In Dutch, verbs are situated at fixed places in the sentence. Those places are called the first and second pole. VP adjuncts seem to function as some kind of pivot place in between these poles. This article investigates, by means of corpus research in the Spoken Dutch Corpus (CGN), which elements are intervening between these VP adjuncts and the second pole. Attention is particularly paid to th...

Illusions of grammaticality, where ungrammatical sentences are misperceived as grammatical (e.g. The key to the cabinets were rusty), have been widely studied during language comprehension. Such illusions influential in debate surrounding so-called representational and retrieval-based accounts linguistic dependency resolution. Whether analogous plausibility occur at level semantic interpretatio...

Abstract Japanese has a deletion operation, called argument ellipsis, that targets arguments (Oku in A theory of selection and reconstruction the minimalist program, 1998). The operation does not apply to adjuncts, thus, adjuncts are unelidable. Funakoshi (J East Asian Linguist 25(2):113–42, 2016), following footsteps Otani Whitman (Linguist Inquiry 22:345–58, 1991), argues can be elided when V...

Enriching statistical models with linguistic knowledge has been a major concern in Machine Translation (MT). In monolingual data, adjuncts are optional constituents contributing secondarily to the meaning of a sentence. One can therefore hypothesize that this secondary status is preserved in translation, and thus that adjuncts may align consistently with their adjunct translations, suggesting t...

Tonsillectomy is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in children. In the management of the pediatric airway for general anesthesia different adjuncts can be used such as endotracheal tube (ETT) and laryngeal mask airway (LMA). There are no agreed national guidelines or consensus in the United Kingdom (UK) for the selection of airway adjuncts in pediatric tonsillectomy, theref...

The distinction between arguments and adjuncts is fundamental to most linguistic theories, yet the distinction is not always clear. In addition to clear arguments and clear adjuncts, there are a number of unclear, in-between cases. These cases include passive agents, benefactives, directionals, and a number of other types of phrases. We argue that the in-between status of the unclear cases can ...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a finite-state syntactic grammar of Basque that has been used with the objective of extracting information about verb subcategorization instances from newspaper texts. After a partial parser has built basic syntactic units such as noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and sentential complements, a finite-state parser performs syntactic disambi...