Abstract. Adjuncts contribute to the spatiotemporal anchoring of events and situations described by linguistic expressions, while arguments describe the participants of events and situations. We show how a deterministic parser, based on the recovery of asymmetric relations, enables the identification of adjuncts as possible antecedents to pronouns, whether they are located in the domain of the ...

In this paper, I investigate the interaction of clause-modifying adjuncts, such as because clauses, with negation and the licensing of negative polarity items. I show how an account in which because clauses are adjuncts which can be basegenerated adjoined to either IP or VP explains the ambiguity of examples containing because clauses and negation, and how, in conjunction with the roofing theor...

Besides temporal information explicitly available in verbs and adjuncts, the temporal interpretation of a text also depends on general world knowledge and default assumptions. We will present a theory for describing the relation between, on the one hand, verbs, their tenses and adjuncts and, on the other, the eventualities and periods of time they represent and their relative temporal locations...

Despite the improvements in increasing popularity of endovascular therapy for intracranial aneurysms, there remain a large number of these lesions that currently are not amenable to endovascular therapy. As endovascular therapy becomes more popular, those aneurysms requiring surgical intervention will become increasingly complex. To manage these challenging lesions, neurosurgeons must use all a...

Pain is both a symptom and a sensation. As a symptom, pain signals danger and thus provokes appropriate reflexes. Sher­ rington,2 accordingly, described pain as “the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex.” From a therapeutic viewpoint, pain is a valuable clinical symptom to the practitioner. It also follows that the management of pain— a symptom— must be subject to the same limit...

Negation is known to correlate with changes of word order, agreement, or case marking in the clause. I present data from Skou, a language of north-central New Guinea, which show obliques and adjuncts appearing postverbally in the SOV positive clause and preverbally in negative clauses. Moreover, in addition to these changes in the order of constituents, the grammatical functions assigned in the...

While much work has been done to inform Hierarchical Phrase-Based SMT (Chiang, 2005) models linguistically, the adjunct/argument distinction has generally not been exploited for these models. But as Shieber (2007) points out, capturing this distinction allows to abstract over ‘intervening’ adjuncts, and is thus relevant for (machine) translation in general. We contribute an adjunction-driven ap...

This paper discusses two outstanding issues, dislocated and discontinuous arguments, in the construction of the Penn Chinese PropBank, a corpus that has already been treebanked. It describes the verbspecific approach in our semantic role annotation in which arguments and adjuncts are treated differently in the sense that arguments are assigned labels that are interpretable only within the scope...