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Jabberwocky Parsing: Dependency Parsing With Lexical Noise, Jungo Kasai, Robert Frank
Jabberwocky Parsing: Dependency Parsing With Lexical Noise, Jungo Kasai, Robert Frank
Robert Frank
Parsing models have long benefited from the use of lexical information, and indeed current state-of-the art neural network models for dependency parsing achieve substantial improvements by benefiting from distributed representations of lexical information. At the same time, humans can easily parse sentences with unknown or even novel words, as in Lewis Carroll’s poem Jabberwocky. In this paper, we carry out jabberwocky parsing experiments, exploring how robust a state-of-the-art neural network parser is to the absence of lexical information. We find that current parsing models, at least under usual training regimens, are in fact overly dependent on lexical information, and perform …
La Restricción Del Pronombre Explícito En Los Hablantes De Herencia Hispano, Ewelina Barski
La Restricción Del Pronombre Explícito En Los Hablantes De Herencia Hispano, Ewelina Barski
Ewelina Barski, PhD
A talk given on my dissertation topic, discussing Spanish heritage speakers in Canada and their interpretation of the Overt Pronoun Constraint. The talk was presented at a 4th year Spanish linguistics class - Spanish in Contact (SP4412F) - at Western University. The presentation was done in Spanish.
General Number And The Structure Of Dp, Ileana Paul
Sluicing Without Wh-Movement In Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Eric Potsdam
Sluicing Without Wh-Movement In Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Eric Potsdam
Ileana Paul
No abstract provided.
Properties Of Predication (Canadian Journal Of Linguistics 57(2)), Ileana Paul
Properties Of Predication (Canadian Journal Of Linguistics 57(2)), Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
No abstract provided.
The Opc In Spanish And Polish Monolingual Speakers, Ewelina Barski
The Opc In Spanish And Polish Monolingual Speakers, Ewelina Barski
Ewelina Barski, PhD
A variety of studies have documented the acquisition of the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC) (Montalbetti, 1984) in second language speakers (Kanno 1997, Pérez-Leroux & Glass 1999, Rothman & Iverson, 2007) but none have looked at the OPC from an experimental perspective. This paper takes an experimental approach to the OPC focusing on the mental representation of the OPC in Spanish and Polish monolinguals going beyond L2 speakers and probing into the interpretations that monolinguals assign to pronouns (null and overt) with quantified and referential antecedents. Specifically, I aim to investigate whether there is a difference in how monolinguals treat different …
The Opc: An Experimental Approach, Ewelina Barski
The Opc: An Experimental Approach, Ewelina Barski
Ewelina Barski, PhD
A variety of studies have documented the acquisition of the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC) (Montalbetti 1984) in second language speakers (Kanno 1997, Pérez-Leroux & Glass 1999, Rothman & Iverson 2007). This study is an experimental approach to the Overt Pronoun Constraint in native Spanish speakers. Much has been said about this constraint but very few data have been collected to corroborate the asymmetry between referential NPs and quantified antecedents. According to the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC) (Montalbetti, 1984) unlike the null pronoun, the overt pronoun can never refer back to a quantified expression (1) or a WH-word (2): The overt …
Specification And Inversion: Evidence From Malagasy, Ileana Paul
Specification And Inversion: Evidence From Malagasy, Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
No abstract provided.
Really Intriguing, That Pred Np!, Ileana Paul, Robert Stainton
Really Intriguing, That Pred Np!, Ileana Paul, Robert Stainton
Robert J. Stainton
No abstract provided.
Subjects: Grammatical Relations, Grammatical Functions And Functional Categories, Ileana Paul
Subjects: Grammatical Relations, Grammatical Functions And Functional Categories, Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
This paper presents an overview of how the notion of “subject” has been defined in linguistic theory. Although the term developed out of Artistotelian logic, the use has been narrowed to refer to the grammatical relation (or function). Over the past fifty years, the definition of subject and its universality has been the source of much debate. Broadly Chomskian approaches claim that grammatical relations such as subject are not primitives of the grammar and can be derived from phrase structure. As such, testing for the subject involves constituency tests. Other approaches (Relational Grammar, Lexical-Function Grammar) posit grammatical relations as primitives …
Specification And Inversion: Evidence From Malagasy, Ileana Paul
Specification And Inversion: Evidence From Malagasy, Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
This paper analyzes specificational sentences in Malagasy and shows that such sentences involve obligatory inversion, marked by the topic particle dia. I argue that the topicalized element is a small clause predicate that inverts with its subject. Two competing analyses of this inversion are compared and contrasted. I conclude with a brief comparison of Malagasy and Tagalog.
