A presente dissertação tem por objetivo geral analisar como a estrutura de construções que apresentam predicação complexa (PC) no Português Brasileiro (PB) é representada pela perspectiva tradicional e pela perspectiva gerativa, de modo a verificar a existência de padrões nessas construções. Neste trabalho, entendemos por PC a atribuição de propriedades a um mesmo constituinte por predicados diferentes. No primeiro capítulo, apresentamos a representação dessas estruturas à luz da abordagem tradicional, em que são tratadas como predicados verbo-nominais ou como orações reduzidas de infinitivo, particípio e de gerúndio. Nesse capítulo, também discutimos a ambiguidade entre predicativo do objeto e adjunto adnominal, assim como a possibilidade de predicativos do objeto indireto. No segundo capítulo, apresentamos a análise segundo a perspectiva gerativa, mais precisamente, de acordo com a Teoria de Princípios e Parâmetros, em que essas construções não são representadas como orações propriamente ditas, mas sim como small clauses (SCs). Ainda nesse capítulo, revisamos a proposta de Williams (1983, 1994) sobre as SCs e propomos que a projeção da SC seja dominada por AgrP. No terceiro capítulo, a partir da revisão das abordagens tradicional e gerativa, concluímos este trabalho com o estabelecimento de 18 possibilidades de estruturas com PC no PB. / This dissertation aims to analyze how the structure of constructions which present complex predication (CP) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is represented by the traditional perspective and by the generative perspective, in order to verify the existence of patterns of these constructions. In this study, CP is understood as the attribution of properties to a same constituent by different predicates. In the first chapter, we present how these structures are represented by the traditional approach, which treats them as noun-verb predicates or as reduced clauses of infinitive, participle and gerund. This chapter also discusses the ambiguity between object predicative and noun phrases, as well as the possibility of indirect object predicatives. In the second chapter, we present an analysis according to the generative perspective, particularly according to the Theory of Principles and Parameters, in which these constructions are not represented as clauses, but rather as small clauses (SCs). Also in this chapter, we revise Williams’ (1983, 1994) proposal on SCs and propose that the projection of the SC is ruled by AgrP. In the third chapter, based on the revision of traditional and generative approaches, we conclude this dissertation with the establishment of 18 possibilities of structures with CP in BP.

A presente dissertação tem por objetivo geral analisar como a estrutura de construções que apresentam predicação complexa (PC) no Português Brasileiro (PB) é representada pela perspectiva tradicional e pela perspectiva gerativa, de modo a verificar a existência de padrões nessas construções. Neste trabalho, entendemos por PC a atribuição de propriedades a um mesmo constituinte por predicados diferentes. No primeiro capítulo, apresentamos a representação dessas estruturas à luz da abordagem tradicional, em que são tratadas como predicados verbo-nominais ou como orações reduzidas de infinitivo, particípio e de gerúndio. Nesse capítulo, também discutimos a ambiguidade entre predicativo do objeto e adjunto adnominal, assim como a possibilidade de predicativos do objeto indireto. No segundo capítulo, apresentamos a análise segundo a perspectiva gerativa, mais precisamente, de acordo com a Teoria de Princípios e Parâmetros, em que essas construções não são representadas como orações propriamente ditas, mas sim como small clauses (SCs). Ainda nesse capítulo, revisamos a proposta de Williams (1983, 1994) sobre as SCs e propomos que a projeção da SC seja dominada por AgrP. No terceiro capítulo, a partir da revisão das abordagens tradicional e gerativa, concluímos este trabalho com o estabelecimento de 18 possibilidades de estruturas com PC no PB. / This dissertation aims to analyze how the structure of constructions which present complex predication (CP) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is represented by the traditional perspective and by the generative perspective, in order to verify the existence of patterns of these constructions. In this study, CP is understood as the attribution of properties to a same constituent by different predicates. In the first chapter, we present how these structures are represented by the traditional approach, which treats them as noun-verb predicates or as reduced clauses of infinitive, participle and gerund. This chapter also discusses the ambiguity between object predicative and noun phrases, as well as the possibility of indirect object predicatives. In the second chapter, we present an analysis according to the generative perspective, particularly according to the Theory of Principles and Parameters, in which these constructions are not represented as clauses, but rather as small clauses (SCs). Also in this chapter, we revise Williams’ (1983, 1994) proposal on SCs and propose that the projection of the SC is ruled by AgrP. In the third chapter, based on the revision of traditional and generative approaches, we conclude this dissertation with the establishment of 18 possibilities of structures with CP in BP.

