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The indigenization of Ghanaian Pidgin English
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 182-202, March 2024.Abstract In the world Englishes literature, ‘indigenization’ is shorthand for the localization of Outer Circle Englishes in former exploitation colonies like Ghana. However, the localization of Ghanaian English has been continually reversed by ‘corrective’ realignment with world standard English through institutional regimes.
Kofi Yakpo
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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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Un modèle pour l’alternance de langue sous la contrainte d’équivalence [PDF]
, 1986 Comment peut-on combiner les grammaires de deux langues afin de construire un modèle du comportement des bilingues? Plus spécifiquement, est-ce possible de trouver un modèle de l’alternance de langue qui est soumise à la contrainte d’équivalence sur l ...
Mainville, Sylvie, Sankoff, David
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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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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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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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Sámi dieđalaš áigečálaThe article presents a survey of the syntax and semantics of the postpositions alde ’on’ and ala ’onto’ in North Saami. In previous descriptions of Saami adpositions, the main focus has always been on the concrete spatial meanings of the adpositional ...
Jussi Ylikoski
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Sõnaliik leksikograafi töölaual: sõnaliikide roll tänapäeva leksikograafias
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2020 Sõnaliik on traditsiooniliselt keele kirjelduse osa, mis hõlmab sõna morfoloogilist ja süntaktilist käitumist, aga ka tähendust ning pragmaatilist funktsiooni.
Geda Paulsen, Ene Vainik, Maria Tuulik
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Space and the Vision–Language Interface: A Model-Theoretic Approach
Biolinguistics, 2011 The relation between spatial vision and spatial language has always been a source of controversy. Three problems can be identified as in need of a solution.
Francesco-Alessio Ursini
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Similarity Semantics and Building Probabilistic Semantic Maps from Parallel Texts
Linguistic Discovery, 2010 This paper deals with statistical (non-implicational) semantic maps, built automatically using classical multidimensional scaling from a direct comparison of parallel text data (the Gospel according to Mark) in the domain of motion events (case ...
Bernhard Wälchli
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