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
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Large-Scale Noun Compound Interpretation Using Bootstrapping and the Web as a Corpus [PDF]
EMNLP-2011, 2019 Responding to the need for semantic lexical resources in natural language processing applications, we examine methods to acquire noun compounds (NCs), e.g., "orange juice", together with suitable fine-grained semantic interpretations, e.g., "squeezed from", which are directly usable as paraphrases.
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High and low frequency nouns as sources of hesitation in the production of speech [PDF]
, 1968 Richard W. Howell, Harold J. Vetter
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, 2016 This brief encyclopedia entry addresses three questions: What are verbing and nouning? Why are they important for language evolution? And are prescriptive grammarians right to be so unreceptive?
Gomashie, Grace, Stainton, Robert
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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
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Extracting Noun Phrases from Large-Scale Texts: A Hybrid Approach and Its Automatic Evaluation
, 1994 To acquire noun phrases from running texts is useful for many applications, such as word grouping,terminology indexing, etc. The reported literatures adopt pure probabilistic approach, or pure rule-based noun phrases grammar to tackle this problem.
Chen, Hsin-Hsi, Chen, Kuang-hua
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Is the scope of phonological planning constrained by the syntactical role of the utterance constituents? [PDF]
, 2009 Five experiments looked the effect of repeated phonemes in the production of color adjective+noun phrases in English ("green gun"), or noun+color adjective phrases in Spanish and French.
Damian, Markus +3 more
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QueryMamba: A Mamba-Based Encoder-Decoder Architecture with a Statistical Verb-Noun Interaction Module for Video Action Forecasting @ Ego4D Long-Term Action Anticipation Challenge 2024 [PDF]
arXivThis report presents a novel Mamba-based encoder-decoder architecture, QueryMamba, featuring an integrated verb-noun interaction module that utilizes a statistical verb-noun co-occurrence matrix to enhance video action forecasting. This architecture not only predicts verbs and nouns likely to occur based on historical data but also considers their ...
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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Reflections on the term 'stem' based on Turkish grammar resources in Turkey
Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları DergisiThis study analyzed issues surrounding the concept of "stem" in Turkish linguistics. It began by establishing a general framework based on existing definitions of "root" and "stem" in the literature. Subsequently, it analyzed the treatment and examples
Mustafa Kemal, Arife Ece
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