A major goal of the quantitative study of syntax has been to identify factors that have
predictive power on speaker choices in the face of word-order or valence alternations (eg …

Recent trends in natural language processing (NLP) show ever increasing popularity of
dependencybased analysis of natural language texts. Dependency representations offer …

In this paper, we discuss our efforts to annotate nominals in the Hindi Treebank with the
semantic property of animacy. Although the treebank already encodes lexical information at …

This study analyses the relationship between four near-synonymous Swedish prepositions,
namely angående, beträffande, gällande and rörande, which are used to establish what we …

In French, postverbal constituents are relatively freely ordered: the verb has a fixed position
and, after it, the ordering of the constituents is generally considered to be fairly flexible …

This paper is about two competing marking strategies for contrastive topics in a topic shift
context in French: emphatic pronouns and contrastive adverbs. We analyse the choice …

Dans cet article, nous étudions l'ordre des compléments postverbaux en français, à travers
un corpus de 956 phrases extraites du French Tree Bank, de l'Est-Républicain et d'ESTER …

In this paper we present the annotation scheme and parser results of the animacy feature in
Russian and Arabic, two morphologicallyrich languages, in the spirit of the universal …

In French, postverbal constituents are relatively freely ordered: the verb has a fixed position
and, after it, the ordering of the constituents is generally considered to be fairly flexible …