published_or_final_version / Linguistics / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

by Angel Suet Yi Tse. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-130). / Abstract / Acknowledgements / Table of Contents / List of Tables / List of Figures / Plagiarism Declaration / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Overview --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Motivation --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Applications of NP parsing --- p.4 / Chapter 1.4 --- The Hybrid Approach of NP Partial Parsing with Rule Set Derived from de NPs --- p.5 / Chapter 1.5 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.7 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Related Work --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1 --- Overview --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- Chinese Versus English Languages --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3 --- Traditional Versus Contemporary Parsing Approaches --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Linguistics-based and Corpus-based Knowledge Acquisition --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Basic Processing Unit --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Related Literature --- p.17 / Chapter 2.4 --- Sentence / Free Text Parsing --- p.18 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Linguistics-based --- p.18 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Corpus-based --- p.21 / Chapter 2.5 --- NP Processing --- p.22 / Chapter 2.5.1 --- NP Detection --- p.22 / Chapter 2.5.2 --- NP Partial Parsing --- p.26 / Chapter 2.6 --- Summary --- p.27 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Knowledge Elicitation for General NP Partial Parsing from De NPs --- p.28 / Chapter 3.1 --- Overview --- p.28 / Chapter 3.2 --- Background --- p.29 / Chapter 3.3 --- Research in De Phrases --- p.33 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Research of de Phrases in Pure Linguistics --- p.33 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Research in de Phrases in Computational Linguistics --- p.36 / Chapter 3.4 --- Significance of De Phrases --- p.37 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Implication to General NP Parsing --- p.37 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Embedded Knowledge for General NP Parsing --- p.37 / Chapter 3.5 --- Summary --- p.39 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Knowledge Acquisition Approaches for General NP Partial Parsing --- p.40 / Chapter 4.1 --- Overview --- p.40 / Chapter 4.2 --- Linguistic-based Approach --- p.41 / Chapter 4.3 --- Corpus-based Approach --- p.43 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Generalization of NP Grammatical Patterns --- p.44 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Pitfall of Generalization --- p.47 / Chapter 4.4 --- The Hybrid Approach --- p.47 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Combining Strategies --- p.50 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Merging Techniques --- p.53 / Chapter 4.5 --- CNP3- The Chinese NP Partial Parser --- p.55 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- The NP Detection and Extraction Unit (DEU) --- p.56 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- The Knowledge Acquisition Unit (KAU) --- p.56 / Chapter 4.5.3 --- The Parsing Unit (PU) --- p.57 / Chapter 4.5.4 --- Internal Representation of Chinese NPs and Grammar Rules --- p.57 / Chapter 4.6 --- Summary --- p.58 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- "Experiments on Linguistics-, Corpus-based and the Hybrid Approaches" --- p.60 / Chapter 5.1 --- Overview --- p.60 / Chapter 5.2 --- Objective of Experiments --- p.61 / Chapter 5.3 --- Experimental Setup --- p.62 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- The Corpora --- p.62 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- The Standard and Extended Tag Sets --- p.64 / Chapter 5.4 --- Overview of Experiments --- p.67 / Chapter 5.5 --- Evaluation of Linguistic De NP Rules (Experiment 1 A) --- p.70 / Chapter 5.5.1 --- Method --- p.71 / Chapter 5.5.2 --- Results --- p.72 / Chapter 5.5.3 --- Analysis --- p.72 / Chapter 5.6 --- Evaluation of Corpus-based Approach (Experiment IB) --- p.74 / Chapter 5.6.1 --- Method --- p.74 / Chapter 5.6.2 --- Results --- p.75 / Chapter 5.6.3 --- Analysis --- p.76 / Chapter 5.6.4 --- Generalization of NP Grammatical Patterns (Experiment 1B'） --- p.76 / Chapter 5.6.5 --- Results after Merging of Rule Sets (Experiment 1C) --- p.77 / Chapter 5.6.6 --- Error Analysis --- p.79 / Chapter 5.7 --- Phase II Evaluation: Test on General NP Parsing (Experiment 2) --- p.82 / Chapter 5.7.1 --- Method --- p.83 / Chapter 5.7.2 --- Results --- p.85 / Chapter 5.7.3 --- Error Analysis --- p.86 / Chapter 5.8 --- Summary --- p.92 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Reliability Evaluation of the Hybrid Approach --- p.94 / Chapter 6.1 --- Overview --- p.94 / Chapter 6.2 --- Objective --- p.95 / Chapter 6.3 --- The Training and Test Corpora --- p.96 / Chapter 6.4 --- The Knowledge Base --- p.98 / Chapter 6.5 --- Convergence Sequence Tests --- p.99 / Chapter 6.5.1 --- Results of Close Convergence Tests --- p.100 / Chapter 6.5.2 --- Results of Open Convergence Tests --- p.104 / Chapter 6.5.3 --- Conclusions with Convergence Tests --- p.106 / Chapter 6.6 --- Cross Evaluation Tests --- p.106 / Chapter 6.6.1 --- Results --- p.109 / Chapter 6.6.2 --- Conclusions with Cross Evaluation Tests --- p.112 / Chapter 6.7 --- Summary --- p.113 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Discussion and Conclusions --- p.115 / Chapter 7.1 --- Overview --- p.115 / Chapter 7.2 --- Difficulties Encountered --- p.116 / Chapter 7.2.1 --- Lack of Standard in Part-of-speech Categorization in Chinese Language --- p.116 / Chapter 7.2.2 --- Under or Over-specification of Tag Class in Tag Set --- p.118 / Chapter 7.2.3 --- Difficulty in Nominal Compound NP Analysis --- p.119 / Chapter 7.3 --- Conclusions --- p.120 / Chapter 7.4 --- Future Work --- p.122 / Chapter 7.4.1 --- Full Automation of NP Pattern Generalization --- p.122 / Chapter 7.4.2 --- Incorporation of Semantic Constraints --- p.123 / Chapter 7.4.3 --- Computational Structural Analysis of Nominal Compound NP --- p.124 / References --- p.126 / Appendix A The Extended Tag Set --- p.131 / Appendix B Linguistic Grammar Rules --- p.135 / Appendix C Generalized Grammar Rules --- p.138

