Across languages, aspectual verbs commonly select for a clausal complement, and they often exhibit transparency to normally clause-bound phenomena, known as ‘restructuring’ behaviors. Language families in which aspectual verbs exhibit restructuring behaviors include Romance (e.g. Aissen and Perlmutter 1976, 1983, Rizzi 1982, Burzio 1986, Cinque 1999, 2003, 2004), Germanic (e.g. Wurmbrand 2001),...

Since the discussion of the competence{performance dichotomy in Chomsky (1965), it has been commonly assumed that the problem of characterizing an individual's grammatical knowledge is distinct from that of characterizing how and whether a speaker/hearer builds grammatical representations during language production/comprehension. A linguist presented with data concerning some facet of language ...

level of representation and permits grammaticality—as in usual LFG—to bedetermined on the phrasal and functional level of representation.A final note about the basic formal properties of the approaches. For traditional LFGgrammars (satisfying the Nonbranching Dominance Condition) the parsing problem isdecidable, since a grammar can assign to a string only a finite number of vali...

Professor Gunji's book continues the tradition of explicitness in linguistic description so well demonstrated by Gazdar, Klein, Pullum, and Sag (1985) (GKPS). In theoretical orientation, too, there is a heavy debt to the latter. The details, however, show a certain trend towards the lexicalist position exemplified in theories such as head-driven phrase-structure grammar (Pollard and Sag 1987), ...

We describe an advanced text processing system for information retrieval from natural language document collections. We use both syntactic processing as well as statistical term clustering to obtain a representation of documents which would be more accurate than those obtained with more traditional key-word methods. A reliable top-down parser has been developed that allows for fast processing o...

Manning, C.D. and Sag, I. A. 1998 Argument Structure, Valence, and Binding Nordic Journal of Linguistics This paper develops within HPSG a model of grammar with two syntactic levels, valence lists and argument structure, at which sentences may have di erent representations: syntactically ergative and Western Austronesian languages are distinctive by allowing di erent prominence orderings betwee...

Van der Velde & de Kamps’ model encodes complex word-to-word relations in sentences, but does not encode the hierarchical constituent structure of sentences, a fundamental property of most accounts of sentence structure. We summarize what is at stake, and suggest two ways of incorporating constituency into the model. We are impressed by van der Velde & de Kamps’ attempt to take seriously the ch...

Corpus Pattern Analysis (CPA) [1], coined and implemented by Hanks as the Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (PDEV) [2], appears to be the only deliberate and consistent implementation of Sinclair’s concept of Lexical Item [3]. In his theoretical inquiries [4] Hanks hypothesizes that the pattern repository produced by CPA can also support the word sense disambiguation task. Although more than ...

Parsli is a finite-state (FS) parser which can be tailored to the lexicon, syntax, and semantics of a particular application using a hand-editable declarative lexicon. The lexicon is defined in terms of a lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar, which is subsequently mapped to a FS representation. This approach gives the application designer better and easier control over the natural language unders...

It seems a fact that movement dependencies come in two flavours: ”A” and ”A-bar”. Over the years, a number of apparently independent properties have been shown to cluster together around this distinction. However, the basic structural property relating these two kinds of movement, the ban on improper movement (‘once you go bar, you never go back’), has never been given a satisfactory explanatio...