2 papers
cs.CL2025
Interpretable dimensions support an effect of agentivity and telicity on split intransitivity
Eva Neu, Brian Dillon, Katrin Erk
Intransitive verbs fall into two different syntactic classes, unergatives and unaccusatives. It has long been argued that verbs describing an agentive action are more likely to app…
cs.CL2025
The Emergence of Grammar through Reinforcement Learning
Stephen Wechsler, James W. Shearer, Katrin Erk
The evolution of grammatical systems of syntactic and semantic composition is modeled here with a novel application of reinforcement learning theory. To test the functionalist thes…