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Ngbugu digital wordlist: A test case for best practices in archiving and presenting language documentation

Linguistic Discovery, 2007
Language documentation faces challenges of data preservation and accessibility. Data can be lost due to physical deterioration (e.g. field notes or tape recordings) or outdated format (e.g. Microsoft Word 3.0).
Gary F. Simons, Kenneth S. Olson, Paul S. Frank   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mutual mimesis of nature and culture: A representational perspective for eco-cultural metamorphosis

Sign Systems Studies, 2010
Since the beginning of history humans have attempted to represent nature and culture through mimesis. This article focuses on the teleological aspects of mimesis and offers a different perspective that transcends the notion of sustainability into an eco ...
Farouk Y. Seif
doaj   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

Sparse Logistic Regression with High-order Features for Automatic Grammar Rule Extraction from Treebanks [PDF]

arXiv
Descriptive grammars are highly valuable, but writing them is time-consuming and difficult. Furthermore, while linguists typically use corpora to create them, grammar descriptions often lack quantitative data. As for formal grammars, they can be challenging to interpret.
arxiv  

Unsupervised Language Acquisition [PDF]

arXiv, 1996
This thesis presents a computational theory of unsupervised language acquisition, precisely defining procedures for learning language from ordinary spoken or written utterances, with no explicit help from a teacher. The theory is based heavily on concepts borrowed from machine learning and statistical estimation.
arxiv  

Genus Alternans in the Early History of Ibero‐Romance: Textual Evidence from Early Medieval Iberian Peninsula

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study revisits the diachrony of the Latin neuter gender in early Ibero‐Romance. The fate of the Latin neuter is counted among the most long‐standing and yet the most controversial questions in Romance historical morphosyntax. While there has been a long‐held belief that neuter nouns merged into the masculine gender in late Latin after ...
Ziwen Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Complexity Results in Feature Theories [PDF]

arXiv, 1995
In this paper, we assess the complexity results of formalisms that describe the feature theories used in computational linguistics. We show that from these complexity results no immediate conclusions can be drawn about the complexity of the recognition problem of unification grammars using these feature theories.
arxiv  

Mood Selection in the Old Northumbrian Gloss to Durham MS A.iv.19

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this article is to examine the use of the subjunctive in the 10th‐century Old Northumbrian gloss to Durham, MS.A.iv.19. We assess whether there is evidence for a weakening of the indicative/subjunctive opposition, as has been argued for the earlier gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels, which was the work of the same glossator, Aldred of
Julia Fernández Cuesta, Christopher Langmuir   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Abstract Machine for Unification Grammars [PDF]

arXiv, 1997
This work describes the design and implementation of an abstract machine, Amalia, for the linguistic formalism ALE, which is based on typed feature structures. This formalism is one of the most widely accepted in computational linguistics and has been used for designing grammars in various linguistic theories, most notably HPSG.
arxiv  

Revisiting Two Finiteness Phenomena for Mandarin Chinese Complementation Structures: An Empirically Oriented Approach via Systematic Hypothesis Testing

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The literature has debated whether Mandarin Chinese exhibits a finiteness distinction despite the absence of overt tense and agreement marking. Huang (2022), along with other Generative studies, has re‐affirmed this distinction and repeatedly rejected Hu et al. (2001), which presents opposing views.
Chit‐Fung Lam
wiley   +1 more source