Kyle Wade Grove
Department of LinguisticsCornell University
email: kwg33 "at" name-of-school "dot" edu
office: Morrill Hall,Computational Linguistics Lab
Kyle Wade GroveDepartment of LinguisticsCornell University email: kwg33 "at" name-of-school "dot" edu office: Morrill Hall,Computational Linguistics Lab |
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ActivitiesCompetence, Processing, and Computation of: Semantics, Syntax of the vP shell, Causatives, Unaccusatives and Unergatives, Ergative languages. I have been working with John Hale on formalizing event structure for unaccusatives, unergatives, and directed motion constructions, and the implications this could have for explicating the processing difficulty of many garden-path constructions. I have been classifying types of causation and transitivization, and how these types can be classified aspectually and thematically.I have been examining the processing assymmetry, first reported by Stevenson and Merlo (1997): Unergative reduced relatives:"The horse raced past the barn fell"-DIFFICULT Unaccusative reduced relatives:"The cookies baked in the oven have burnt". -EASY My account is that the unaccusative case is the standard reduced relative, and that the unergative case is made difficult by a co-occurence restriction on the PP "past the barn". In the unergative case, the intransitive directed motion construction exhibits an adjunct/argument ambiguity, attested in Zubizaretta and Oh (2007), and others, but the causative case is possible with only an argument attachment of PP. Thus, in the unergative case PP ambiguity compounds the main clause ambiguity. This account avoids appeal to the lexicon and other strategy-based explanations, as the same causative head is implicated in the unaccusative case and in the unergative case (the directed motion construction). My approach to causative morphology and semantics in the grammar is couched within the Distributed Morphology framework and the mildly context sensitive MG formalism (Stabler 1997). I employ the Entropy Reduction Hypothesis (Hale 2006) as a modeling formalism for human sentence processing behavior. |
AchievementsWhy
Unaccusatives Have It Easy: Reduced Relative Garden Path Effects and
Verb Type.
Concordia Verb Concepts, Oct.2-4th. Montreal, CA, Concordia University.
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StatesMG-MCFG
v. 0.8.
A CKY parser written in OCaML, uses the Guillamin compiler to translate
MG to MCFG. 1.0 release to contain derived and derivation tree
LaTeX output, entropy reduction computations.
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