An important contrast between most current syntactic frameworks and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar or Lexical Functional Grammar (hereafter HPSG and LFG respectively) is the common insistence of the latter two on the ...

Two properties characterize sign-based, constructional theories such as Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and Construction Grammar (CG). Firstly, phrases as well as words are organized in richly articulated ...

Non-quantificational NP's are often divided into indefinites and definites. The former introduce new referents; the latter refer back to entities already introduced in discourse (see Kamp 1981, Heirri 1982, Fauconnier ...

What is a possible word meaning? What is the range of meaning distinctions to which particular words can be sensitive? Such questions have been at the forefront of research in lexical semantics in recent years (see Talmy ...

In this paper, I will outline a monotonic approach to what Jackendoff (1990) calls the correspondence problem, i.e. the mapping of semantic structure to surface syntax. My approach is based on three simple ideas. The first ...

Many linguists and philosophers hold the view that scalar lexical items are downward bounded semantically and upward bounded only pragmatically via implicatures a Ia Grice. This approach, called by Anscombre and Ducrot ...

Many recent lexical and syntactic theories have used TYPE HIERARCHIES to model linguistic generalizations, including valence alternations, morphological generalizations, subregularities, and positive exceptions ...

This report provides a selection of 12 research papers conducted during 1997-1999 that highlight the research accomplishments of MCEER. Contents of the report are: 1) applications for remotely sensed data; 2) Improving ...