A presente dissertação tem por objetivo geral analisar como a estrutura de construções que apresentam predicação complexa (PC) no Português Brasileiro (PB) é representada pela perspectiva tradicional e pela perspectiva gerativa, de modo a verificar a existência de padrões nessas construções. Neste trabalho, entendemos por PC a atribuição de propriedades a um mesmo constituinte por predicados diferentes. No primeiro capítulo, apresentamos a representação dessas estruturas à luz da abordagem tradicional, em que são tratadas como predicados verbo-nominais ou como orações reduzidas de infinitivo, particípio e de gerúndio. Nesse capítulo, também discutimos a ambiguidade entre predicativo do objeto e adjunto adnominal, assim como a possibilidade de predicativos do objeto indireto. No segundo capítulo, apresentamos a análise segundo a perspectiva gerativa, mais precisamente, de acordo com a Teoria de Princípios e Parâmetros, em que essas construções não são representadas como orações propriamente ditas, mas sim como small clauses (SCs). Ainda nesse capítulo, revisamos a proposta de Williams (1983, 1994) sobre as SCs e propomos que a projeção da SC seja dominada por AgrP. No terceiro capítulo, a partir da revisão das abordagens tradicional e gerativa, concluímos este trabalho com o estabelecimento de 18 possibilidades de estruturas com PC no PB. / This dissertation aims to analyze how the structure of constructions which present complex predication (CP) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is represented by the traditional perspective and by the generative perspective, in order to verify the existence of patterns of these constructions. In this study, CP is understood as the attribution of properties to a same constituent by different predicates. In the first chapter, we present how these structures are represented by the traditional approach, which treats them as noun-verb predicates or as reduced clauses of infinitive, participle and gerund. This chapter also discusses the ambiguity between object predicative and noun phrases, as well as the possibility of indirect object predicatives. In the second chapter, we present an analysis according to the generative perspective, particularly according to the Theory of Principles and Parameters, in which these constructions are not represented as clauses, but rather as small clauses (SCs). Also in this chapter, we revise Williams’ (1983, 1994) proposal on SCs and propose that the projection of the SC is ruled by AgrP. In the third chapter, based on the revision of traditional and generative approaches, we conclude this dissertation with the establishment of 18 possibilities of structures with CP in BP.

We are living within the age of information. The ever increasing flow of data and publications poses a monumental bottleneck to scientific progress as despite the amazing abilities of the human mind, it is woefully inadequate in processing such a vast quantity of multidimensional information. The small bits of flotsam and jetsam that we leverage belies the amount of useful information beneath the surface. It is imperative that automated tools exist to better search, retrieve, and summarize this content. Combinations of document indexing and search engines can quickly find you a document whose content best matches your query - if the information is all contained within a single document. But it doesn’t draw connections, make hypotheses, or find knowledge hidden across multiple documents. Literature-based discovery is an approach that can uncover hidden interrelationships between topics by extracting information from existing published scientific literature. The proposed study utilizes a semantic-based approach that builds a graph of related concepts between two user specified sets of topics using semantic predications. In addition, the study includes properties of bibliographically related documents and statistical properties of concepts to further enhance the quality of the proposed intermediate terms. Our results show an improvement in precision-recall when incorporating citations.

The current study investigates how locative clauses and existential constructions are realized and differentiated in the language of Khowar [ISO 693–3: khw] (Hindu Kush Indo-Aryan, HKIA). Khowar is one of several under-researched languages in the Hindu Kush, and as of yet there is no comprehensive description of its linguistic structure. The data for this study was provided by Afsar Ali Khan (local linguist and native speaker of Khowar), in the form of a collection of transcribed traditional Khowar stories, told by speakers in the community. Samples of locative clauses and existential constructions were collected from the corpus, mainly by use of the concordance tool of Toolbox, after which an analysis was carried out. The results show that word order is the main strategy for differentiating locational-existential constructions and locative clauses in Khowar, that semantically bleached posture verbs are not a present strategy for creating locative clauses nor existential constructions, and that there are certain story-opening sequences with existential constructions that are typical of the genre represented by the data. Future research is suggested to focus on negative existentials in Khowar, the full distributional pattern of the actual and inferential copula in other types of non-verbal predication, and the extended use of the 3rd person singular past tense form of the actual copula, ɔʃɔj, which is no longer sensitive to the animacy distinction otherwise present in the Khowar verbal system.

This MA thesis aims at describing the Czech counterparts to the English copular verbs of sensory perception, presupposing lexical differences due to the unequeal size of the repertoire available to each of the languages. After discussing the approaches of the major grammars of English to copular verbs, the MA thesis analyses the translation equivalents excerpted from the English-Czech section of the multilingual corpus InterCorp. The final set of translation pairs comprises 217 examples, with 50 examples of copular clauses with look, feel, smell, sound and 17 sentences with the predicate taste. The analysis, divided into sections investigating each copula individually, shows that the prevailing means of translating an English copular predication of perception are lexical verbs (in 78% of occurrences), most frequently followed by an adverbial (in 72% of occurrences). In particular, the most usual translation was an intransitive verb followed by an adverb. Verbs with a complementation comprise a low number of occurrences. Similarly, fusion appeared very rarely (usually with the copula feel). Czech copular verbs as counterparts of the English copulas of perception occurred only in the imperfective aspect (být) comprising 9% of all counterparts. Comparing the languages revealed that Czech copulas are...

