Towards an Analysis of Complex Motion Event Packaging in South Eastern Huastec (Maya, Mexico)
CogniTextes, 2015 This paper presents an underdescribed way of encoding the Path component of complex motion events in South Eastern Huastec (HSF), a Mayan language spoken in Mexico.
Ana Kondic
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Problems of methodology and explanation in word order universals research [PDF]
, 2010 Ever since the publication of Greenberg 1963, word order typologists have attempted to formulate and refine implicational universals of word order so as to characterize the restricted distribution of certain word order patterns, and in some cases have ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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The nanosyntax of Hungarian postpositions [PDF]
, 2009 This article considers evidence for a Nanosyntactic approach to language from Hungarian PPs. Hungarian postpositions can be divided into classes: those which take a complement without morphologically visible case (dressed postpositions), and those ...
Dékány, Éva
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A microparametric approach on goal of motion constructions : properties of adpositional systems in Romance and Germanic [PDF]
, 2010 This paper explores the idea that the properties of adpositional systems can suffice to explain the Talmian distinction between satellite and verb framed languages.
Real Puigdollers, Cristina +1 more
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A Survey of Word Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation: Computational Models and Language Phenomena [PDF]
, 2016 Word reordering is one of the most difficult aspects of statistical machine translation (SMT), and an important factor of its quality and efficiency. Despite the vast amount of research published to date, the interest of the community in this problem has
Bisazza, Arianna, Federico, Marcello
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The Natural Semantic Metalanguage of Old English Compound Adpositions [PDF]
, 2009 Este artículo se centra en el estudio del contenido léxico de una serie de adposiciones complejas en inglés antiguo y los procesos semánticos que las han originado.
Guarddon Anelo, Carmen
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Saramaccan, a very mixed language: Systematicity in the distribution of function words? [PDF]
Linguística, 2012 Saramaccan is the descendant of a mixed creole language formerly spoken on Portuguese Jewish-owned plantations in Surinam, South America. Its mixed nature reveals itself in roughly equal numbers of monomorphemic English-derived and Portuguese-derived ...
Norval Smith
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The goal-over-source asymmetry in Thai and Korean
Language and CognitionThai and Korean have large inventories of adpositional particles, including source and goal markers. As reported in many languages, Thai and Korean adpositions also prominently exhibit the ‘goal-over-source asymmetry’ at multiple levels.
Kultida Khammee, Seongha Rhee
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Instrumental prepositions and case: Contexts of occurrence and alternations with datives
Glossa, 2017 We will argue that instrumentals are the mirror image of dative/genitive obliques. We propose that both sets of adpositions/cases are elementary predicates, expressing a zonal inclusion (part-whole/possession relation); instrumentals reverse the ...
Ludovico Franco, Maria Rita Manzini
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Lexis as most local context: towards an SFL approach to lexicology [PDF]
, 2017 The world of lexis is vast and complex and it is generally accepted in psycholinguistics that it is represented as part of a large complex network. However, in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) modelling lexis has remained a relatively underdeveloped
Fontaine, Lise M.
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