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Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics -, 1992 The automatic acquisition of lexical knowledge from large corpora has dealt primarily with coocurrence phenomena, at the expense of inherent lexical features. We present here a methodology for obtaining semantic information on verb aspect by parsing a corpus and automatically applying linguistic tests with a set of structural analysis tools.
Judith L. Klavans, Martin Chodorow
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Ability/possibility and stativity: Where is voice? [PDF]
, 2016 Τhis paper focuses on adjectival ability/possibility -tos participles in Greek. It is observed that they come from stative structures. Apart from stativity and modality, it is noted that they have more common properties with verbal dispositional Middle ...
Samioti, Panagiota
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Languages, 2022 Many so-called ‘zero tense’-marked (which we define as morphologically reduced and underspecified inflections) or untensed verb forms found in tenseless languages, have been characterized as context dependent for their temporal and aspectual ...
Patrick Caudal, James Bednall
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A syntactic approach to the Spanish 'al + infinitive' construction
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2016 The paper seeks to study the way in which the interpretation is fixed in the Spanish AL + infinitive construction. The reading of these adjuncts can be temporal or causal. Some studies that have approached this issue previously (Rigau 1993; Alonso-Ovalle
Pablo Rico
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Past Participle Agreement in Majorcan Catalan: the Relevance of Inner Aspect
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2017 This paper aims to explain, from a theoretical point of view, the behaviour of past participle agreement with the object in situ (PPAOIS) in Majorcan Catalan.
Sebastià Salvà i Puig
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Formal Semantics for the Progressive of Stative and Non-Stative Verbs [PDF]
, 2015 In the first part of this contribution, we will present, as a starting point for the following discussions, a simple formal language P containing one stative predicate. We will then discuss, on an intuitive level, how a treatment of predicates of change could be conceived, and how the progressive could be rendered in a formal language.
Ballweg, Joachim, Frosch, Helmut
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The syntax and semantics of past participle agreement in Alemannic
Glossa, 2019 This paper investigates agreement on past participles in Highest Alemannic dialects of German. We will first show that participle agreement only occurs in contexts where the participle is adjectival, viz., in stative passives and in resultative perfects,
Gerhard Schaden, Martin Salzmann
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Participles: Form, use and meaning
Glossa, 2019 This paper serves as an introduction to a special collection on the form, use and meaning of past passive participles used in perfect and passive constructions.
Berit Gehrke, Olga Borik
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Zeitschrift für Wortbildung, 2020 This article examines French Verb-Noun compounds with Means value (couvre-pied 'blanket', lit. cover-feet), derived from stative bases. It shows that they are generally ambiguous between Means and Instrument reading.
Marie Laurence Knittel +1 more
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Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2016 This paper studies the SER / ESTAR alternation in Spanish. Following the logic behind Freeze's (1992) and Kayne's (1993) analysis of Benveniste's (1960) approach to HAVE, it is argued that ESTAR derives from SER plus the incorporation of an additional ...
Ángel J. Gallego, Juan Uriagereka
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