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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"syntactic category"”.
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Unsupervised syntactic category learning from child-directed speech
… of this research was to discover what kinds of syntactic categories can be learned using distributional analysis on linear context of words, specifically in child-directed speech. The idea behind this is that the categories used by children could very well be different from adult categories. …
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Language acquisition by computer: Learning categories, agreement and morphology under psychological constraints
… Indian language. Detailed procedures for syntactic category inference are discussed in this thesis, as well as proposals for the integration of semantic bootstrapping and syntax-driven syntactic category inference into one system. This thesis also shows how the form of X-bar Theory is …
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Language Acquisition in a Unification-Based Grammar Processing System Using a Real-World Knowledge Base
… entries for every word encountered in every syntactic category and with every semantic sense with which it may be used.
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The Adjectives of Yueqing
… Yueqing, a Southern Chinese variety, has a category of adjectives. It explores the morpho-syntactic properties of nouns, verbs and adjectives, and proposes that adjectival concepts are expressed by words that belong to the syntactic category of verbs in the language. It further examines the …
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Getting /srs about tone tags
… media platforms, specifically in regard to their syntactic distribution and semantic scope. The thesis ends with the conclusion that tone tags, while related to other lexical items (e.g.,adverbs), seem to project their own syntactic category with a range of unique properties.</p>
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Varieties of clausal complementation
… this dichotomy corresponds to a difference in syntactic structure. I propose that these different structures derive from an operation of promotion to subject position that is constrained by two factors. First, it is constrained by syntactic category: DPs, but crucially not CPs, are eligible for …
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On the Formal Flexibility of Syntactic Categories
… dissertation explores the formal flexibility of syntactic categories. The main proposal is that Universal Grammar (UG) only provides templatic guidance for syntactic category formation and organization but leaves many other issues open, including issues internal to a single category and issues at …
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Form and function of expressive morphology: a case study of Russian
… two different semantic types map onto different syntactic types. Attitude suffixes are syntactic heads, while size suffixes are syntactic modifiers. As heads, attitude suffixes determine the formal properties (syntactic category, grammatical gender and inflectional class) of the derived form. As …