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Word order in the Old Italian DP [PDF]
In this article I examine the impact of a cartographic approach on research about diachronic change and investigate the internal structure of the DP in Old Italian (OI).
Poletto, Cecilia
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Language Acquisition in Computers [PDF]
This project explores the nature of language acquisition in computers, guided by techniques similar to those used in children. While existing natural language processing methods are limited in scope and understanding, our system aims to gain an ...
Belzner, Megan +2 more
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Cem Şişkolar, `Common Nouns and Rigidity`The principal question addressed is whether there is a division among commonnouns which is similar to a familiar division among noun phrases that designateparticular-level individuals: the one which is captured in the relevant literatureas the difference between de jure rigid and not de jure rigid singular terms.
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An Experiment on Learning Appropriate Selectional Restrictions from a Parsed Corpus
We present a methodology to extract Selectional Restrictions at a variable level of abstraction from phrasally analyzed corpora. The method relays in the use of a wide-coverage noun taxonomy and a statistical measure of the co-occurrence of linguistic ...
Ribas, Francesc
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What Can Be Changed Through Contact? Possessive Syntax in Megleno-Romanian and Eolian Compared
This article explores the order of possessives with respect to nouns in Megleno-Romanian, a branch of Daco-Romance, and Eolian, a variety of southern Italo-Romance.
Sara N. Cardullo, Ștefania Costea
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BNC! Handle with care! Spelling and tagging errors in the BNC [PDF]
"You loose your no-claims bonus," instead of "You lose your no-claims bonus," is an example of a real-word spelling error. One way to enable a spellchecker to detect such errors is to prime it with information about likely features of the context for ...
Hardcastle, David +2 more
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A process model of children's early verb use [PDF]
The verb-island hypothesis (Tomasello, 1992) states that children’s early grammars consist of sets of lexically-specific predicate structures (or verb-islands).
Gobet, F, Jones, G, Pine, J M
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Adjective positioning in French
The focus of this study is to trace the positionings of adjectives in French throughout time. Historical linguists claim that the most common position for adjectives in Old French and Middle French was pre-nominal (before the noun) but today, the most ...
Arielle Roadman
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Frequency Value Grammar and Information Theory [PDF]
I previously laid the groundwork for Frequency Value Grammar (FVG) in papers I submitted in the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Science (2003), Sydney Australia, and Corpus Linguistics Conference (2003), Lancaster, UK. FVG is
Stepak, Asa M
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