In Korean terminologies, adjectival terms are rare, and the meaning and function associated with adjectives in Indo-European languages are often realized instead in noun form However, the rarer adjectival terms are, the more they are used in restrictive and repetitive ways in specialized domains Thus, it is important to distinguish the different senses of these terms In t..
Ontology is an indispensable component in intelligent and semantic processing of knowledge and information, such as in semantic web However, ontology construction requires vast amount of data collection and arduous efforts in processing these un-structured data This study proposed a methodology to automatically construct and generate ontologies from Sejong Electronic Di..
Lakoff (1986) claim that sequential reading alone suffices to sanction ATB violations cannot be supported in Korean verbal coordination of TP, since extraction from the conjunction of TP in Korean is impossible regardless of whether the conjuncts are interpreted sequentially or non-sequentially However, ATB violations are allowed in the coordination of Non-TP, only wh..
This paper proposes an informational approach to the dative alternation in English following up on the Stochastic Optimality-Theoretic (OT) model by Bresnan and Nikitina (2003) While Bresnan and Nikitina`s stochastic OT model resolves the crucial problem of ``gradience`` unavoidably implicated in variation phenomena by applying the notion of probability to linguistic..
In this paper I propose the semantics of two modality markers in Korean, keyss and (u)l kes I compare the two modality markers with respect to some properties First, keyss is used to express logical necessity while (u)l kes can be used to express a simple prediction as well Second, keyss expresses some logical conclusion from the speaker`s own information state without claim..
This study aims to discuss the word sense distinction of Korean middle verbs for restructuring KorLexVerb 10 Despite the duality of its meaning and syntactic structure, the word senses of middle verb are not clearly distinguished in current dictionaries The underspecification causes very often mismatches that a same Korean word sense is used for two different English verb..
Application of chunking to English and some other European languages has shown that it is a viable parsing mechanism for natural languages Although a small number of attempts have been made to apply chunking to the analysis of the Korean language, it still is not clear enough what criteria there are to identify appropriate units of chunking, and how efficient and valid the c..
This paper discusses the distribution of a null complementizer C, as opposed to an overt counterpart ``that``, presenting empirical support both for and against the PF-merge analysis of C proposed by Boscovic and Lasnik (2003, henceafter B&L) who in turn attribute to the proposal in Pesetsky (1992) and Halle & Marantz (1993) In Section I, as a background, I discuss B&L`s..
This study aims at investigating the ``verb-second`` phenomena indicated in complex sentences of medieval Spanish Especially, when the complex sentence is composed of a preposed adverbial clause and its succeeding main clause, the subject inversion is noticeable in the latter The fundamental motive of this type of inversion is due to the ``verb-second`` structure, in whic..
The impersonal or psyc-predicate construction in Old English (=OE) poses a special challenge for most case theories in generative linguistics In the OE impersonal construction, the experiencer argument is marked by dative, accusative, or nominative, whereas the theme is marked by nominative, genitive, or accusative, or by a PP The combinations of possible cases for expe..
In this paper I investigate whether Korean-speaking children know the basic meaning of reciprocal anaphors like each other I further examine whether they have knowledge of subtle differences in the interpretations of such anaphors depending on the two types of verbs Fiengo and Lasnik (1973) pointed out a contrast between reciprocal sentences with active verbs and stative ..