Crossroads Semantics

Name: Crossroads Semantics | Computation, experiment and grammar
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Computation, experiment and grammar

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Intro
Crossroads Semantics
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Bridging theoretical and experimental linguistic research
1. Introduction
2. What is at stake?
3. Metho ds of measurement
3.1 Offline versus online data collection
3.2 Online data in ellipsis research
4. Towar ds a unified research program
4.1 Three levels of analysis
4.2 Computational (psycho)linguistics
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Part I. Data and its use
Chapter 2. Experimental research: Problems and opportunities in the big-data era
1. Introduction
2. The questionable empirical toolbox
2.1 Bias
2.2 Null h ypothesis testing
2.3 Theory testing
3. Scientific publications and evaluation
3.1 The economy of the publication and evaluation systems
3.2 Alternatives for the evaluation system
4. More data, more problems?
References
Chapter 3. Finding long-distance dependencies in the Lassy Corpus
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Non-local dependencies in the Lassy Corpus
4. Long-distance dependencies
5. Long distance dependencies with non-finite clauses
6. Resumptive prolepsis
7. R-pronominal parasitic gaps
8. Conclusions
References
Chapter 4. How to compare speed and accuracy of syntactic parsers
1. Introduction
2. Background: The Alpino parser for Dutch
3. Methodology: Balancing efficiency and accuracy
3.1 On-line and off-line parsing scenarios
3.2 Accuracy: Comparing sets of dependencies
4. Learning efficient parsing
4.1 Left-corner parsing
4.2 Left-corner splines
4.3 Filtering left-corner splines
4.4 Comparison with link table
4.5 Implementation detail
5. Experimental results
5.1 Results on Alpino Treebank
5.2 Effect of the amount of training data
5.3 Experiment with D-Coi data
6. Specializing lexical categories
7. Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 5. Adposition clusters in Dutch
1. Introduction
2. Adpos ition clustering exists
2.1 A first attempt
2.2 A second attempt
3. Ident ifying the clustering adpositions
3.1 Retrieval
3.2 Filtering
3.3 An objection and its rebuttal
4. Prope rties of the Dutch adposition clusters
5. Concl usion
References
Chapter 6. Polarity licensing and intervention by conjunction
1. Introduction
2. Chier chia's account
3. Asymm etric conjunction
4. Polar ity items in conjunctions
5. Movem ent of NPIs: A way out?
6. Furth er problems
7. Concl usions
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 7. Frequential test of (S)OV as unmarked word order in Dutch and German clauses: A serendipitous corpus-linguistic experiment
1. Introduction
2. Metho dology
3. Three frequential tests
4. Discu ssion: Time and fluency pressures can boost VO:OV ratios
References
Appendices
Appendi x A. The six treebanks used in the present study
Appendi x B. Computing bias and coverage values
Appendi x C. The Top50 verbs (lemmas) in the six treebanks
Chapter 8. Kratzer's effect in the nominal domain: Fake indexicals in Dutch and German
1. Introduction
2. Fake indexicals
3. Kratzer (2009)
4. Problems and extensions
5. Theoretical implementation
6. Application in English
7. Variational semantics
8. Conclusions
References
Chapter 9. Is bilingual speech production language-specific or non-specific?: Is bilingual speech production language-specific or non-specific?: The case of gender congruency in Dutch-English bilinguals
1. Introduction
2. Experiment - semantic interference and gender congruency effects in a bilingual picture-word interference paradigm
2.1 Methods
2.2 Results
3. Discussion
References
Appendices
Appendix A. Overview of Stimuli used
Appendix B . Frequency of words reported to be unknown in all subjects
Chapter 10. Prosody of restrictive and appositive relative clauses in Dutch and German
1. Introduction
1.1 Structure-prosody
1.2 Prosody of RRC and ARC
2. Method
2.1 Stimuli
2.2 Procedure
2.3 Statistical analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion and conclusion
References
Appendices
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Chapter 11. Licensing distributivity: The role of plural morphology
1. Introd uction
2. Some p reliminaries
3. The role of VP number in licensing distributivity: British English group NPs
4. Plural isation as the semantic correlate of number inflection: The (im)possibility of atom/set coordination
4. Plural isation as the semantic correlate of number inflection: The (im)possibility of atom/set coordination
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Part II. Implementation and theory building
Chapter 12. Extending categorial grammar to phonology
1. Introduction
2. A simple categorial system
3. Autosegmental categorial grammar
4. Feature repulsion
5. Interaction with morphosyntax
6. Conclusion
References
Chapter 13. Stacking up for the long way down
1. Directionality
1.1 Bottom-up structure building
1.2 Top-down structure building
2. Cyclicity
3. Locality
3.1 Strong islands: Absolute opacity
3.2 Weak islands: Intervention and path containment
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 14. Meaning between algebra and culture: Auto-antonyms in the Ewe verb lexicon
1. Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Meaning construction: some assumptions
2. Antony my in language and thought
3. Janus verb words in Ewe
3.1 What th e Ewe dictionaries say
3.2 The ver b mie
3.3 The ver b dró
4. Conclu ding remarks
References
Chapter 15. Whether you like it or not, this is a paper about or not
1. Introduction
2. The "whether.or type"
3. The "question or not type"
4. The "assertion or.not type"
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 16. Between desire and necessity: The complementarity of want and need
1. Three properties distinguishing need from want
1.1 Selection
1.2 Raising vs. control
1.3 Want as need/*need as want
1.4 Grammaticalization?
1.5 Towards an analysis
2. A raising configuration for want and need
3. The sy ntactic and semantic representation of want and need
4. From desirability to apparent necessity
5. From desirability to probability
6. Conclusion
References
Chapter 17. Inner aspect and the comparative quantifiers
1. The big picture
2. Compar ative quantifiers and mereological approaches to aspect
3. VPs wi th undergoers quantified by comparative quantifiers
4. Progre ssives and comparatively quantified undergoers
5. Defini te descriptions
6. Presup position and contrastiveness do not explain the facts
7. Other vague quantifiers
8. Numera l quantification and telicity
9. Conclu sion
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 18. The expressive en maar-construction
1. Introduction
2. The in finitive
2.1 Root infinitive versus nominal infinitive
2.2 What is the "clausal size" of the root infinitive?
3. On the syntactic behaviour and interpretation of maar
4. Some s peculations on the expressivity of 'en'
5. Conclusion
References
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