Sous la direction de Xavier Blanco, Pierre-André Buvet et Zoé Gavriilidou
The contributions brought together in this volume represent the state-of-the-art in the study of determiners, which finds itself in the intersection of such fields as theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and logic. The articles provide original viewpoints on determination, and bring… read more
A satisfactory description of the predicates from the theoretical point of view is necessary when elaborating electronic dictionaries meant for natural language processing. We focus on the methodology and descriptors we use within the framework of the classes of objects. At the same time, we put… read more
We present an inventory of grammatical meanings that can be expressed by support verbs. These meanings concern basically the quantification, the aspects and several types of relationships between enunciation and utterance. We argue for the usefulness of such a description in automatic translation… read more
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The aim of this paper is to study possessive determiners in French when they are used with nouns that are predicates in support verb constructions. We distinguish two situations: the possessive refers either to the first or to the second argument of the predicate. We show that in… read more
Summary We use the Web as a corpus to validate and extend linguistic descriptions of lexical classes, that are homogeneous from a semantic point of view. We put the emphasis, here, on a 10000-noun class : þprofessionþ.
French nouns like heure (hour), série (series) or soupçon (hint) can be described as nominal determiners in NI de N2 sequences, as in: une heure de cheval (an hour's horse-riding) une série d'interviews (a series of interviews) un soupçon de jalousie (a hint of jalousy) This article deals with the… read more
