(1) a. He is a teacher (agent) b. He is a fire-fighter c. This is a grinder (instrument) d. This is a can-opener e. Anger is a great defuser of pent-up emotions (causer) f. Education is a leveller of class differences g. He is a holder of a Visa or Master card (holder) h. He is a bearer of heavy burden i. He is an admirer of the Greek poets (experiencer) j. He is a lover of French cuisine k. He...

This article addresses the interpretation of nominalizations, a particular class of compound nouns whose head noun is derived from a verb and whose modifier is interpreted as an argument of this verb. Any attempt to automatically interpret nominalizations needs to take into account: (a) the selectional constraints imposed by the nominalized compound head, (b) the fact that the relation of the m...

Nominalizations in German Support Verb Constructions Angelika Storrer TU Dortmund ___________________________________________________________________________ Support verb constructions (SVC), such as to take a risk or to set into motion, are composed of a support verb (SV, e.g. take, set) and a predicative noun (PredN, e.g. risk, motion), which is – in most cases – a nominalization of a verb or...

This paper describes a new lexical resource: Ancora-Nom, a Spanish lexicon of deverbal nominalizations. At present, it contains 1,655 lexical entries and 3,094 senses. Each sense has a denotation type associated, and the mapping of nominal complements with arguments and the corresponding theta roles is also annotated. A particular interest of this lexicon is that it has been automatically extra...

This paper presents the methodology and the linguistic criteria followed to enrich the AnCora-Es corpus with the semantic annotation of deverbal nominalizations. The first step was to run two independent automated processes: one for the annotation of denotation types and another one for the annotation of argument structure. Secondly, we manually checked both types of information and measured in...

This paper considers the encoding of processes in five physical sciences research articles. Processes may be encoded as finite verbs, non-finite verb forms or nominalizations. Relational process is most common type for followed by mental second type, with mathematical forming an important subgroup within this type. Mental forms, and material Viewing from point view themselves, have a strong cha...

Recent work on argument taking deverbal zero nouns in English has shown that they are more present language than was previously thought. In this paper the presence and productivity of zero-derived French is investigated. It to determine which can count as nouns, several decisions have be made. This concerns their gender (do both masculine feminine included research?), determination what counts ...

This paper proposes how to extend Pappi, a principles and parameters parser which can currently parse ten languages based on the same core grammar, to handle nominalization constructions in Mandarin Chinese by deliberately revising the periphery file without affecting the other languages. There are four categories of nominalizations: relative clauses with a head noun as an adjunct, relative cla...

Quantified expressions in natural language generally are taken to act like quantifiers in logic, which either range over entities that need to satisfy or not satisfy the predicate in order for the sentence to be true or otherwise are substitutional quantifiers. I will argue that there is a philosophically rather important class of quantified expressions in English that act quite differently, a ...