case Abstract case is defined using the two given relational features. These are assigned to the ‘thematic roles’ according to their relative position in the semantic form. Once [+HR] and [+LR] have been assigned, the rest can be assigned implicationally. (29) show: λz λy λx [x CAUSE [CAN [y SEE z]]] –HR –HR +HR +LR –LR –LR With the highest and lowest roles identified, all other roles must be m...

We show that naı̈ve modeling of morphosyntactic agreement in a Constituency-Based (CB) statistical parsing model is worse than none, whereas a linguistically adequate way of modeling inflectional morphology in CB parsing leads to improved performance. In particular, we show that an extension of the Relational-Realizational (RR) model that incorporates agreement features is superior to CB models ...

Narrative production experiments reveal systematic crosslinguistic differences in the preferred ratio of overt to possible argumental NPs (called here the REFERENTIAL DENSITY value) between three pro-drop languages of the Himalayas (Belhare, Maithili, Nepali). These differences can be accounted for by the degree to which morphosyntactic features of NPs, especially case features, are relevant fo...

This dissertation is a cross-linguistic investigation into the structure and interpretation of imperatives and related constructions. We identify universal morphosyntactic principles of imperatives and explain variations in the syntax of imperatives as a consequence of the interaction between the universal principles and the morphosyntactic system of a particular language. Based on these conclu...

The JOS morphosyntactic resources for Slovene consist of the specifications, lexicon, and two corpora: jos100k, a 100,000 word balanced monolingual sampled corpus annotated with hand validated morphosyntactic descriptions (MSDs) and lemmas, and jos1M, the 1 million word partially hand validated corpus. The two corpora have been sampled from the 600M word Slovene reference corpus FidaPLUS. The J...