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Case Movement in PPs [PDF]

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007
In this paper, I outline the Peeling theory of Case (Starke 2005) and apply it to Case phenomena in adpositional phrases. The Peeling theory says that DPs are base generated with a number of Case related functional projections on top of them, and when ...
Pavel Caha
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From a spatial adposition to a grammatical relations' marker: contact- and context-induced grammaticalization

open access: yesLähivõrdlusi, 2010
This paper is an investigation of grammatical relations' marking that combines the advances of monolingual analysis with cross-linguistic comparison. It examines adpositions as grammatical relations' markers and the linguistic change which leads to the ...
Leena Kolehmainen
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Are corpus-based predictions mirrored in the preferential choices and ratings of native speakers? Predicting the alternation between the Estonian adessive case and the adposition peal ‘on’ [PDF]

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017
Recent work in usage-based linguistics stresses the importance of combining corpus-based analyses with experimental studies. A number of studies have compared the performance of a corpus-based statistical model against the behaviour of native speakers in
Jane Klavan, Ann Veismann
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Language patterns in Japanese patients with Alzheimer disease: A machine learning approach. [PDF]

open access: yesPsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2023
Aim The authors applied natural language processing and machine learning to explore the disease‐related language patterns that warrant objective measures for assessing language ability in Japanese patients with Alzheimer disease (AD), while most previous studies have used large publicly available data sets in Euro‐American languages.
Momota Y   +8 more
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Event Segmentation in Language and Cognition. [PDF]

open access: yesCogn Sci
Abstract A hallmark of human cognition is the ability to segment streams of dynamic stimuli into discrete event units. Currently, most of the evidence about event segmentation comes from English speakers. Could cross‐linguistic differences in how events are encoded affect how speakers of different languages form cognitive event units?
Lee SH, Ünal E, Papafragou A.
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’Edessä’ olemisen monet merkitykset: Suomen edessä-adposition polysemiaa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Artikkeli tarkastelee suomen kielen edessä-adposition polysemiaa kognitiivisen semantiikan näkökulmasta. Adpositiolla edessä kielennetään perusmerkityksessään spatiaalisia suhteita (talon edessä on omenapuu), mutta sitä käytetään myös yleisesti ...
Teeri-Niknammoghadam, Krista
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Adposition and Case Supersenses v2.6: Guidelines for English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This document offers a detailed linguistic description of SNACS (Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses; Schneider et al., 2018), an inventory of 52 semantic labels ("supersenses") that characterize the use of adpositions and case markers at
Shalev, Adi   +10 more
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Investigating the Components of Word Order in Khorramabad Lori Language [PDF]

open access: yes̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2021
Khorramabad Lori language is one of the languages of southwest of Iran and like other languages it has its own grammatical and typological features. Today, because of the effect of Persian on Lori, as an endangered language, it goes to disappear and this
Fateme Akoondi, Marziye Sanaati
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Factors Influencing the Emergence of Dependency Length Minimization in Neural Agent Simulations [PDF]

open access: yesCogn Sci
Abstract Given various grammatical options, language users prefer the word order choice that reduces the overall length of syntactic dependencies, a principle known as dependency length minimization (DLM). The origins of this preference remain an open question, particularly whether it originates from constraints on efficient information processing ...
Zhang Y   +3 more
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Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Biol Anthropol
Abstract The known languages of the Americas comprise nearly half of the world's language families and a wide range of structural types, a level of diversity that required considerable time to develop. This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other prehistoric research on the ...
Nichols J.
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