18 search hits
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Report on the British Council sponsored conference held in 20-22 of may 2001 in Chełm : "the pitfalls of teaching grammar, lexis and Anglo-Saxon culture at a college level"
(2002)
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Grzegorz A. Kleparski
Bożena Kochman-Haładyj
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Grammatical consciousness-raising and grammar typology
(2008)
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Marta Dick-Bursztyn
Grzegorz A. Kleparski
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Grammaticalization and Grammar
(1992)
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Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
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Verbal Noun or Verbal Adjective? The Case of the Latin Gerundive and Gerund
(1987)
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Martin Haspelmath
- It is the aim of this paper to present and elaborate a new solution to the old syntactic problems connected with the Latin gerundive and gerund, two verbal categories which have been interpreted variously either as adjective (or participle) or noun (or infinitive). These questions have been much discussed for quite a number of years […] but for the most part from a philological or purely diachronic point of view. All these linguists try to explain the peculiarities of these categories and their syntax by showing that the gerund is historically prior to the gerundive. [...] It is our thesis […] that in order to arrive at a unified account of gerundive and gerund we do not have to go back to prehistoric times. Even for the classical language gerund and gerundive represent the same category, in the sense that the gerund can be shown to be a special case of the gerundive. Additional evidence from a parallel construction in Hindi is adduced to make the Latin facts more plausible. It is only in the post-classical language that certain tendencies which had shown up already in Old Latin poetry become stronger and finally lead to a reanalysis of the gerundive and a split into two distinct syntactic constructions. The propositional meaning of the gerundive in its attributive use is explained with reference to a conflict between syntactic and cognitive principles. Special constructions which are the effects of such conflicts can be found in other parts of grammar. Languages differ with respect to the degree of syntacticization (or conventionalization) of these special constructions.
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Efficient Deep Processing of Japanese
(2002)
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Melanie Siegel
Emily M. Bender
- We present a broad coverage Japanese grammar written in the HPSG formalism with MRS semantics. The grammar is created for use in real world applications, such that robustness and performance issues play an important role. It is connected to a POS tagging and word segmentation tool. This grammar is being developed in a multilingual context, requiring MRS structures that are easily comparable across languages.
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Parallel Distributed Grammar Engineering for Practical Applications
(2002)
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Stephan Oepen
Emily M. Bender
Uli Callmeier
Dan Flickinger
Melanie Siegel
- Based on a detailed case study of parallel grammar development distributed across two sites, we review some of the requirements for regression testing in grammar engineering, summarize our approach to systematic competence and performance profiling, and discuss our experience with grammar development for a commercial application. If possible, the workshop presentation will be organized around a software demonstration.
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The mental representations of light verbs
(2008)
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Eva Wittenberg
Maria Mercedes Piñango
- The Light Verb Construction gives us a window into the mental lexicon: John takes a cup -> agent=John, theme = a cup John takes a walk -> agent = John, theme=Ø
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Argument structure in nominalizations : the case of the light verb construction in German
(2007)
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Eva Wittenberg
Maria Mercedes Piñango
- The predicate associated with the verb fails to express its full argument structure, while the predicate associated with the nominalization preserves its original argument structure.
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When verbs share their power : the case of the German light verb construction
(2008)
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Eva Wittenberg
Maria Mercedes Piñango
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Grammatical relations, agreement, and genetic stability
(1999)
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Balthasar Bickel
- Languages vary in whether or not primary grammatical relations (PGRs) are sensitive to information from clause-level case or phrase structures. This variation correlates with a difference between verb agreement systems based on feature unification and systems based on feature composition. The choice between different PGR and agreement principles is found to be highly stable genetically and to characterize Indo-European as systematically different from Sino-Tibetan. Although the choice is partially similar to the Configurationality Parameter, it is shown that Indo-European languages of South Asia are nonconfigurational due to areal pressure but follow their European relatives in PGR and agreement principles.
