence without ...

No event reading Event reading No agent-oriented modifiers Agent-oriented modifiers Subjects are possessives subjects are arguments by phrases are non-arguments by phrases are arguments No implicit argument control Implicit argument control No aspectual modifiers Aspectual modifiers Modifiers like frequent, constant only with plural Modifiers like frequent, constant appear with singular May be ...

A computational approach to the semantic interpretation of nominalizations is described. Interpretation of nominalizations involves three tasks: deciding whether the nominalization is being used in a verbal or non-verbal sense; disambiguating the nominalized verb when a verbal sense is used; and determining the fillers of the thematic roles of the verbal concept or predicate of the nominalizati...

This research aims at determining the similarities, dissimilarities, and possible learning difficulties faced by students English Indonesian nominalization as well recommendations to TEFL. The qualitative design was applied. documentation technique used collect data. To analyze data, researchers a descriptive analysis. results showed that there were three similarities four dissimilarities betwe...

This paper presents the 2006 participation of the PUCRS-PLN Group in CLEF Monolingual Ad Hoc Task for Portuguese. We participated with the TR+ Model based on nominalization, binary lexical relations (BLR), Boolean queries, and the evidence concept. Our alternative strategy for lexical normalization, the nominalization, is the transformation of a word (adjective, verb, or adverb) into a semantic...