(in English): The objective of the thesis is to give a definition of passive perspective and to describe how passive perspective can be expressed in modern French. Follows an analysis of French passive constructions in different types of texts from various communicative fields. As the thesis reveals, the expression of passive perspective in modern French is not limited to periphrastic passive. Passive perspective can be expressed also by reflexive passive, secondary passive constructions se faire, se laisser and se voir and by nominal passive. The analysis showed that these means of expression of passive perspective can be found in both journalistic and specialized texts.

<p>This survey focuses on the omissible constituents of a sentence, which not only relate to the verb but also describe the subject or object. In a sentence analysis, they cannot be determined by the syntactic structure alone, but need an additional semantic approach. These units are commonly used, but so far have been insufficiently described in grammars and research literature, although the understanding of the function of these units is necessary in order to be able to make a complete sentence analysis. Further, there is no consensus regarding terminology and classification. The term depictive secondary predication is commonly used in English, and the terms <i>prädikatives Attribut, freies Prädikativ </i>and <i>Koprädikativ</i> are the most widely used terms in German. In this study, the term <i>freies Prädikativ</i> (FP) is used. The classification of these constituents in the literature varies between FP, adverbials and in some cases attributes.</p><p>Based on the information available in German grammars and mainly German research literature, a model was developed, which makes it possible to distinguish FP from adverbials and attributes. A corpus containing German novels and newspapers was analysed in the light of this model. The controlled sentences of grammar books and research literature almost always use adjectives as examples of FP. This study shows that FP can be found in all types of phrases like adjective phrases, participle constructions, als- phrases and prepositional phrases. In addition, it is shown that FP occur with all types of verbs.</p>

La présente recherche traite des constructions participiales en –ing de l’anglais contemporain. Elle s’appuie sur un corpus de plus de 1700 occurrences de participiales issues de romans et d’articles de journaux, ainsi que sur le British National Corpus et le Corpus of Contemporary American English. Les participiales ont pour caractéristique majeure ne pas expliciter les liens syntaxiques et sémantiques qui les unissent à la proposition dont elles dépendent. Pour expliquer les fondements linguistiques de cette propriété, la recherche établit une typologie détaillée des participiales, étudie les relations qu’elles entretiennent avec leur sujet, ainsi que la nature de l’incidence et de la prédication qui les caractérisent, et détaille les interprétations sémantiques qu’elles peuvent recevoir. Elle montre que la valeur sémantique basique des participiales est la circonstance concomitante, soit un simple lien établi entre deux procès qui forment une unité dans l’esprit de l’énonciateur. Ce sont les traits spécifiques du co- et du contexte qui peuvent modifier cette valeur basique pour déboucher sur l’interprétation finale, adverbiale ou adjectivale, de la participiale. La recherche propose, dans le cadre de la psychosystématique de Gustave Guillaume, des hypothèses susceptibles d’expliquer le comportement syntaxique et sémantique des participiales ; elle montre qu’il est directement lié au sens du participe présent, dont il est postulé que l’incidence est interne et qu’il code la simultanéité et l’imperfectif dans tous ses emplois. / This research deals with –ing participle clauses in contemporary English. It is based on a corpus totalling over 1,700 participle clauses collected from novels and newspaper articles, and it also relies on data from electronic corpora – the British National Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The main characteristic of –ing participle clauses is that they lack an explicit syntactic and semantic link to their superordinate clause: to shed light on the linguistic phenomena accounting for this specificity, the research establishes a detailed typology of –ing clauses, studies their relationship to their subjects, investigates the specific nature of their incidence and predication, and provides a detailed analysis of their semantic indeterminacy. It shows that their basic semantic value is one of attendant circumstance – a mere link between two events or states that form a unit in the speaker’s mind. The characteristics of the co- and context may alter this basic value to give the clause its final (adjectival or adverbial) meaning. The research puts forward hypotheses to account for the syntactic and semantic characteristics of –ing participle clauses within the framework of Gustave Guillaume’s psychosystematic theory: it shows the syntactic and semantic behaviour of –ing clauses can be directly traced back to the meaning of the –ing participle, which, it is hypothesised, has an internal incidence and expresses simultaneity and imperfectivity in all of its uses.

This survey focuses on the omissible constituents of a sentence, which not only relate to the verb but also describe the subject or object. In a sentence analysis, they cannot be determined by the syntactic structure alone, but need an additional semantic approach. These units are commonly used, but so far have been insufficiently described in grammars and research literature, although the understanding of the function of these units is necessary in order to be able to make a complete sentence analysis. Further, there is no consensus regarding terminology and classification. The term depictive secondary predication is commonly used in English, and the terms prädikatives Attribut, freies Prädikativ and Koprädikativ are the most widely used terms in German. In this study, the term freies Prädikativ (FP) is used. The classification of these constituents in the literature varies between FP, adverbials and in some cases attributes. Based on the information available in German grammars and mainly German research literature, a model was developed, which makes it possible to distinguish FP from adverbials and attributes. A corpus containing German novels and newspapers was analysed in the light of this model. The controlled sentences of grammar books and research literature almost always use adjectives as examples of FP. This study shows that FP can be found in all types of phrases like adjective phrases, participle constructions, als- phrases and prepositional phrases. In addition, it is shown that FP occur with all types of verbs.