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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"event structure"”.
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The event structure of light verbs
… investigates how light verbs contribute to eventstructure across three, typologically different languages: English, Hindi-Urdu, and Korean. I first show that light verbs across the three languages vary in their structural position and function. English light verbs take and give remain low in …
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Code generation for few-shot event structure prediction
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Verbs of pure change of state in English: projection, constructions and event structure
… to satisfactorily explain the semantics of those structures that extend beyond the basic meaning of the verb, like resultative constructions or other expressions of event composition. Thus, this dissertation can be considered as a contribution to the development of the system of lexical …
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Event structure and the encoding of arguments : the syntax of the Mandarin and English verb phrase
… not only contributes to our understanding of how events are syntactically represented, but also explicates interactions at the syntax-semantics interface, clarifying the relationship between surface form, syntactic structure, and logical form. A theory of argument structure grounded in …
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Aspekte des Dativs : Zur Relation zwischen der Dativ-DP und der Ereignisstruktur der Verben in ditransitiven Konstruktionen im Deutschen
… exceptions): either as arguments of a layered VP-structure, adjuncts or arguments of applicative heads. Even their case is often considered to be licensed in the same way. There are suggestions that these dative DPs bear either structural, oblique or inherent case.Within cognitive and construction …
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Formal analysis of a five element psychophysiological structure
… analysis of a five-element psychophysiological structure was performed using an interval bisection task. Within a ten second interval, records were obtained of lateral eye movements and the bisection response on each of ten trials. The formal analysis indicated that: 1. The variables of …
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Controller synthesis for reactive systems in distributed, real-time and hybrid settings
… that the monadic second order theory of the event structure unfolding of every system of connectedly communicating processes (CCP) is decidable. With this, we show that the distributed controller synthesis problem with CCPs is decidable for robust linear time specifications. And if …
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Detection of separable predicates on series-parallel systems
… of the state lattice and the complexity of the event structure. At the heart of this relation is a new structure: the communication graph. We show that the communication graph gives a suitable level of abstraction to deal with the predicate detection problem.
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Biomimetic Agent-Based Modeling in Musical Interface Design: Ecological Dynamics, Care, and Constraint in a Physarum-Inspired Musical Instrument
… interfaces whose behavioral logic shapes timbre, event structure, and the performer-instrument relationship. While much of the existing discourse in computer music addresses models' role in sound generation, an equally important question concerns their role in structuring performer interaction. …
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Syntactic distribution of English denominal verbs
… 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. Specifically, locative denominal verbs should show …
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Utilization and Synthesis of Symbolic World Models for Safe, Generalizable, and Efficient Action
… language. It showcases how we can exploit the event structure in the world model to enable more efficient planning. In the final project, PWM, I will explore learning a world model directly from observations and actions gathered from interacting with an environment. We combine symbolic and …
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Comparing University Entomology Outreach Events While Examining Public Views of Arthropods and Pesticides
Hokie BugFest is an annual free event designed by the Entomology Department at Virginia Tech to translate the importance of entomology to the public. The event has grown from 2,000 attendees in 2011 to over 8,000 attendees in 2017. Entomology faculty, staff, graduate students and alumni partner …
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Datives at large
… and of the functional heads that construct the event structure. Dative arguments are not direct arguments of the verb; they are, like subjects, licensed syntactically and semantically by a specialized head. This argument introducing head, the Applicative, licenses the dative DP as its specifier …
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EventMinder : a personal calendar assistant that understands events
… understand calendar entries. This limitation prevents them from offering the range of assistance that can be provided by a human personal assistant. Understanding calendar entries is a difficult problem because it involves integrating many types of knowledge: commonsense knowledge, about common …
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The 'Who' and 'Where' of Events: Infants' Processing of Figures and Grounds in Events
… children must first dissect and process dynamic event components, and then uncover how the particular language they are learning encodes these constructs. Building on a new area of research, this dissertation investigated two event components, figure (i.e., the moving entity) and ground (i.e., …
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Les verbes de mouvement et l’expression du lieu en kirundi (bantou, JD62) : une étude linguistique basée sur un corpus
… cas échéant, si elles suffissent pour définir la structure événementielle de cette catégorie de verbes ou s’il est nécessaire de formuler des caractéristiques additionnelles. Dans le but d’approfondir notre connaissance de la façon dont est encodé le Repère dans l’expression du mouvement, la thèse …
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The spatiotemporal dynamics of visual attention during real-world event perception
Everyday event perception requires us to perceive a nearly constant stream of dynamic information. Although we perceive these events as being continuous, there is ample evidence that we “chunk” our experiences into manageable bits (Zacks & Swallow, 2007). These chunks can occur at fine and coarse …
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Dative arguments and abstract Case in Greek
… heights of attachment are derivable from the event structure of the predicate. This theory of Appl attachment, coupled with a thematic hierarchy that distinguishes goals from non-goals (and experiencers) with respect to their base position derives the full typology of dative arguments. In …
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Language-Mediated Event Representations
When understanding narrative events we must keep track of a number of (often) changing dimensions, such as who is the focus of the narrative, what they are doing, and where they are doing it; amongst which, this ‘where’ dimension is thought to be crucial in forming even the simplest representation …