This paper examines issues related to transitivity in Chinese, looking in particular at verb use in non-referential contexts. Four variants of non-referential verb use involving generic bare nouns and postverbal manner adverbs are analyzed. It is suggested that in these cases of non-referential verb use, the verb is first merged with an adverbial complement, and then copied to yield the verb co...

Support-verb constructions (i.e., multiword expressions combining a semantically light verb with a predicative noun) are problematic for standard statistical machine translation systems, because SMT systems cannot distinguish between literal and idiomatic uses of the verb. We work on the German to English translation direction, for which the identification of support-verb constructions is chall...

Abstract The Tangut language is of particular importance to the field Sino­Tibetan Studies, notably because its morphological conservatism, which unexpectedly correlated with a simplification syllable structure, consequence process Miyake (2012) called “compression”. Such conservatism evident in qualities reconstructed, sometimes reflect proto­ Tangut’s ancient derivational processes. Verbs als...

Theoretical accounts of the processing of inflectional morphology make implicit, untested assumptions about the activation of verb semantics from inflected verbs. This research used semantic priming to investigate the extent to which regular and irregular past tense forms activate verb semantics, in comparison to the verb stem. The results show that past tense forms activate verb semantics to t...

In this paper, a German verb resource for verb-centered sentiment inference is introduced and evaluated. Our model specifies verb polarity frames that capture the polarity effects on the fillers of the verb’s arguments given a sentence with that verb frame. Verb signatures and selectional restrictions are also part of the model. An algorithm to apply the verb resource to treebank sentences and ...

This paper describes an investigation of some potential features for a statistical approach to inferring the semantics of verb-particle constructions from corpus data. Verb-particles cause particular problems for the computational semantic analysis of language, because their meaning often cannot be derived through the usual compositional methods of analysis. Two novel techniques are presented w...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Impaired generation of verbs relative to nouns has been reported in Parkinson's disease (PD) and has been associated with the frontal pathophysiology of PD. The aim of the present study was to measure noun/verb generation abilities in PD and to determine whether noun/verb generation is affected by stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN). PATIENTS AND METHODS 8 partici...