[PDF] Top 20 Grammars In Contact: a cross-linguistic typology

... Dixon 1 Introduction 2 Syntactic orientation 3 Free and bound pronouns 4 Parameters of variation for bound pronouns 5 The Wemba-Wemba language Tal 6 The Western Desert language 7 Discuss[r] ... See full document

... linguistic area or sprachbund is a geographically delimited region including languages from two o r more language families, or different subgrou ps of the same family, sharing significa[r] ... See full document

... written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus A grammar of Tariana, from northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003; paperback 2007), ... See full document

... and cross-fertilization of ...on linguistic typology, historical com­ parative issues, and problems of areal ...basic linguistic theory-the cumulative typological functional framework in terms ... See full document

... Kleiner’s (1998) analysis, the general extender (or) whatever can be used to mark preceding material as “other-authored” and to express “the speaker’s disaffiliation with or opposition to that material” (1998, p. 602). ... See full document

... We have shown in this paper that, when a PCFG is estimated from some tree distribution by minimiz- ing the cross-entropy, then the cross-entropy takes the same value as the derivational entropy of the PCFG ... See full document

... In the experiments for RQ1 and RQ2 we predict typological features extracted from WALS (Dryer and Haspelmath, 2013). We choose to investi- gate three linguistic levels of language: phonol- ogy, morphology, and ... See full document

... OT grammars and HG-non- OT grammars (namely HG grammars with no OT ...target grammars, we compute the generalization error of the hypothe- sis that performs better (that is, has the largest ... See full document

... A central prerequisite for the success of our strategy is the cross-lingual validity of our semantic tag categories. The existence of the parallel corpus gives us the opportunity to confirm this prerequisite. ... See full document

... Although an established topic of investigation in human geography and ecological anthropology, vegetation cover has so far taken a back seat in the linguistic inquiry into land- scape. As with other landscape ... See full document

... utterances. When infants reduplicate, they prefer to do so at the end of the utterance. This is the case for both trisyllabic utterances and utterances consisting of four syllables. From a cross linguistic ... See full document

... In this paper, we have presented the theory of meta- phonemes. We have illustrated our theory with the definition of cross-linguistic phoneme correspon- dences for English, Dutch, and German. We believe ... See full document

... This document describes the first digital steps of Working Group 1 “Grammars of Coercion” (hereafter WG1) towards a common and multilingual cross-corpora annotation model for the semantic analysis of ... See full document

... indicates that transfer can occur at any levels, strategic, linguistic, discourse, and pragmatic (Liu, 2001). Odlin then proposed a classification of outcomes in order to shed some light on the various influences ... See full document

... In this paper, we argue that parallel corpora show promise in relieving the lexical acquisition bottle- neck for low density languages. We proposed se- mantic projection as a means of obtaining FrameNet annotations ... See full document

... Vision and language researchers have started to col- lect image description corpora for languages other than English, e.g. Chinese (Li et al., 2016), German (Elliott et al., 2016; Hitschler et al., 2016; Rajendran et ... See full document

... Arabic ـﺠ can be realized, as either [j] or [g], and one of the reflexes in English for Arabic ﻕ can be [g] as well. How do we differentiate the one from the other? Quite simply, the Arabic input is not random data. ... See full document

... This paper proposes a way in which the semantographic/phonographic dichotomy recognised as fundamental in logographic (or morphosyllabic) writing systems in East Asia, the ancient Middle East, and Mesoamerica, can be ... See full document

... One can see from these examples that true and right can not be compared as easily from one language to another as good and bad and further that although there are similarities between wo[r] ... See full document

... the cross-linguistic ...the cross-linguistic facts, largely drawing on van Rooij’s recent ...of cross-linguistic variation in view of the analysis I propose, specifically with ... See full document