a growing number of recent studies on verbal meaning have demonstrated that positing a direct mapping between (lexical/logical) semantics and syntax with respect to event structure can account for numerous linguistic phenomena. in this article, we demonstrate that certain facts in persian can only be explained by decomposing verbs into smaller syntactic pieces that reflect subparts of a complex...

2 Syntax, Semantics, & Machines for Arithmetic 4 2.1 Modelling Syntax with Inductive Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Modelling Syntax with Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Natural Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.4 Reduction Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ...

While there has been considerable research on both structural annotation (such as the Penn Treebank (Taylor et al., 2003) or the Kyoto Corpus (Kurohashi and Nagao, 2003)) and semantic annotation (e.g. Senseval: Kilgariff and Rosenzweig, 2000; Shirai, 2002), there are almost no corpora that combine both. This makes it difficult to carry out research on the interaction between syntax and semantic...

Recent work on the syntax-semantics interface (see e.g. (Dalrymple et al., 1994)) uses a fragment of linear logic as a 'glue language' for assembling meanings compositionally. This paper presents a glue language account of how negative polarity items (e.g. ever, any) get licensed within the scope of negative or downward-entailing contexts (Ladusaw, 1979), e.g. Nobody ever left. This treatment o...

Preverbs are positionally-delimited grammatical forms that remain understudied. We examine their semantic classes in West Benue Congo (WBC) and its minor language Emai, which until recently was undocumented. Preverb Emai display a subset of categories identified Dixon (1991, 2006, 2010) Nuyts (2001, 2005, 2016). There eight for 30 odd preverb forms. They apportioned according to qualitative or ...