One of the most difficult issues within corpora annotation on an underlying syntactic level is the restoration of nodes omitted in the surface shape of the sentence, but present on the “underlying” or “deep” syntactic level. In the present paper we concentrate on such type of nodes which are omitted due to the phenomenon usually called grammatical “control” with regard to their respective anaph...

As the field of generative linguistics has developed, the lexicon has taken on an increasingly important role in the description of both idiosyncratic and regular properties of language. Always viewed as a natural home for exceptions, the lexicon was given relatively little work in the early years of transformational grammar. Then Chomsky proposed in 1970 (Chomsky, 1970) that similarities in th...

We describe how type information can be used to infer grammatical structure. This is in contrast to conventional type inference in programming languages where the roles are reversed, structure determining type. Our work is based on Applicative Universal Grammar (AUG), a linguistic theory that views the formation of phrase in a form that is analogous to function application in a programming lang...

Title of Document: MOVEMENT AND INTERVENTION EFFECTS: EVIDENCE FROM HINDI/URDU. Shiti Malhotra, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Norbert Hornstein Professor Howard Lasnik Department of Linguistics The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the nature of intervention effects seen in various constructions like Wh-scope marking, raising and passivization. In particular, this d...

One of the most challenging aspects of the analysis of resultative constructions in English is the appearance in some cases of what we might call a \nonthematic object," an object that is not a semantic argument of the verb of the clause. This aspect challenges the claim that the grammatical functions of a clause are determined by the lexical properties of the verb of the clause. We need to aba...

This dissertation is a study of rules in Turkish which change grammatical relations or are sensitive to them. It addresses issues of interest to descriptive Turkish grammar and 10 general linguistic theory. Two chapters are devoted to questions about intransitive clauses. Chap' AT 2 examines the claim that impersonal passivizatlon, like personal passivization, involves the advancement of a dire...

One of the main goals of an interpreter is to map the syntactic descriptions found in the sentence into the correct roles that the elements (described by the nominals) play in the situation at hand (described by the verb). For instance, we must be able to state that in 1) The cat ate the mouse the cat is the "eater" and the mouse is the "eaten thing". Of course, if we only talk about roles and ...

A lot of research on humanoid robots or biped robots has been conducted. This research focused on enabling robots to walk very smoothly, similar to the way humans walk, which is highly energy efficient. Motion control using a central pattern generator (CPG) has attracted much attention as an effective control mechanism for biped robots to achieve human-like walking (e.g., Kato & Itoh (2005); Ko...

In this paper, we propose to introduce syntactic classes in a lexicalized dependency formalism. Subcategories of words are organized hierarchically from a general, abstract level (syntactic categories) to a word-specific level (single lexical items). The formalism is parsimonious, and useful for processing. We also sketch a parsing model that uses the hierarchical mixed-grain representation to ...