We present a method for extracting verbal (diathesis) alternations from a valency dictionary, based on comparison of selectional restrictions. The quality of match between selectional restrictions is evaluated according to an entropy-based measure with backing-off facility. We use the proposed method to derive a provisional listing of the range and distribution of verbal alternations in Japanese.

When different images are presented to the two eyes, binocular rivalry can occur - that is, perceptual alternations between the two monocular images (bi-stability) or between more than two percepts comprised of complementary portions of the two images (multi-stability). A recent paper reports important findings about the dynamics of multi-stable alternations in binocular rivalry.

Propositional content is often incomplete but comprehenders appear to adjust meaning and add unarticulated meaning constituents effortlessly. This happens at the propositional level (The baby drank the bottle) but also at the phrasal level (the wooden turtle). In two ERP experiments, combinatorial processing was investigated in container/content alternations and adjective-noun combination trans...

Particularly promising studies on visual awareness exploit a generally used perceptual bistability phenomenon, ‘‘binocular rivalry’’Vin which the two eyes’ images alternately dominateVbecause it can dissociate the visual input from the perceptual output. To successfully study awareness, it is crucial to know the extent to which eye movements alter the input. Although there is convincing evidenc...

Particularly promising studies on visual awareness exploit a generally used perceptual bistability phenomenon, "binocular rivalry"--in which the two eyes' images alternately dominate--because it can dissociate the visual input from the perceptual output. To successfully study awareness, it is crucial to know the extent to which eye movements alter the input. Although there is convincing evidenc...

Competitions of quantified Boolean formula (QBF) solvers are an important driving force for solver development. We consider solvers and benchmarks in prenex conjunctive normal form (PCNF) that participated in the recent QBF competition (QBFEVAL’16) and take a fresh look at the number of solved instances as a measure of solver performance. Rather than ranking solvers by the total number of solve...

This paper proposes an LMT analysis for valence alternations in German of the form NP V NP [P NP ] NP V NP [P NP ], where the indices denote referential identity. These alternations involve direct internal arguments (i.e., objects) and indirect prepositional complements, and characterize among others the behaviour of verbal predicates which participate in the so-called Locative Alternation phen...

We investigate the factors that influence argument order variations in Dutch, focusing on ditransitive verbs. Evidence from grammaticality judgments is complemented with evidence from the distributions of the alternants in corpora of spoken and written Dutch. We find that while the NP/PP alternation is influenced by weight, the direct object shift (DOS) in the dative alternation is bound to cer...