Diacritic Restoration and the Development of a Part-of-Speech Tagset for the Māori Language [PDF]
This thesis investigates two fundamental problems in natural language processing: diacritic restoration and part-of-speech tagging. Over the past three decades, statistical approaches to diacritic restoration and part-of-speech tagging have grown in ...
Cocks, John
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Applications of the experimental Polish-Lithuanian corpus /EkorpPL-LT/ in research on the contemporary Polish language and in theoretical Polish-Lithuanian contrastive studies The experimental Polish-Lithuanian corpus is an extended tool put into ...
Danuta Roszko, Roman Roszko
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Deconstructing English Articles A Construction Grammar Approach To Teaching Articles In English
The semantics of the articles is crucial for their proper usage in L2 speakers. However, we believe that for their proper acquisition a pairing of concrete form and concrete meaning must take place.
Vujic Jelena
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With or without articles? A comparison of article-like determiners in Estonian and Finnish
In this paper, we compare the use and functions of definite and indefinite article-like determiners in Estonian and Finnish. Our main aim is to explore whether the factors that explain the choice of particular determiner forms are similar in Estonian and
Helen Hint +2 more
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This paper is concerned with semantic noun phrase typology, focusing on the question of how to draw fine-grained distinctions necessary for an accurate account of natural language phenomena.
Farkas, Donka F.
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La quantification universelle en trio: tous les, chaque et tout [PDF]
This article revisits the well-known question of the quantification made by chaque, tout and tous les, that express totality or universal quantification, by focusing on a preliminary question: should we group the three quantifiers or not? Most frequently
Georges Kleiber
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A Relative Clause Whose Antecedent Is Determined by the Indefinite Article: Observations on determination, qualification and stabilization of occurrences [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to observe the properties of undetached relative clauses qualifying nouns determined with the indefinite article A in the framework of the theory of enunciative operations. In this framework, determination is seen as a process through which indeterminacy is eliminated and occurrences are stabilised.
Gresset, Stéphane, Mazodier, Catherine
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Possessive Constructions in Egyptian and Coptic. Distribution, definiteness, and the construct state phenomenon [PDF]
In this paper, the distribution of Coptic possessive constructions is defined in terms of syntactic constraints: the construction involving the linking element N- requires the obligatory (and simple) definiteness of the possessed noun as well as the ...
Egedi, Barbara
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Indefinite determiners: Why DE can be enough – Insights from Francoprovençal
Abstract The question we tackle in this paper is why some indefinite nominal expressions are licit in Romance despite the absence of number marking on the determiner and on the noun, an unexpected option in Romance languages, which are number marking languages (Gil 1987).
Ihsane, Tabea +2 more
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Information structure and the referential status of linguistic expression : workshop as part of the 23th annual meetings of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft in Leipzig, Leipzig, February 28 - March 2, 2001 [PDF]
This volume comprises papers that were given at the workshop Information Structure and the Referential Status of Linguistic Expressions, which we organized during the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) Conference in Leipzig in February ...
Heusinger, Klaus von, Schwabe, Kerstin
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