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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Thematic roles"”.
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Split intransitivity: Thematic roles, case and agreement
… in the minimalist literature as `vP' or the `thematic domain'. Nominal arguments are merged in the specifiers of one or more of these heads and receive their thematic interpretations on the basis of their merged positions. Evidence for a model of thematic roles and syntactic argument structure …
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How some so-called "thematic roles" that select animate arguments are generated, and how these roles inform control
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1994.
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The Tukang Besi language of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
… of its case. Yet others are dependent on the thematic roles that an argument bears, irrespective of its pragmatic case or syntactic role. The data have been presented in a loose structuralist framework as much as possible, in order to avoid prejudging the linguistic facts in favour of one or …
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The Tukang Besi language of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
… of its case. Yet others are dependent on the thematic roles that an argument bears, irrespective of its pragmatic case or syntactic role. The data have been presented in a loose structuralist framework as much as possible, in order to avoid prejudging the linguistic facts in favour of one or …
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Paul Hindemith's use of the trumpet in the Kammermusik works
… are generally identified as either thematic or supportive on the basis of an examination of the musical setting in which the trumpet or cornet is found. Thematic roles are further distinguished, where appropriate, as either primary or secondary. Supportive responsibilities are …
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Syntax-driven argument identification and multi-argument classification for semantic role labeling
… then label those arguments with appropriate thematic roles. Existing systems for semantic role labeling use machine learning methods to assign roles one-at-a-time to candidate arguments. There are several drawbacks to this general approach. First, more than one candidate can be assigned the …
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Interference control in language processing: the effects of age and working memory
… an integrated representation of ideas (e.g., thematic roles assignment). In contrast, situation understanding or simulation of language that draws on world knowledge and experience has been argued to be obligatory and relatively effortless, thus demonstrating relative resilience in the face of …
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The neurofunctional correlates of sentence processing: focus on difficulties of morphosyntactic processing and thematic role assignment in aphasia
… neural correlates of the mechanisms involved in thematic role assignment and in the processing of morphosyntactic features. This is because both sets of mechanisms are critical for sentence interpretation both in comprehension and in production. The first step of the project consisted of a …
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Syntactic distribution of English denominal verbs
… verb’s meaning involves using the canonical thematic role the parent noun plays to choose what type of event structure it should be slotted into. This predicts that the nominal role interpretation should constrain what type of argument structures the corresponding denominal verb can occur in. …
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Connecting input to comprehension: First language acquisition of active transitives and suffixal passives by Korean-speaking preschool children
… of association between individual markers and thematic roles in constructional patterns expressing a transitive event was asymmetric: the nominative case marker was a very strong cue for agenthood (and vice versa), the accusative case marker was a moderately good cue for themehood (and vice …
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Sustainable museums: a new paradigm for the 21st century from the perspective of museum professionals and visitors
… (1) Identifying 15 key sustainability thematic roles of the museums The research complements the empirical literature on sustainable museums and contributes to broadening the theoretical background. The mission of museums in this context has not been examined before. The research has …
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Comprehension of Spanish relative and passive clauses by early bilinguals and second language learners
… a reanalysis of the sentence to organize the thematic roles. To comprehend adjectival/stative passives with participles, learners had to realize that a description of a state or final result followed the copula estar. To comprehend verbal passive clauses, learners had to know that the first …