This work describes how we used AnCora-Nom, a Spanish nominalization lexicon, to extend NomLex-PT, a lexical resource for Portuguese, originally based on the English NomLex lexicon and fully integrated to OpenWordNet-PT, our freely available Portuguese WordNet. The complete Spanish lexicon, which contains 1,655 entries, was translated to Portuguese and then compared to our previous data. Furthe...

Many German nominalizations with the affix -ung are sortally ambiguous. Within a sentence, lexico-semantic and/or syntactic phenomena may support disambiguation. The sortal interpretation of a nominalization may vary depending on the underlying syntactic analysis of one and the same, syntactically ambiguous sentence. We model the process of sortal disambiguation as a constraint-based incrementa...

Systemic functional grammar constructs a grammar for the purpose of text analysis to investigate how grammar is used as a means of making meaning. Grammatical metaphor is one of the language phenomena introduced by Halliday (2004) in the framework of functional grammar. The present work focuses on the application of Halliday’s metafunctional framework in health texts of English newspapers. The ...

In his 1970 paper ‘Remarks on nominalization’, Noam Chomsky provided several arguments for the lexicalist hypothesis, namely the idea that nouns like refusal, rejection, growth, and so on are nouns throughout the entire syntactic derivation. Tom Roeper’s paper ‘Chomsky’s Remarks and the transformationalist hypothesis’ challenges the lexicalist hypothesis, arguing that such nouns are syntactical...

The purpose of this research is to present the application of grammatical metaphor (nominalization) and some other formal English features in such written texts as formal reports or research papers that can lead to the formation of computer-assisted assessment. The study begins by presenting the definition of a formal report as a written text and categorizing them as more complex than the oral ...