Predicative Nouns and Negation

International audienceWe report experiments about the syntactic variations of support verb constructions, a special type of multiword expressions (MWEs) containing predicative nouns. In these expressions, the noun can occur with or without the verb, with no clear-cut semantic difference. We extracted from a large French corpus a set of examples of the two situations and derived statistical results from these data. The extraction involved large-coverage language resources and finite-state techniques. The results show that, most frequently, predicative nouns occur without a support verb. This fact has consequences on methods of extracting or recognising MWEs.Nous relatons des expériences sur les variations syntaxiques de constructions à verbe support, un type spécial d'expressions multi-mots (MWE) qui comportent des noms prédicatifs. Dans ces expressions, le nom peut apparaître avec ou sans le verbe, sans différence sémantique saillante. Nous avons extrait d'un vaste corpus de textes français un ensemble d'exemples des deux situations et nous avons tiré de ces données des résultats statistiques. L'extraction a mis en jeu des ressources linguistiques d'une couverture étendue et des techniques issues de la théorie des automates. Les résultats montrent que, la plupart du temps, les noms prédicatifs apparaissent sans verbe support. Ce fait a des conséquences sur les méthodes d'extraction et de reconnaissance de MWE

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“…De Angelis, 1989;S. Vietri, 1996), Portuguese (E. Ranchhod, 1989Ranchhod, , 1990, and Korean (C.-S. Hong, 1991;K. Shin, 1994;S.…”

Section: Support Verbs and Predicative Nounsmentioning

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Syntactic variation of support verb constructions

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Ranchhod

Yannacopoulou³

2008

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“…), où, comme en français, la préposition sans introduit une valeur négative. Mais, pour le portugais, on a observé aussi (Ranchhod 1989) que les phrases à verbes supports préservent la négation « classique », accomplie au moyen de l'adverbe négatif não (non), des constructions verbales et/ou adjectivales équivalentes. Les exemples suivants illustrent cette possibilité générale :…”

Section: Les Verbes Supports Et La Négationunclassified

Groupes nominaux négatifs issus de la réduction de verbes supports

Ranchhod¹

2005

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On the basis of general syntactic operations, within Z. S. Harris framework, we establish, for Portuguese, a syntactic relation between negative NPs, headed by a predicative noun (e.g. A não ratificação desse tratado por parte de alguns países; The non-ratification of that treaty by some countries), and negative support verb sentences (Não houve ratificação desse tratado por parte de alguns países; There was no ratification of that treaty by some countries). Support verb sentences, in turn, correspond to the nominalization of negative verbal (and adjectival) sentences (Alguns países não ratificaram esse tratado; Some countries did not ratify that treaty). Such an approach also clarifies the linguistic status of the element não (non) occurring in negative noun phrases, with predicative nouns, a linguistic fact mentioned sporadically by grammarians, and treated by lexicographers in a totally inconsistent way.Theoretical data were verified experimentally for Portuguese, English and French, on real text corpora, and the results confirm the consistency of the analysis.

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Predicative Nouns and Negation

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Syntactic variation of support verb constructions

Syntactic variation of support verb constructions

Groupes nominaux négatifs issus de la réduction de verbes supports

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