Since the early 1950's, the digital computer has become a familiar object. The use of such machines has become widespread, in part because of the availability of higher-level languages, which make computers rather easy to use. In the early 1960's, when computer science began to develop as...
To be sure, power or conflict theory may be closely linked to either role theory (as when, for example, one talks about the differences in power that are present between the status of a male and a female in interaction) and also to exchange theory (as when the costs to participating in...
This thesis deals with one of the central tasks of IE, i.e., relation extraction. The goal is to provide a general framework that automatically learns mappings between linguistic analyses and target semantic relations, with minimal human intervention. Furthermore, this framework is supposed to ...
2016. Language between prescription and description. Verbs and verb categories in nineteenth-century grammars of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190270674.001.0001Search in Google Scholar Auer, Anita. 2009. The subjunctive in the age of prescriptivism: English and German...
Early sensitivity of left perisylvian cortex to relationality in nouns and verbs Grammatical categoryThe ability to track the relationality of concepts, i.e., their capacity to encode a relationship between entities, is one of the ... A Williams,S Reddigari,L Pylkk?Nen - 《Neuropsychologia》...
The sentence in (12), for example (where we have the indefinite plural eli bat‘some’ in direct object position), is ambiguous between a wide scope reading of the direct object over the verb want where it is possible to refer to the boys denoted by the object NP and a narrow scope ...
selectionofearlyviews).Therelationship betweenthetwolanguagesiscrucialbecauseitdefinestheverynatureofsecondlanguage acquisition:ifL2acquisitiondidnotdifferinsomewayfromL1acquisition,SLAresearch wouldbemerelyasub-fieldoflanguageacquisitionresearchratherthanafieldofitsown.It isatruismthatthedefiningcharacteristicofL2...
L1 & L2: Grammars in competition (Yang 2003) Dominant L2 (L2 “acquired”) Dominant L1 or oscillation between L1 and L2 grammar (L2 “not acquired”) Our L2 study Production of target-like Germanic NS (as a measure of acquisition of Germanic NSR) Production of vowel reduction (as a me...
22. Which of the following functions are NOT the functions put forward by Halliday? A. The Ideational Function B. The Interpersonal Function C. Generative Function D. The Textual Function 23. The relation between the determiner “this” and the noun “man” in the phrase “this man” is _...
Identification of discourse relations, such as causal and contrastive relations, between situations mentioned in text is an important task for biomedical text-mining. A biomedical text corpus annotated with discourse relations would be very useful for de