The present thesis aims to use novel observations as to the behaviour of anaphoric 'one' when under modification in order to explore more acutely the structure of the nominal phrase. There has been decades of disagreement as to the syntactic nature of anaphoric 'one'. This work highlights novel observations about anaphoric 'one' and offers structural analyses for them. Anaphoric 'one' behaves in a markedly distinct way when modified by a prenominal modifier versus when it is modified by a postnominal modifier. Specifically the indefinite article, numerals, and certain quantifiers are able to be introduced into the structure of the noun phrase only when anaphoric 'one' is modified prenominally. In such cases that is modified postnominally the introduction of such material is not possible. Rather than appealing to rich featural specifications on syntactic objects by way of explanation this thesis offers an account based upon the structure of the nominal. An obligatory movement operation in the nominal projection is proposed, the result of which produces a structural configuration which limits extraction from the moved constituent. It is the two of these factors working together that produces the pattern of behaviour to be captured. Finally I present phenomena that can be found in Spanish, Dutch, Turkish, and Slovenian which can be easily captured using the structural analysis offered in this work. The suggestion being that all of these languages exhibit not only the same movement operation in the nominal projection, but the same limit on what may be extracted from the moved constituent.

ACette étude vise à apporter des réponses à trois questions fondamentales concernant la construction à verbe support : son identification, sa délimitation d’autres constructions qui partagent la même structure de surface et une révision de sa définition classique. Une fois identifié et défini l’objet d’étude, nous avons inscrit le verbe support dans le cadre théorique de l’emploi (G. Gross, 2012) qui nous a permis de l’aborder sous deux angles différents : l’étude contrastive français-espagnol et la traduction : sans oublier l’approche didactique. / This study aims to provide some answers to three basic questions concerning light verb structures: its identification, delimitation of other combinations that share the same surface structure and a review of its classical definition. Once identified and defined the object of our study, we adopt the linguistic theory of employ (G. Gross 2012), which allows us to approach light verbs from two perspectives: the contrastive study of French-Spanish light verbs and its translation.

