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The Emergence of Accusative Case in Copala Triqui
This paper argues that the noun ‘body’, the accusative particle, and dative preposition man are synchronically three different parts of speech in modern Copala Triqui.
George Aaron Broadwell
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BERTuit: Understanding Spanish language in Twitter with transformers
Abstract The appearance of complex attention‐based language models such as BERT, RoBERTa or GPT‐3 has allowed to address highly complex tasks in a plethora of scenarios. However, when applied to specific domains, these models encounter considerable difficulties. This is the case of Social Networks such as Twitter, an ever‐changing stream of information
Javier Huertas‐Tato +2 more
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An auxiliary Part‐of‐Speech tagger for blog and microblog cyber‐slang
Abstract The increasing impact of Web 2.0 involves a growing usage of slang, abbreviations, and emphasized words, which limit the performance of traditional natural language processing models. The state‐of‐the‐art Part‐of‐Speech (POS) taggers are often unable to assign a meaningful POS tag to all the words in a Web 2.0 text.
Silvia Golia, Paola Zola
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The Axial Part Phrase in Japanese
In this paper, I investigate the categorial status of spatial terms in locative/directional expressions in Japanese. I will show that a certain class of spatial terms have a distinct categorial status from both regular postpositions and nouns.
Kaori Takamine
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Structural persistence as an explanatory factor in synchrony and diachrony*
Abstract In this paper, we look at examples of linguistic change in which the structure associated with the original element can help us understand aspects of both the diachronic process and the synchronic outcome of change. We first consider a range of phenomena that have resisted formal analysis because they show mixed‐category behaviour.
Kersti Börjars, Tine Breban
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Lähellä-adposition käyttö 1900-luvun alun suomenkielisessä kaunokirjallisuudessa [PDF]
Tämän pro gradu -tutkimukseni aiheena on lähellä-adposition käyttö 1900-luvun alun suomenkielisessä kaunokirjallisuudessa. Tarkoituksenani oli selvittää, millä tavalla, eli millaisissa esiintymissä ja minkälaisten muiden sanojen kanssa lähellä ...
Kanervavuori, Kia
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The Use of Locative Nouns Li, Shang, and Zhong as Mandarin Language Adposition
The purpose of this study was to analyze locative nouns (li, shang, and zhong) that may function as postpositions and therefore Mandarin language considered to have circumposition. The collected data were sentences taken from Chinese short stories by Lu
Ayu Trihardini
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Disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese
In this paper, I focus on disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese. In the literature, disyllabic post-nominal locatives have traditionally been considered nouns. Recent proposals, however, have offered different analyses.
Pei-Jung Kuo
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A Political Economy Approach to the Grammar of Institutions: Theory and Methods
This article proposes a political economy approach to the grammar of institutions, by building on the study of contracts in economics. First, I argue that more attention needs to be paid to the costs and benefits of institutions, thus allowing researchers to derive empirically testable hypotheses on the evolution of institutions. In this vein, the role
Matia Vannoni
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Towards a typology of morphological case
Adposition phrases in morphologically impoverished languages have a function similar to nouns with morphological cases in morphologically rich languages, leading some researchers to argue that at least some cases belong to the category P. The aim of this
Anna Asbury
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