Recently there has been much work in surface constraint-based frameworks on complex predicate constructions (causative and light verb constructions), that are found in Romance and other languages. Manning et al. forthcoming). The enthusiasm for this area comes from the fact that these constructions contradict certain of the assumptions of early work in surface constraint-based frameworks. Never...

This paper presents the automatic extraction of Complex Predicates (CPs) in Bengali with a special focus on compound verbs (Verb + Verb) and conjunct verbs (Noun /Adjective + Verb). The lexical patterns of compound and conjunct verbs are extracted based on the information of shallow morphology and available seed lists of verbs. Lexical scopes of compound and conjunct verbs in consecutive sequen...

Natural languages are typically characterized by a large area where grammar and lexicon overlap. Complex predicates with light verbs represent a typical language phenomenon at the lexicongrammar interface. Their theoretically adequate representation thus requires a close interplay between the lexicon and the grammar. In this paper, we introduce a formal model for the lexicographic description o...

Wordnets, which are repositories of lexical semantic knowledge containing semantically linked synsets and lexically linked words, are indispensable for work on computational linguistics and natural language processing. While building wordnets for Hindi and Marathi, two major IndoEuropean languages, we observed that the verb hierarchy in the Princeton Wordnet was rather shallow. We set to constr...

RECENT STUDIES ON COMPLEX PREDICATES, SUCH AS BAKER’S (1988) THEORY OF INCORPORATION AND LI’S (1990) FEATURE PERCOLATION ACCOUNT, INVOLVE SYNTACTIC MANIPULATIONS BASED ON HEADED STRUCTURES. THIS PAPER PROPOSES A RADICALLY DIFFERENT APPROACH WHERE COMPLEX PREDICATE FORMATION IS RESOLVED MORPHOLEXICALLY WITH MAPPING BASED ON PROTOTYPICAL ARGUMENT TEMPLATES. OUR STUDY GIVES A MORE SATISFACTORY ACC...

I provide a unified account of a constraint on adjunction observed in three complex predicate constructions in Japanese: (i) restructuring motion verb constructions, (ii) light verb constructions, (iii) infinitives with wasure‘forget’. It is shown that adjunction (i.e. adverbial modification, adjectival modification, and quantifier raising) in the lower projections are impossible in these const...

The performance of the full table scan is critical for the overall performance of column-store database systems such as the SAP HANA database. Compressing the underlying column data format is both an advantage and a challenge, because it reduces the data volume involved in a scan on one hand and introduces the need for decompression during the scan on the other hand. In previous work [26] we ha...

Complex predicates raise the question of how to encode them in computational lexicons. Theircomputational implementation in South Asian languages is in its infancy. This paper examinesin detail the variety of complex predicates in Telugu revealing the syntactic process of theircomposition and the constraints on their formation. The framework used is First Phase Syntax(Ramcha...