Nonverbal clause constructions

M Haspelmath - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
There are about a dozen well‐recognised types of nonverbal clause constructions, but the
terminology by which these subtypes are known varies widely. This paper gives an overview …

[کتاب][B] Handling Arabic morphological and syntactic ambiguity within the LFG framework with a view to machine translation

MA Attia - 2008‏ - search.proquest.com
This research investigates different methodologies to manage the problem of morphological
and syntactic ambiguities in Arabic. We build an Arabic parser using XLE (Xerox Linguistics …

Pargrambank: The pargram parallel treebank

S Sulger, M Butt, TH King, P Meurer, T Laczkó… - 2013‏ - kops.uni-konstanz.de
This paper discusses the construction of a parallel treebank currently involving ten
languages from six language families. The treebank is based on deep LFG (Lexical …

The syntax of Sanskrit compounds

JJ Lowe - Language, 2015‏ - muse.jhu.edu
Classical Sanskrit is well known for making extensive use of compounding. I argue, within a
lexicalist framework, that the major rules of compounding in Sanskrit can be most …

[PDF][PDF] A unified analysis of copula constructions in LFG

M Attia, M Butt, TH King - Proceedings of the LFG08 Conference …, 2008‏ - researchgate.net
In this paper we maintain that a unified analysis of the copula constructions in LFG is
necessary to capture syntactic generalizations. We discuss the various options available in …

[کتاب][B] Pragmatic syntax

J Kiaer - 2014‏ - books.google.com
Jieun Kiaer puts forward an argument in this book that the grammar of a language directly
underpins the processing of the language, in real time. This is a view that runs against the …

Temporal and aspectual auxiliaries in Maltese

M Camilleri - 2016‏ - repository.essex.ac.uk
This study aims to better understand the realisation of grammatical tense and aspect in
Maltese. We first consider the different temporal and aspectual interpretations related with …

[PDF][PDF] On the (un) bearable lightness of being an LFG style copula in Hungarian

T Laczkó, M Butt, TH King - Proceedings of the LFG12 Conference, 2012‏ - Citeseer
This paper develops the first comprehensive LFG analysis of the five most important types of
copula constructions in Hungarian. I basically adopt Dalrymple et al.'s (2004) programmatic …

The grammaticalisation of an auxiliary and a copula: The Arabic'sit'participle

M Camilleri, L Sadler - Journal of Historical Syntax, 2020‏ - historicalsyntax.org
This paper discusses the grammaticalisation of the posture verb active participle g?? id (and
phonological variants)'sitting'in vernacular Arabic. Two trajectories of change are …

On genericity and definiteness in modern standard Arabic

A Jaber - 2014‏ - search.proquest.com
The vast majority of formal analyses of the semantics of generics have been developed
based on data from a small number of well-studied languages, most notably English …