Thomas Wasow

Also published as: Tom Wasow


2019

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Priming vs. Inhibition of Optional Infinitival “to”
Robin Melnick | Thomas Wasow
Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics

The word “to” that precedes verbs in English infinitives is optional in at least two environments: in what Wasow et al. (2015) previously called the “do-be” construction, and in the complement of “help”, which we explore in the present work. In the “do-be” construction, Wasow et al. found that a preceding infinitival “to” increases the use of following optional “to”, but the use of “to” in the complement of help is reduced following “to help”. We examine two hypotheses regarding why the same function word is primed by prior use in one construction and inhibited in another. We then test predictions made by the two hypotheses, finding support for one of them.

2004

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Animacy Encoding in English: Why and How
Annie Zaenen | Jean Carletta | Gregory Garretson | Joan Bresnan | Andrew Koontz-Garboden | Tatiana Nikitina | M. Catherine O’Connor | Tom Wasow
Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse Annotation

1985

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Structure-Sharing in Lexical Representation
Daniel Flickinger | Carl Pollard | Thomas Wasow
23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1982

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Processing English With a Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
Jean Mark Gawron | Jonathan King | John Lamping | Egon Loebner | E. Anne Paulson | Geoffrey K. Pullum | Ivan A. Sag | Thomas Wasow
20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1978

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Remarks on Processing, Constraints, and the Lexicon
Thomas Wasow
American Journal of Computational Linguistics (December 1978)

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Remarks on Processing, Constraints, and the Lexicon
Thomas Wasow
Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing-2