External Possession Meets Bare Nouns In Malagasy, Ileana Paul
External Possession Meets Bare Nouns In Malagasy, Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
This paper examines apparent noun incorporation in Malagasy that is the result of external possession (possessor raising). It is shown that such incorporation is not derived via head movement or via compounding. Instead, it is argued that this is an instance of pseudo noun incorporation (Massam, 2001): the possessum is merged as an NP sister to the predicate. As for the structure of external possession, a non-movement analysis is proposed: the apparent possessor is generated as the specifier of a null possessive head and binds an empty argument position within the possessum. The resulting structure and meaning are shown to …
Bare Nouns, Incorporation, And Scope, Ileana Paul
Determiners: Universals And Variation, Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul, Martina Wiltschko
Determiners: Universals And Variation, Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul, Martina Wiltschko
Ileana Paul
No abstract provided.
Determiners: Universals And Variation, Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul, Martina Wiltschko
Determiners: Universals And Variation, Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul, Martina Wiltschko
Ileana Paul
No abstract provided.
On The Topic Of Pseudoclefts, Ileana Paul
On The Topic Of Pseudoclefts, Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
This paper presents arguments in favor of a pseudocleft analysis of a certain class of sentences in Malagasy, despite the lack of an overt wh-element. It is shown that voice morphology on the verb creates an operator-variable relationship much like the one created by wh-movement in free relatives in English and other languages. The bulk of the paper argues in favor of an inversion analysis of specificational pseudoclefts in Malagasy: a predicate DP is fronted to a topic position from within a small clause constituent. Moreover, it is shown that the same inversion occurs in equative and specificational sentences in …
How To Sluice In The Wh-In-Situ Language Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Eric Potsdam
How To Sluice In The Wh-In-Situ Language Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Eric Potsdam
Ileana Paul
No abstract provided.
La Syntaxe, La Morphologie Et La Phonologie De La Réduction Dans Les Titres, Ivan Chow, Volha Kharytonava, Mikalai Kliashchuk, Ileana Paul
La Syntaxe, La Morphologie Et La Phonologie De La Réduction Dans Les Titres, Ivan Chow, Volha Kharytonava, Mikalai Kliashchuk, Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
Le présent article examine le cas de la réduction dans les titres de journaux avec les données de plusieurs langues. Nous constatons qu’il existe plusieurs types de réduction: la réduction syntaxique, morphophonologique, et la réduction phonétique. Nous faisons un survol des différents types et nous laissons pour la recherche future une analyse plus détaillée des structures.
Great Coffee, That Maxwell House!, Ileana Paul
Missing Topics In Malagasy Headlines, Ileana Paul
Ergativity In Austronesian Languages, Ileana Paul, Lisa Travis
Ergativity In Austronesian Languages, Ileana Paul, Lisa Travis
Ileana Paul
No abstract provided.
Disjunction In Free Choice And Polarity In Malagasy, Ileana Paul
Disjunction In Free Choice And Polarity In Malagasy, Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
No abstract provided.
Bare Nouns In The Typology Of Dps, Ileana Paul
Two Types Of Non-Noun-Incorporation, Ileana Paul
Multiple Topics: Evidence From Malagasy, Ileana Paul
Multiple Topics: Evidence From Malagasy, Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
No abstract provided.
The Handbook Of Contemporary Syntactic Theory (Mark Baltin And Chris Collins, Eds.), Ileana Paul
The Handbook Of Contemporary Syntactic Theory (Mark Baltin And Chris Collins, Eds.), Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
No abstract provided.
The Syntactic Encoding Of Topic And Focus, Ileana Paul
The Syntactic Encoding Of Topic And Focus, Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
No abstract provided.
On Extraction Asymmetries, Ileana Paul
An Explanation Of Extraction Asymmetries In Malagasy, Ileana Paul
An Explanation Of Extraction Asymmetries In Malagasy, Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
This paper investigates one aspect of cross-linguistic variation in extraction patterns. Data from Malagasy have posed a problem for ECP-based accounts of A-bar movement. This variation is shown to stem from fundamental differences in how arguments are licensed. In Malagasy, for example, objects are licensed in-situ and never escape vP. Since vP is a strong phase, objects can never be a target for A-bar movement. In languages such as English, however, objects must be licensed by some head external to the vP. Movement to the edge of vP in English allows for futher A-bar movement. Also discussed is how the …
Une Anaphore Nue En Malgache, Ileana Paul
Une Anaphore Nue En Malgache, Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
Cet article porte sur l’anaphore malgache tena ‘corps’. Il est démontré que cette anaphore est un nominal «nu». À cause de sa forme, la distribution de tena est assez restreinte et contraste avec la distribution d’un autre élément supposément anaphorique, ny tenany ‘son corps’. Ce dernier n’est pas une anaphore, en effet, mais a la distribution et l’interprétation d’un nominal complexe qui contient un pronom possessif. This article examines the Malagasy anaphor tena ‘body’. It is shown that this anaphor is a bare noun and therefore has a highly restricted distribution. Tena is then contrasted with another anaphor-like element, ny …