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MandenkanWhile a number of Mende grammars have been written (Aginsky 1935; Innes 1967; Spears 1967; Brown 1982), there is no systematic treatment of its adpositional system.
Jason Smith
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Sociolinguistic Typology Meets Historical Corpus Linguistics
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 546-567, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper makes the case for using historical corpora to assess questions of sociolinguistic typology. A full account of any contact‐induced change will need to establish what the linguistic innovation in question was, who was in contact, where and when the contact took place and how the change happened, both at the individual level and at ...
George Walkden +5 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 513-545, November 2023., 2023 Abstract When linguists make inferences about language contact, control data is required for reliable analysis. Historical data or reconstructions are typically used for that purpose. However, historical data is globally mostly unavailable, and reconstructions are laborious if comparing outcomes of language contact in a typological way.
Kaius Sinnemäki, Noora Ahola
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BERTuit: Understanding Spanish language in Twitter with transformers
Expert Systems, Volume 40, Issue 9, November 2023., 2023 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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Language patterns in Japanese patients with Alzheimer disease: A machine learning approach
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Volume 77, Issue 5, Page 273-281, May 2023., 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.
Yuki Momota +8 more
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Directionality and Resultativity: The Cross-linguistic Correlation Revisited
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 Recent approaches to the cross-linguistic variation in the expressions of directed motion assume a tight correlation between adjectival resultative and directed motion constructions (e.g., Beck and Snyder 2001, Mateu and Rigau 2001; 2002, McIntyre 2004 ...
Minjeong Son
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Adpositions and presuppositions [PDF]
SpringerPlus, 2016 This paper looks at presuppositions of adpositions, a topic which has not been examined much, in spite of the very large body of work on presuppositions. Some earlier assertions about adpositional presuppositions turn out not to be relevant, because (1) they are incorrect (2) presuppose and/or presupposition are not used in a technical sense in them ...
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An auxiliary Part‐of‐Speech tagger for blog and microblog cyber‐slang
Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: The ASA Data Science Journal, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 65-79, February 2023., 2023 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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Body-part adpositions in Gaahmg--Grammaticalized forms with person-marker vowels
Studies in African Linguistics, 2014 Many African languages employ body parts as adpositions (Heine 1989), the general pattern in Gaahmg, with one locative postposition perhaps derived from ‘vagina’.
Timothy M. Stirtz
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On the syntax of comitative constructions: the case of Finnish mukana, mukaan ‘with, along’
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 The topic of this article is the syntax of Finnish comitative markers mukana and mukaan ‘with, along’. Comitative markers express accompaniment relations, which are typically conceived of being asymmetrical: the accompanee is the predominant participant,
Krista Ojutkangas
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