extended abstract 1. introduction in arabic, words or letters that are considered to be jazm particles affecting a present tense are divided into two general categories: jazm particles affecting a single verb and those affecting two verbs. abbas hassan introduces particles such as iza, kayfa, lou, etc., which bear a conditional connotation, as a third factor for occurrence of jazm (al-nahv al-w...

Particle verbs (e.g., look up) are lexical items for which particle and verb share a single lexical entry. Using event-related brain potentials, we examined working memory and long-term memory involvement in particle-verb processing. Dutch participants read sentences with head verbs that allow zero, two, or more than five particles to occur downstream. Additionally, sentences were presented for...

Whether despite the amount of ink spilled over the verb-particle construction or because of it, there is still a dramatic lack of consensus regarding its syntactic structure. The construction is intriguing because the verb and particle function autonomously in some respects (for example, both (1) and (2) allow the verb-particle combination to be separated, as in (1b) and (2b)), but in other res...

Particles in German have the capacity to introduce new arguments when they combine with a verb. Based on this observation, I argue that the internal arguments of a particle verb are always introduced by the particle. I suggest that this follows from the fact that syntactically, the particle is the head of a maximal projection that occupies the single complement position of the verb; therefore, ...

since the verbs of and have similar use and play an important role in arabic grammar, it was useful to study both and discuss about their functions. following the discussion we found that there is five different functions for :first, it is an imperfect verb, (that give the noun an nominative case and the comment an objective case) arabic grammar experts disagree if it has a verb function or a n...

This paper describes an investigation of some potential features for a statistical approach to inferring the semantics of verb-particle constructions from corpus data. Verb-particles cause particular problems for the computational semantic analysis of language, because their meaning often cannot be derived through the usual compositional methods of analysis. Two novel techniques are presented w...

The placement of the particle before or after an object in the English verb-particle construction is influenced by a variety of factors. We argue that many of them can be subsumed under a single simple principle, motivated by considerations of processing efficiency: to the extent that the domains of syntactic and semantic dependencies can be minimized, processing is facilitated. We use a more p...

In an attempt to estimate the semantic cases for nounparticle-verb triples in the ATR dialogue corpus, the authors propose a measure of distance based on statistics of dependent noun-particle-verb triples. A clustering analysis of all the triples in the corpus was conducted using the measure of distance. Competence of the proposed measure of distance is verified by examination of the distributi...