Semantic research is generally divided into lexical semantics (LS) and compositional semantics (CS). LS concentrates on the relation between a semantic functor and its arguments, be it in terms of semantic selectional restrictions or in terms of linking, i.e., in terms of the relation between syntactic complements and semantic argument slots. CS is concerned with the way the semantic contributi...

At the moment there is no theory for free relative clauses in German in the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) (Pollard and Sag, 1994). From GB literature on the subject it is known that free relative clauses behave partly like noun phrases. They can fill argument positions of verbs. And although they are finite sentences, they are serialized like noun phrases in the Germa...

The paper describes an application-oriented system that corrects agreement errors. In order to correct a sentence with such errors, an extended morphological structure is created which contains various grammatical forms of the words used in the sentence. For this structure the bottom-up parsing is performed, and syntactic structures are found that contain minimal number of changes in comparison...

With normal intonation, (4a) is ungrammatical and (4b) is unambiguous with the adverbial around midnight construed only with the matrix clause. However, Ross (1986: 180–181) states that ‘[i]f the preposed adverbials bear heavy stress, [...,] [(4a)] becomes grammatical, and [(4b)] becomes ambiguous, for the adverbial can modify the lower verb as well as the main verb’. If Ross’ observation is co...

The lexical items preceding the nite verb in German V2 clauses have traditionally been analyzed as a fronted constituent that forms part of an unbounded dependency construction. We examine this hypothesis and, based on certain properties of unbounded dependencies, we conclude that the initial constituent in V2 clauses can be licensed by two distinct processes: Clause-bound adjunction of adverbi...

A new strategy for discovering action rules (or interventions) is presented in this paper. The current methods [14], [12], [8] require to discover classification rules before any action rule can be constructed from them. Several definitions of action rules [8], [13], [9], [3] have been proposed. They differ in the generality of their classification parts but they are always constructed from cer...

Much research about on-line sentence comprehension focuses on the contributions of individual lexical items, with specific interest in verbs. One aspect of sentence meaning that has been claimed to be rooted in verb representation is event structure. There is a growing body of evidence supporting the claim that the verb is not the sole contributor of event structure, but that the syntactic cons...

A system is proposed here for assigning a derived P-marker to a given transformed sentence and obtaining the corresponding base P-marker at the same time. Rules of analytical phrase-structure grammar for such a system have associated with them i~formation pertaining to the transformational histories of their own derivation. When a phrase-structure analysis of the sentence is obtained, the set o...