The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

In his analysis of action sentences, Donald Davidson drew a clear distinction between arguments and adjuncts. Neglecting temporal relations, sentences like 

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We bought your slippers in Marrakesh.

Severing the External Argument from its Verb

Rules and Representations

This paper investigates the ability of artificial neural networks to judge the grammatical acceptability of a sentence, with the goal of testing their linguistic competence. We introduce the Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability (CoLA), a set of 10,657 English sentences labeled as grammatical or ungrammatical from published linguistics literature. As baselines, we train several recurrent neural network models on acceptability classification, and find that our models outperform unsupervised models by Lau et al. (2016) on CoLA. Error-analysis on specific grammatical phenomena reveals that both Lau et al.’s models and ours learn systematic generalizations like subject-verb-object order. However, all models we test perform far below human level on a wide range of grammatical constructions.

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Neural Network Acceptability Judgments

The structure of the Japanese language

Object Shift in Double Object Constructions and the Theory of Case

Merge(X,Y) = {X,Y}

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1993.

Chris Collins

Papers

Object Shift in Double Object Constructions and the Theory of Case

Merge(X,Y) = {X,Y}

Topics in Ewe syntax

Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory

Economy Conditions in Syntax