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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Argument Structure"”.
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The syntax of argument-structure-changing morphology
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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Non-verbal argument structure : evidence from Tagalog
This dissertation examines the syntax and argument structure of non-verbal predicates (focusing primarily on adjectives) in Tagalog. Drawing on evidence from a variety of construction types (including Comparative, Existential, and Ellipsis constructions among others), I argue against the claim that …
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The Representation and Processing of Argument Structure Constructions
… that priming is the result of repeating abstract structure-building procedures. The results support a characterization of passive priming as operating at an intermediate level of generalization in which the function word by is an integral part of the passive construction. These results of the …
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Gender Bias in the Evaluation of Application Letters: The Interplay of Gender Stereotypicality, Argument Structure, and Linguistic Features
Starting from the current European situation, the labor market still seems to be characterized by the unbalanced percentage of women and men in different job sectors. Social psychological literature has addressed this gap in terms of several factors, especially gender stereotypes. To examine which …
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An exploratory study using the predicate-argument structure to develop methodology for measuring semantic similarity of radiology sentences
… processing with the goal of data reduction of unstructured free text. Pertinent to IE is an annotated corpus that frames how IE methods should create a logical expression necessary for processing meaning of text. Most annotation approaches seek to maximize meaning and knowledge by chunking …
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An eye tracking study of sentence reading in aphasia: influences of frequency and context
… demonstrate that more probable words and structures are processed more quickly than those that are less probable. However, not much is known about probabilistic influences on the reading of people with aphasia at the sentence level. Two eye tracking experiments were conducted to establish …
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Introducing arguments
Verbal arguments can be divided into two different types: those that are true arguments of the verb and those that are "additional" in the sense that there is evidence that they do not belong to the basic argument structure of the verb. Theories of argument structure are largely theories about how …
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Event structure and the encoding of arguments : the syntax of the Mandarin and English verb phrase
… the relationship between surface form, syntactic structure, and logical form. A theory of argument structure grounded in independently-motivated syntactic constraints, on the one hand, and the semantic structure of events, on the other hand, is able to account for a wide range of empirical facts …
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Argumentation in an online mathematics course.
… been attempted to improve online discourse and argumentation is to request that students make use of formal argument models such as Toulmin (1958), and to compose their posts and responses to fit particular categories of argument structure. An example of such a study is Jeong and Joung (2007), …
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The Acquisition of Morphosyntactic Properties of English Compounding and Transitivity Alternations by L1 Speakers of Libyan Arabic
… noun compounding (a lexical operation) and argument structure realization (a property at the semantics-syntax interface). The participants were selected at different stages of learning English in the classroom to provide a measure of possible development. Using elicited production and a …
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An analysis of the syntactic and lexical features of an Indian English oral narrative: A Pear Story study.
… use, number agreement and assignment of verb argument structure do not display uniform intragroup distribution. Instead, a relationship is found between nonstandard syntactic features and the sociolinguistic variables of lower levels of exposure to and use of English found within the group. …
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Word structure in Korean
… is to investigate the nature of morphological structure of words in Korean and to examine the interaction of morphological properties with other components of grammar. In order to provide the adequate model for word structure of Korean, I adopt a morphological model which is proposed in recent …
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Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants
… roots, a small number of spatial suffixes, one argument structure changing suffix, and clitics. Aspiration is never contrastive for inflexional suffixes, which occur in word final position. There are three basic allophones of aspirated segments: (i) post-aspirated; (ii) unaspirated, (iii) …
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Integrating Sentence-Structural and Event Information in Early Verb Learning
… younger children, could use aspects of sentence structure to assign different interpretations to novel transitive and intransitive verbs. Persistent negative findings with younger children raised questions about the kind of knowledge young children need about syntax-semantics links in order to …
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Anatomy of an Attitude
… have? (ii) how are they integrated into the argument structure of verbs? (ii) why does their distribution sometimes depend not only on the argument structure, but on the embedding environment as well? Chapter 1 provides a brief summary of my proposal and outlines the assumed framework. …
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With Light Verb Constructions from Syntax to Concepts
… are analyzed as a phenomenon of mismatch in the argument structure. The processing implication of this mismatch are experimentally investigated, using ERPs and a dual task. Data from these experiments point to an increase in working memory. Representational questions are investigated using …
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Clitics and agreement
A phrase structure is developed for Pashto, the most important Indo-Iranian language for which this task remains to be undertaken. New data show that the placement, ordering, and interpretation of second-position clitics may be derived in the syntax by treating the clitics as agreement heads that …
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Acquisition of Causative Directed Manner of Motion by English-speaking Learners of Chinese
… manner of motion verbs share similar syntactic structures in English, for example, John walked Mary to her car., John kicked the ball to the wall., their counterparts in Chinese display distinctively different surface structures. As a result of my dissatisfaction with the initial analysis with …
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Prosody and recursion
… al. (1957), Chomsky and Halle (1968). Syntactic structure are cyclically spelled out and assigned a semantic and phonological interpretation. The cyclic approach is motivated based on data from the prosody of coordinate structures, integrating insights from syntax, combinatorics, and semantics. …
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Minimize Exponence: Economy Effects on a Model of the Morphosyntactic Component of the Grammar
… here falls out of the following facts: 1) arguments are introduced by functional heads; 2) those heads fuse with the root they are projected above, resulting in the node containing both the root and the features of the functional heads; 3) since the root now contains both the root and the …
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