Superlative expressions (such as “the tallest boy”) single out entities by comparing them to others with respect to a set of properties. Therefore, a proper semantics for a superlative expression requires a correct computation of the comparison set. In most of the cases, this can be done in a compositional fashion (leaving contextual influences aside). When superlative adjectives occur in preno...

On Computing Subcategorization Frames of French Deverbal Nouns (Case of Genitive) Fine dependency analysis needs exact information on the subcategoriziation frames of lexical units. These frames being well studied for the verbs, we are interested in this paper by the case of the noun deverbals. Our main goal is to calculate the subcategoriziation frame of deverbals in French from that of the so...

This paper focuses on two disparate aspects of German syntax from the perspective of parallel grammar development. As part of a cooperative project, we present an innovative approach to auxiliaries and multiple genitive NPs in German. The LFG-based implementation presented here avoids unnessary structural complexity in the representation of auxiliaries by challenging the traditional analysis of...

This paper is about the development of semi-automatic methods to disambiguate genitive attributes of German deverbal nouns. Human listeners use structural and semantic clues to disambiguate these genitives — tools for automatic semantic text analysis, information extraction and information retrieval need to mimic this process by extracting clues from corpus data. I present morphosyntactic and l...

In this paper, we have tried to outline the status of preposition ZA from aspect grammaticalization, which it is subjected a considerable extent in Prizren-Timok and Kosovo-Resava dialects, its polyfunctionality confirmed by numerous examples these Serbian vernaculars. However, must be borne mind that, contrast OD, they were process so-called areal other dialects - even colloquial literary lang...

Abstract In several ancient and modern Indo-European languages, the partitive-genitive may be used in place of accusative to encode second argument two-place verbs. Ancient Greek two types object encoding can alternate with change-of-state verbs, alternation being viewed as connected degrees patient affectedness: encodes partially affected objects. Alternation also extends experiential which ar...

The paper presents the use of preposition za (?for?) in vernacular Eras from Eastern Bosnia, region delimited by rivers Drinjaca, Biostica and Krivaja, slopes Konjuh Romanija. enters constructions with accusative, instrumental genitive. content ample corpus data obtained listening to over 500 hours recorded speech indicated area points its closeness equivalence state idioms Herzegovina- Krajina...