Predicting the Argumenthood of English Prepositional Phrases

Kim, Najoung; Rawlins, Kyle; Durme, Benjamin Van; Smolensky, Paul

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“…Do What-Pseudoclefting Do so-anaphora does not provide evidence for DAVD as a property of adjunction. However, the closely related do what-pseudoclefting is also widely cited in support of this property and is sometimes claimed to provide more robust support than do so-anaphora does (seeSchütze 1995, Hedberg & DeArmond 2009, Needham & Toivonen 2011, Kim et al 2019, Zyman 2022. In this section, I show that do what-pseudoclefting also fails to provide evidence for DAVD as a property of adjunction.…”

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“…Hedberg & DeArmond 2009, Needham & Toivonen 2011 or as a gradient distinction (e.g. Forker 2014, Rissman et al 2015, Kim et al 2019. One might suspect that DAVD could be salvaged if stated as a property of one of these more sophisticated approaches.…”

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“…There may be an argument to be made that the verb do, denoting maximally generic events, lacks argumentstructural content, so that the PPs compatible with do so must be adjuncts by definition Kim et al (2019). make an argument to this effect.…”

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Separability of dependents from VP in English: Beyond the argument/adjunct distinction

McInnerney

2024

J. Ling.

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This paper considers the traditional idea about English that syntactic operations targeting Verb Phrase (VP), including do so-anaphora, do what-pseudoclefting and VP-fronting, can separate adjuncts but not arguments from the VP. I argue that, in each case, the argument/adjunct distinction (A/AD) makes incorrect predictions and that the behavior of verbal dependents is more accurately explained without reference to the A/AD. With do so-anaphora and do what-pseudoclefting, I show that the behavior of a variety of Prepositional Phrase (PP) dependents is better explained by the lexical properties of the verb do: a PP’s ability to occur with do so-anaphora/do what-pseudoclefting depends on the PP’s independent compatibility with the lexical verb do. On VP-fronting, I show that apparent stranding of arguments and adjuncts poses major problems for A/AD-based analyses and suggest apparent stranding is better analyzed as extraposition. These results weaken an important motivation for the idea that adjuncts attach to a higher projection in the VP than arguments do.

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Separability of dependents from VP in English: Beyond the argument/adjunct distinction

McInnerney

2024

J. Ling.

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“…The wide adoption of MEBN and its development system makes the proposed syntactico-semantic pattern recognition method to be directly used in existing systems. Attempts for the disambiguation of PP attachment using context aware semantic information have proved to be effective compared to syntactic or text corpus based token embeddings [15][16] [17]. The approach for PP attachment disambiguation discussed in this paper is one such promising approach not requiring the disambiguation method to frequently train on the text corpus.…”

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A Theoretical Foundation for Syntactico-Semantic Pattern Recognition

Patnaikuni

Gengaje

2021

IEEE Access

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Conventionally syntactic pattern recognition tasks have been driven by grammars defining a syntactic structure. Syntactic Pattern recognition tasks were primarily relying on the ability of parsing algorithms to recognize the patterns in the input data. These algorithms essentially were dependent on the syntactic grammars defining the patterns. Context free grammars, a type of grammars have been particularly well studied for pattern recognition tasks to be solved by computer efficiently. Some of the key pattern recognition tasks had applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Though context free grammars are well suited for capturing rigid patterns and unambiguous patterns, there was a need to encapsulate the uncertainty aspects involved in some pattern recognition processes. Probabilistic context free grammars can well handle the need to capture uncertainty in the processes but not in a true sense be able to capture the uncertainty associated with the semantic context governing the domain in which the pattern recognition processes are being attempted at.The paper formally puts forth an approach for syntactico-semantic pattern recognition. The syntacticosemantic pattern recognition attempts to capture the semantic context and the uncertainties involved thereof along with probabilistic reasoning. The approach consists of integration mapping between probabilistic context free grammar (PCFG) and Multi Entity Bayesian network (MEBN), a first-order logic for modeling probabilistic knowledge bases. Additionally, the paper outlines a modified version of the CYK parser algorithm for the defined mapping between PCFG and MEBN with a method to ensure the properness and consistency of such PCFG along with its key application, disambiguation of PP (Prepositional Phrase) attachment. The theoretical foundation proposed has been validated by a proof-of-concept implementation of the modified CYK algorithm for syntactico-semantic reasoning in Java with promising ability to disambiguate of PP attachment uses cases of New York Times and Wikipedia corpus dataset samples.

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“…Following Kim et al (2018), we accounted for individual differences in the use of the Likert scale by z-transforming the 25 judgments for each verb. The statistical analysis was carried out in R (R Core Team 2019), and density plots (as in Figure 1 above) were created using the R packages ggplot2 (Wickham 2016), ggridges (Wilke 2018) and viridis (Garnier 2018).…”

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On the argumenthood of optional PPs with Italian motion verbs

Cappelli¹,

Bertinetto²,

Lenci³

2019

Proceedings of International Conferences of Experimental Linguistics

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In this study, we investigated the argumenthood of locative PPs occurring with motion verbs in Italian, by means of a behavioral experiment based on the traditional optionality test for argumenthood. Previous research relied on linguists' intuitions or corpus frequencies, and to our knowledge no published research on motion verbs in Italian has employed a behavioral experiment yet. Consistently with recent literature, we show that the optional PPs occurring with each motion verb have different argumenthood scores on a gradient scale depending on the interaction between their Aktionsart and morphosyntactic class. We observed that achievements occur with adjuncts, activities with in-between constituents, accomplishments either with arguments or with adjuncts depending on their auxiliary in compound tenses.

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Predicting the Argumenthood of English Prepositional Phrases

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Separability of dependents from VP in English: Beyond the argument/adjunct distinction

Separability of dependents from VP in English: Beyond the argument/adjunct distinction

A Theoretical Foundation for Syntactico-Semantic Pattern Recognition

On the argumenthood of optional PPs with Italian motion verbs

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