Chin Kin-Chung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-201). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abbreviations and Symbols --- p.vi / Abstract (English) --- p.vii / Abstract (Chinese) --- p.viii / Chapter Chapter One --- Characteristics of Compounds: An Overview --- p.1 / Chapter 1.0 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- General Properties of Compounds --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Lexical Properties --- p.4 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- Phrasal Properties --- p.12 / Chapter 1.1.3 --- Complexity of the Status of Compounds --- p.16 / Chapter 1.2 --- Relation between Morphology and Syntax --- p.16 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Lexicalist Approach --- p.18 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Syntactic Approach --- p.19 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Parallel Approach --- p.20 / Chapter 1.2.4 --- A Note on the Lexicon --- p.21 / Chapter 1.3 --- Research Objectives --- p.24 / Chapter 1.4 --- Summary and Organization of the Thesis --- p.29 / Chapter Chapter Two --- "Notions of Word, Compound and Phrase" --- p.31 / Chapter 2.0 --- Introduction --- p.31 / Chapter 2.1 --- Criteria of Wordhood --- p.32 / Chapter 2.2 --- Distinction between Compounds and Phrases --- p.38 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Introduction --- p.39 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Syntactic Aspect --- p.43 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Semantic Aspect --- p.45 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Morphological and Phonological Aspects --- p.48 / Chapter 2.2.5 --- Summary --- p.50 / Chapter 2.3 --- The Lexical Integrity Hypothesis (LIH) --- p.52 / Chapter 2.4 --- Further Consideration on the Nature of Compound --- p.60 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Compounding and Other Combinatory Processes --- p.60 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Status of the Constituents --- p.62 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Degree of Separability --- p.64 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- Definitions of Compounds --- p.66 / Chapter 2.5 --- Summary --- p.69 / Chapter Chapter Three --- Issues on Cantonese Verb-Object Compounds (VOCs) --- p.70 / Chapter 3.0 --- Introduction --- p.70 / Chapter 3.1 --- General Properties of Cantonese VOCs --- p.74 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Meaning --- p.75 / Chapter 3.1.1.1 --- Compositionality of Meaning --- p.75 / Chapter 3.1.1.2 --- Anaphoric Reference --- p.79 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Movement --- p.80 / Chapter 3.1.2.1 --- Topicalization --- p.80 / Chapter 3.1.2.2 --- Passivization --- p.83 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Separability --- p.84 / Chapter 3.1.3.1 --- Semantic Object --- p.85 / Chapter 3.1.3.2 --- Aspect Markers --- p.88 / Chapter 3.1.3.3 --- Duration and Frequency Adverbials --- p.91 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- Status of the Cantonese VOCs --- p.94 / Chapter 3.2 --- Analyses of VOCs --- p.96 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- S.-F. Huang (1984) --- p.96 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- C.-T. Huang (1984) --- p.99 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Paul (1988) --- p.103 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Wang (1994) --- p.105 / Chapter 3.2.5 --- Her (1997) --- p.110 / Chapter 3.3 --- Existence of Two Types of VOCs in Cantonese --- p.113 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Distinction between Lexical and Phrasal VOCs --- p.113 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Diagnostic Tests for the Lexical-Phrasal VOC Distinction --- p.117 / Chapter 3.4 --- Summary --- p.120 / Chapter Chapter Four --- Nature and Formation of Cantonese VOCs --- p.121 / Chapter 4.0 --- Introduction --- p.121 / Chapter 4.1 --- Theoretical Assumptions --- p.123 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Parallel Morphology --- p.123 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Lexical-Semantic and Lexical-Syntactic Representations --- p.134 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Lexical Syntax --- p.139 / Chapter 4.1.4 --- VP Shell --- p.141 / Chapter 4.2 --- Levels of Formation of Cantonese VOCs --- p.143 / Chapter 4.3 --- Mechanism of the Formation Processes --- p.147 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Issue of Transitivity --- p.147 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Formation of Lexical VOCs --- p.154 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Formation of Phrasal VOCs --- p.158 / Chapter 4.4 --- Phenomena in Relation to Cantonese VOCs --- p.161 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Separation of Constituents of Phrasal VOCs --- p.161 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Positions of Aspect Markers --- p.168 / Chapter 4.5 --- Summary and Theoretical Consequences --- p.172 / Chapter Chapter Five --- Concluding Remarks --- p.176 / Endnotes --- p.181 / References --- p.191

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Linguistics / Master / Master of Philosophy

Language production involves two stages of lexical retrieval with a word’s lemma (meaning, syntax) accessed before its lexeme (form). Adult speakers of gendered languages are said to access gender via the lemma (Vigliocco, Antonini and Garrett, 1997). However, presenting gender incongruous distractors during picture naming does not produce interference for Spanish speakers (Costa, Sebastián-Gallés, Miozzo & Caramazza, 1999; O’Rourke, 2007). Spanish demonstrates predictability between determiner gender and noun form: 96.3% of nouns ending in /a/ are feminine, taking the definite determiner la, and 99.87% of nouns ending in /o/ are masculine, preceded by el (Teschner & Russell 1984). Morphophonological regularity might allow Spanish speakers to bypass lemma-level gender. This dissertation addressed the question of whether young children learning Spanish access gender with the lemma of individual words, utilize language-specific morphophonological regularities alone, or use a combination of lexical familiarity and morphophonological regularity. This was tested in an elicited imitation task manipulating lexical status, congruity and gender. Spanish-English bilingual children (2;0-4;0) and Spanish-speaking adults repeated Spanish words and non-words preceded by gender congruous and incongruous definite articles. If children access gender with lemmas, children should omit fewer articles for words vs. non-words in congruous (el libro-them bookm) versus incongruous conditions (la libro-thef bookm). If children use morphophonological patterns, words should show no advantage; however, children should omit fewer feminine than masculine 12 articles in congruous (la f fupa f) versus incongruous conditions (elm fupa f) since feminine is more regular than masculine. Alternately, if lexical familiarity and morphophonological regularity play a role, children should omit fewer articles for words than non-words and fewer feminine than masculine articles in congruous versus incongruous conditions. The results suggest that children, like adults, use both lexical familiarity and morphophonological regularity to produce determiner-stem sequences. Words exerted an influence, but only in processing efficiency while regularity affected patterns for both words and non-words. Unlike adults, for children regularity was preferred over distributional frequency and lexical familiarity was only advantageous if familiar words demonstrated regular feminine morphology. The data suggest that children use language specific input statistics from early in language production and, additionally, provide evidence for developmental processing strategies.

This thesis explores the phrasal verb construction ("get off," "takeover") from a previously unexplored vantage point--that of its frequency and variation in terms of contextual or register constraints. Ten separate discourses were used as the corpus for this study, two in each of fiveterms of percentage per pragmatic context, frequency of particular particles and verbs on each level, and other significant pragmatic criteria.

Th. Ph. D.--Linguistics--Waltham, Mass.--Brandeis university, 1989.

Thesis (M.A.)--Johnson Bible College, Knoxville, Tenn., 2002. / "Tò téleion" appears on t.p. in Greek letters. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-94).