Discourse Representation Structures (DRSs) are a meaning representation formalism based on Discourse Representation Theory (Kamp and Reyle, 1993). They are in some respects similar to Abstract Meaning Representations (AMR, Banarescu et al., 2013), but...

am 23.04.2019, 16:00

Ambiguity, as is well known, can be exploited to create humour. However, ambiguity in itself is not a sufficient notion to explain why certain sentences with ambiguous words make us laugh. Based on witty uses of modal verbs in the television series...

am 07.05.2019, 16:00

Nominal uses of verbs, like English gerunds ([Raking leaves] was fun) or Italian nominalized infinitives, like (1a) (nominal infinitive) and (1b) (bare nominal infinitives) in (1): (1) a. Il suo partire senza salutarmi mi ha offeso. the his leave-inf...

am 21.05.2019, 16:00

Durch ihr besonderes Verhalten haben psychologische Verben, und Experiencer-Objekt-Verben im Besonderen, in der linguistischen Forschung Berühmtheit erlangt. In vielen Sprachen konnte beobachtet werden, dass das Verhalten dieser Verben oft von...

am 04.06.2019, 16:00

According to the dominant neo-Carlsonian approach to bare NP semantics, bare NPs start out their lives as properties and can be shifted – as needed – to kinds, individuals, or existential quantifiers. This approach has proved to be too powerful...

am 18.06.2019, 16:00