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Automatic Learning of Grammatical Encoding
(CSLI, 2008)
Avenue (Probst et al., 2002, Monson et al., 2004, Lavie et al., 2003, Font-Llitjoset al.,2005)1 is a machine translation system that automatically learns translation rules between two languages. In the Avenue scenario, one ...
Creating a database and query-tools for the TELL multi-speaker linguistic corpus
(University of Pennsylvania, 2001)
The Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon (TELL;
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7037) represents the
first large-scale effort to collect transcribed recordings
of a large number of partial morphological
paradigms (more than ...
The ecology of documentary and descriptive linguistics
(SOAS, 2007)
This paper will propose a model of the “ecology” of documentary and descriptive linguistic
research. I use the term ecology, here, as a designation for the set of individuals, resources,
tools, and actions that are ...
Clause combining in Chechen
(John Benjamins, 2003)
Chechen exhibits three major strategies for the combination of clauses: coordination, chaining,
and subordination. The major formal characteristics of these three traditional categories of clause
linking are discussed ...
Can GOLD “cope” with WALS? Retrofitting an ontology onto the World Atlas of Language Structures
(E-MELD, 2005)
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS, Haspelmath et al. 2005) is a large-scale
“database of databases” consisting of 141 typological databases, covering a wide range of
grammatical features, joined into one ...
Implementation for discovery: A bipartite lexicon to support morphological and syntactic analysis
(Chicago Linguistic Society, 2009)
The purpose of this paper is to present and justify aspects of the Montage model
of morphology. Montage (Bender et al. 2004) is a long-term project with the goal
of building a suite of software tools to assist linguists ...
When arguments become adjuncts: Split configurationality in Leggbó
(Chicago Linguistic Society, 2007)
Leggbó is an Upper Cross language of the Niger-Congo family
spoken by about 60,000 people in southeastern Nigeria. In
affirmative sentences, it shows SVO word order, but in negative
sentences, it shows SOV order. ...
Book review: Childs, G. Tucker (2003). An Introduction to African Languages
(John Benjamins, 2009-02)
Review: Stress, tone, and intonation in Creoles and contact languages (Parth Bhatt and Ingo Plag, eds.)
(John Benjamins, 2008)
There has been a fair amount of research on the prosodic systems of contact
languages in recent years (see, e.g., Devonish, 2002; Good, 2004; Gooden, 2003;
and Remijsen & van Heuven, 2005, among others). And, at least ...
Tone and accent in Saramaccan: Charting a deep split in the phonology of a language
(Elsevier, 2004)
Saramaccan, an Atlantic creole spoken in Surinam, has traditionally been analyzed as exhibiting
a high-tone/low-tone opposition in its lexicon. However, while it is true that part
of its lexicon exhibits a robust high/low ...