This paper provides sound and complete logical systems for several fragments of English which go beyond syllogistic logic in that they use verbs as well as other limited syntactic material: universally and existentially quantified noun phrases, building on the work of Nishihara, Morita, and Iwata [7]; complemented noun phrases, following our [6]; and noun phrases which might contain relative cl...

Sophisticated senator and legislative onion. Whether or not you have ever heard of these things, we all have some intuition that one of them makes much less sense than the other. In this paper, we introduce a large dataset of human judgments about novel adjective-noun phrases. We use these data to test an approach to semantic deviance based on phrase representations derived with compositional d...

Phrases consist of various parts in the Persian and Russian languages. The article presents semantics substantive prepositional phrases with a dependent noun, which are expressed by Ezāfe phrases, “noun + adjective” structure. empirical factual basis study was Russian-Persian dictionaries G. A. Voskanyan, I. K. Ovchinnikova, S. D. Klevtsova dictionary “Sokhan”, edited H. Anvari. scientific nove...

Seeking to develop the first satisfying universal definition of basic grammatical units of the major syntactic categories such as "noun," "verb," and "adjective" and of the principal grammatical relations, "subject," "object," and "oblique," William Croft employs the methods of cross-linguistic or typological analysis and cognitive linguistics. Drawing evidence from a wide variety of languages,...

Due to recent development in the area of computational formalisms for linguistic representation, the task of designing a parser for a speciied natural language is now shifted to the problem of designing its grammar in certain formal ways. This paper describes the results of a project whose aim was to design a formal grammar for modern Hebrew. Such a formal grammar has never been developed befor...

Recent advances in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) offer a significant new approach to studying semantic representations in humans by making it possible to directly observe brain activity while people comprehend words and sentences. In this study, we investigate how humans comprehend adjective-noun phrases (e.g. strong dog) while their neural activity is recorded. Classification an...

This paper provides a formal semantic characterization of specificational copular clauses using the theory of noun phrase interpretation developed by Partee (1987). It is argued that specificational clauses involve an unusual alignment of a predicative noun phrase with the subject position. This leads to the prediction that only noun phrases capable of denoting predicates can occur in this posi...

Children's ability to interpret color adjective noun phrases (e.g., red butterfly) as contrastive was examined in an eyetracking study with 6-year-old Russian children. Pitch accent placement (on the adjective red, or on the noun butterfly) was compared within a visual context containing two red referents (a butterfly and a fox) when only one of them had a contrast member (a purple butterfly) o...

The current investigates the parsing process and its utilization of various linguistic information to resolve dependencies in Korean double relative clauses. While previous research has revealed evidence interference effects a distractor during dependency formations, involving formations by itself not been thoroughly explored. In light this, we aimed explore how grammatical-role parallelism mod...

This experimental study examined the effectiveness of using focused and unfocused tasks on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ performance in producing noun, adjective, and adverb clauses. In addition,the aim of this study was to explore the effects of form-focused instruction and the feedback students received from their teacher after doing focused grammar tasks. Data consisted of the scores of...