... martinis, Jean a apercu Marie After three martinis John saw Mary Note that "cause" in some cases is really a form of enablement, a fact hidden by the use ofa generic label cause in ... Krifka de- fines telic/atelic as a predicate of predicates; the lat- ter have objects as well as events in their domains, and, linguistically, they are nominal as well as ver- bal predicates. ... 3.1 Coercion is lexically driven The notion ofcoercion owes much of its attractive- ness to its potential generality: having a separate general set of rules able to generate a set of accept-...
... that their sys-tem represents a powerful way of dealing with su-perlatives computationally, a closer inspection of their approach, and in particular of the gold stan-dard data set, reveals ... Elements ofa Computational Treat-ment of Superlatives For an interpretation of comparisons, two things are generally of interest: What is being compared, and with respect to what this comparison ... studies of su-perlatives have mainly focused on particular se-mantic properties that may only rarely occur in natural language (Szabolcsi, 1986; Heim, 1999). My goal is a comprehensive computational...
... can never be cancelled. We are not aware of any forma- lism or computational approach that offers a unified explanation for the cancellability of pragmatic infe- rences in general, and of ... in a logical framework that handles de- faults (Reiter, 1980), but this approach is not tracta- ble and it treats natural disjunction as an exclusive- or and implication as logical equivalence. ... contains more information and that information can be more easily updated in the fu- ture. That means that if an interpretation m0 makes an utterance true by assigning to a relation R a defensible...
... Cedex 05, FRANCE caudal @linguist.jussieu.fr Abstract I will argue in this paper that the standard notions of affectedness, change -of- state and result state are too coarse-grained, and will ... drank a glass of beer. The glass of beer in (2) undergoes an incremental CoS, and is therefore an incremental theme. Path- objects (cf. Mary walked the Appalachian trail ; Tenny 1994), can ... Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection. Languages, 67(3). Jackendoff, R. 1996. The ProperTreatmentof Measuring Out, Telicity and Perhaps Event Quantification in English. Natural Language...
... Universfitatis C.aroli, nae: Slavica 2ra~ensia 2. ~. Z.av<~Lov~ Eva. 1~7 =. Re~ro~r~dnf :~orfe:aat~ck~' slovn~,~ ceot~n E [A retrograde morphematicd[ctiona- ry of Czech). Praha: Academia. ... project of man-machine cozununication without a pre-arranged data base (TIBAQ). The kind of morphemic analysis z~resented here is based on a retrograde (right-to-left) analysis of words by means ... to grammatical agreement, also with verbs and adjectives in the above mentioned way, and because in tech- nical texts substantially more masculine- -animate than feminine-animate nouns are...
... Worcester Road,Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 1L1, CanadaLibrary of Congress Cataloguing in Publication DataLong, D. A. (Derek Albert)The Raman effect : a unified treatmentof the theory of Raman scattering ... 215Raman spectra of 170rotation and vibration-rotation Ramanspectra of 204–207symmetric 40, 44linear polarization 565–566, 569 of monochromatic radiation 132tlinear polarized radiation ... of Quantum Mechanical Treatmentof IncoherentLight Scattering to Include Magnetic Dipole and ElectricQuadrupole Cases 272.6 Comparison of t he Classical and Quantum MechanicalTreatments of...
... Sentence-initial 'then' and sentence- final 'at the time' and 'at the same time' are also included, although we do not discuss their analysis here. There is a range of verbs, ... climb(X,Y) al named(X,'Emily') named(Y,'Ben Nevis') Figure 2: An EKN proposition abstract or 'type'. anchored to an individual named 'Emily' and Y to an individual ... aspect and various aspectual classes. In particular, the gram- mar generates the required readings, accor- ding to the theoretical analysis of (Glasbey, forthcoming), for sentence-final 'then'....
... donors,international humanitarian agencies, national authorities, national and internationalnon-governmental organizations, and community based organizations.The development of this guide is part of an ... also cause anaemia by destroying the red blood cells.Anaemia in pregnancy: Anaemia in pregnancy is defined as a haemoglobin concentration of lessthan 110 g/l. Degree of anaemia—classified as ... efficiency).- Participation of national NGOs and authorities.- Participation of national women’s and human rightsorganizations.- Participation and role of the counterpart in thesemechanisms. 29ANNEX...
... downloading and playing music, films and games. Less than one-tenth of the parents in Bulgaria (7%) and Lithuania (8%), and one-tenth of the parents in Greece and Latvia (both 11%) answered that ... and Belgium (78%). The fact that almost all parents had rules against divulging personal information might explain why not so many parents in a majority of the Member States were worried that ... of 10 parents said that their child was not allowed to create a profile in an online community (63%) or to use chat rooms (61%), and half of the parents had rules against visiting certain...
... Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan Ukraine, Serbia, Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Croatia, Albania, Republic of Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, ... afliates in such countries. Investment in Central and Eastern Europe by foreign afliates in Austria is a typical case.Investment can originate from any afliate ofa TNC system at any stage ... increase was driven by East and South-East Asia and Latin America. East and South-East Asia still accounted for almost half of FDI in developing economies. Inows to the transition economies of...
... DONGAN adverbial. (11) hanshigan DONGAN kwanghoe bihaenggiga naratta an hour/ DONGAN/ of Kwangho/ airplane-NOM/ fly-PA-DEC Kwangho’s airplane flew for an hour. We determine the semantic ... λ-abstraction and ‘*’ stands for λ-application. As for DONGAN adverbials, they present the maximal duration of the described event as in (11). (11) hanshigan DONGAN kwanghoe bihaenggiga naratta an ... semantic representation of the nuclear sentence of (8) is established in the same way as explained above in Figure 3. At last, taking the semantic terms of the OE adverbial and of the nuclear...
... Ohzenji Asao-ku, Kawasaki-shi, 215 JAPAN ABSTRACT A propertreatmentof syntax and semantics in machine translation is introduced and discussed from the empirical viewpoint. For English- Japanese ... production rule type grammars (Table 3 & Table 4). It may be permissible to say that all these syntactic data are fairly compact and the kernel parts are already well-elaborated (cf. [i], ... languages. The sub-Japanese language approach in particular seems to be effective for Japanese-English machine translaton. One of our current interests is in a proper treatmentof syntax and...