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Kim, Jong-Bok
- Language and Information
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- v.7 no.1
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- pp.55-68
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- 2003
Most of the previous approaches to English agreement phenomena have relied upon only one component of the grammar (e.g., either syntax, or semantics, or pragmatics). This paper argues that interrelationships among different grammatical components play crucial roles in such phenomenon too (cf. Kathol 1999 and Hudson 1999). The paper proposes that, contrary to traditional wisdom, English determiner-noun agreement is morpho-syntactic whereas subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement are reflections of index agreement (cf. Pollard and Sag 1994). The present hybrid analysis of English agreement shows the importance of the interaction of different components of the grammar in accounting for English agreement phenomena. In particular, once we allow morphology to tightly interact with the system of syntax, semantics, or even pragmatics, we could provide a solution to some puzzling English agreement phenomena. This allows a more principled theory of English agreement.
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Yang, Dan-Hee;Lee, Ik-Hwan
- Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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- 2002.02a
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- pp.447-454
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- 2002
This paper proposes that the argument structures be stated in a way that uses probabilities derived from a corpus to replace a Boolean-value system of subcategorization. To do this, we make a cognitive model from a situation to an utterance to explain the phenomena of arguments'ellipsis, though the traditional term ellipsis is not suitable under our new concepts. We claim that the binary distinction is neither rational nor suitable for a real syntactic analysis. To solve this problem, we propose two new concepts argumentness and probabilistic Case structures by adapting the prototype theory. We believe that these concepts are effective in the syntactic analysis of NLP.
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Lin, Huei-Ling
- Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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- 2002.02a
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- pp.308-319
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- 2002
Taiwanese abounds with verbal complexes. Among them, phasal complexes, resultative complexes, and directional complexes are alike in that their second component denotes some sort of result. Moreover, they behave similarly in that they can occur in V-ho-Y, V-e/be-Y, and V-bo-V forms. Despite the similarities, they still differ from one another in several aspects, such as whether objects are allowed inside or after the verbal complex, whether infixing changes their basic meaning, etc. This paper examines their individual properties carefully and proposes that these three types of complexes are all different from one another in their formation and thus the difference in their syntactic behavior. Directional complexes are syntactic phrases, resultative complexes are compounds derived in syntax, and while some phasal complexes are also syntactically derived compounds, others are compounds formed in the lexicon. This paper aims to argue that words (or compounds in this case) can be formed in syntax as well as in the lexicon.
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