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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Subcategorization"”.
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The Acquisition of English Sentential Complementation by Adult Speakers of Finnish
… which were classified into thirteen subcategorization categories and six syntactic categories. There were three administrations of the test over a nine-month period.
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Minimize Exponence: Economy Effects on a Model of the Morphosyntactic Component of the Grammar
… MINIMIZE EXPONENCE allows for a new account of subcategorization. The model of subcategorization presented 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 …
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Semi-Lexical Heads in Czech Modal Structures
… of modal verbs in Czech in respect of their subcategorization frame in the Lexicon and semantic properties (‘modal meaning’). It also attempts to clarify the confusion regarding modal verbs and modality in traditional Czech grammars by shifting the attention from pragmatics to an approach …
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"Russian Propaganda and Subjectivity Positions Following the 2022 Escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War"
… decoding positions with further, more nuanced, subcategorization. The goal of this dissertation is to examine how the different subjectivities are produced and enacted in response to the state propaganda. I aim to contribute further to the literature discussing the influence of propaganda by …
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Unsupervised syntactic category learning from child-directed speech
… adverbs, subjects vs. objects, and verbs by subcategorization frame. The main barrier standing between these methods and human-like categorization is the inability to deal with the ambiguity that is omnipresent in natural language and poses an important problem for future models of syntactic …
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Form and function of expressive morphology: a case study of Russian
… criteria (gender/class change, category change, subcategorization). An important byproduct of this analysis is that I show how grammatical gender of an expressive form can be predicted from its inflectional class (combined with animacy and natural gender of the base). One implication of this …
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Parsing Routines in Syntactic Processing: The Effect of Expected Word Order on Sentence Comprehension
… information is not read by the parser but subcategorization information is.</p> <p>It was concluded that the results of Experiments 1 and 2 support the SVO Expectancy Hypothesis. It was suggested that future research focus on the marking system and the revision process.</p>
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Integrating heterogeneous data into electronic medical record analysis
… healthcare applications, such as patient subcategorization, survival analysis, and visualization, I used external networks of domain knowledge consisting of drug-symptom relationships, protein-protein interactions, and genetic information to enhance patient records. I found that this …
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Automatic syntactic analysis of learner English
… specific syntactic constructs such as subcategorization frames (SCFs). SCFs have attracted much research attention as they provide unique insight into the interplay between lexical and structural information. An automatic SCF identification system adapted for learner language is needed …
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The language of emotions in Dalabon (northern Australia)
… Namely, the Dalabon preference for some subcategorization patterns, in particular experiencer subjects and body-part possessor raising, could play a constraining role with respect to emotion metaphors.
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The language of emotions in Dalabon (northern Australia)
… Namely, the Dalabon preference for some subcategorization patterns, in particular experiencer subjects and body-part possessor raising, could play a constraining role with respect to emotion metaphors.
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The effects of verb bias, context and tasks on mandarin Chinese reflexives
… The study focused on how factors like verb subcategorization (i.e. verb biases, properties that a verb tends to take a direct object more than a sentential complement or vice versa) or context information influence such interpretation by using off-line and on-line reading times and …