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Timothy Osborne
Researcher at Yahoo!
Publications - 4
Citations - 108
Timothy Osborne is an academic researcher from Yahoo!. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dependency grammar & Noun. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 101 citations.
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Catenae: Introducing a Novel Unit of Syntactic Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the catena (Latin for chain; plural catenae) is defined in a dependency-based grammar as a word or a combination of words that is continuous with respect to dominance.
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The 'Do-So'-Diagnostic: Against finite VPs and for flat non-finite VPs
Timothy Osborne,Thomas Gross +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that the distribution of the pro-verb do so can be accurately characterized in terms of the catena, which is a unit of syntactic analysis associated with dependency grammar.
The Dependency Status of Function Words: Auxiliaries
Thomas Gross,Timothy Osborne +1 more
TL;DR: This contribution demonstrates that the traditional approach to the dependency status of auxiliary verbs is motivated by many empirical considerations, and hence USD cannot be viewed as modeling the syntax of natural languages in a plausible way.
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Antecedent Containment: A Dependency Grammar Solution in Terms of Catenae
Timothy Osborne,Thomas Groß +1 more
TL;DR: A new solution to an old problem, the problem of antecedent containment and the infinite regress that it gives rise to is presented, couched in a dependency grammar (DG) framework and is possible by acknowledging DG catenae.