The framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) boasts many elegant analyses of syntactic and semantic phenomena. However, little emphasis to date has been placed on syntactic structures when influenced by semantic or pragmatic considerations, such as that of theme and rheme in languages like Russian. Clearly, Russian grammar follows other principles, but the role of contextual inf...

English main-clause wh-questions form complementiser phrases with wh-words preposed to spec-C position. This is because English wh-words, as verb-complements originally, are strong enough to trigger wh-movement and auxiliary inversion. Persian EFL learners encounter an over-differentiation problem regarding the acquisition of auxiliary inversion rule in English standard questions. Once they hav...

In this paper, we report on some acoustic data suggesting the existence of the Accentual Phrase (AP) in Neapolitan Italian. In late narrow focus utterances in which intonation modality was varied, there was a difference in the shape and slope of the interaccentual region linking the H target of the prenuclear rise with the L target of the following nuclear rise. We hypothesized that such differ...

this paper provides a critical analysis of heidegger’s brief remarks in his “letter on humanism” in which he links ethics to ethos and ultimately to our relation to time and history. central to this analysis is the phrase of heraclitus, ēthos anthrōpōi daimōn, from which heidegger claims that human living (ethos) is inseparable from the event of appropriation (ereignis) which generates our hist...

Two annotations schemes for presenting the parsed structures are prevalent viz. the constituency structure and the dependency structure. While the constituency trees mark the relations due to positions, the dependency relations mark the semantic dependencies. Free word order languages like Sanskrit pose more problems for constituency parses since the elements within a phrase are dislocated. In ...