Lexical Semantic Constraints on the Syntactic Realization of Semantic Role Possessor

2016 ◽  
pp. 214-222
Author(s):  
Shiyong Kang ◽  
Minghai Zhou ◽  
Qianqian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Role ◽  
Semantic Constraints ◽  
Lexical Semantic

Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 683-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Natural Kind ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Linguistic Feature ◽  
Semantic Constraints ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Grammatical Complexity ◽  
Artifact Type

While nouns are thought to be more easily borrowed than verbs, this investigation demonstrates that there may be limitations on noun borrowing into certain languages. The case of Zuni is examined, in which conditions of contact similar to that of neighboring languages nevertheless result in a different treatment of the noun lexicon. The possibility of borrowing natural kind nouns into Zuni exists alongside a tendency against borrowing nouns of the artifact type. It is argued that the source of this tendency against artifact noun borrowing in Zuni is the grammatical complexity of the lexical semantic representation for these nouns: grammatical complexity in Zuni noun roots appears to be dispreferred. These findings belie the claim of Thomason and Kaufman (1988) that “any linguistic feature can be transferred to any other language” given an appropriate degree of contact.

scholarly journals Logic in Natural Language: Commitments and Constraints

Disputatio ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (58) ◽  
pp. 277-308
Author(s):  
Gil Sagi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Logical Consequence ◽  
Logical Form ◽  
Semantic Role ◽  
Semantic Constraints

Abstract In his new book, Logical Form, Andrea Iacona distinguishes between two different roles that have been ascribed to the notion of logical form: the logical role and the semantic role. These two roles entail a bifurcation of the notion of logical form. Both notions of logical form, according to Iacona, are descriptive, having to do with different features of natural language sentences. I agree that the notion of logical form bifurcates, but not that the logical role is merely descriptive. In this paper, I focus on formalization, a process by which logical form, on its logical role, is attributed to natural language sentences. According to some, formalization is a form of explication, and it involves normative, pragmatic, as well as creative aspects. I present a view by which formalization involves explicit commitments on behalf of a reasoner or an interpreter, which serve the normative grounds for the evaluation of a given text. In previous work, I proposed the framework of semantic constraints for the explication of logical consequence. Here, I extend the framework to include formalization constraints. The various constraints then serve the role of commitments. I discuss specific issues raised by Iacona concerning univocality, co-reference and equivocation, and I show how our views on these matters diverge as a result of our different starting assumptions.

More's usage of Latin verbal predicates: the particular case of fio

Moreana ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (Number 211) (1) ◽  
pp. 97-120
Author(s):  
Concepción Cabrillana
Keyword(s):  
General Framework ◽  
Medieval Latin ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Syntactic Features ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
Poetic Text

This article addresses Thomas More's use of an especially complex Latin predicate, fio, as a means of examining the degree of classicism in this aspect of his writing. To this end, the main lexical-semantic and syntactic features of the verb in Classical Latin are presented, and a comparative review is made of More's use of the predicate—and also its use in texts contemporaneous to More, as well as in Late and Medieval Latin—in both prose and poetry. The analysis shows that he works within a general framework of classicism, although he introduces some of his own idiosyncrasies, these essentially relating to the meaning of the verb that he employs in a preferential way and to the variety of verbal forms that occur in his poetic text.

AGENT AND EXPERIENCER IN PUDARNYA PESONA CLEOPATRA NOVEL BY HABIBURRAHMAN EL SHIRAZY: A STUDY OF SEMANTIC ROLE

CALL ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Myrna Nur Sakinah ◽  
Khaerunnisa Siti Latifah ◽  
Jenny Rahmi Nuraeni
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Semantic Role ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Participant Roles

This research purposes at describing the roles of semantic study precisely the roles of agent and experiencer in Pudarnya Pesona Cleopatra novel written by Habiburrahman El Shirazy. The research conducted by the writer is qualitative research. The data of this study are agent and experiencer roles that the data source is taken from Pudarnya Pesona Cleopatra novel written by Habiburrahman El Shirazy published in 2003. The method that is used by the writer to collect the data is documentation with the steps: (1) figure out the sentences that contain agent and experiencer in that novel, (2) classify the types of sentences by investigating the novel. In analyzing data, the writer used Saeed’s theory of participant roles for the major theory. The result of this study shows that there are seventeen patterns that are classified into two roles. They are ten sentences of the agent and seven sentences of the experiencer.Keywords: Semantic, Participant Roles, Agent, Experiencer 

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