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Montage: Leveraging advances in grammar engineering, linguistic ontologies, and mark-up for the documentation of underdescribed languages
(Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2004)
The Montage project aims to develop a suite of software tools which will assist field linguists in organizing and analyzing the data they
collect while at the same time producing resources which are easily discoverable ...
Split prosody and creole simplicity: The case of Saramaccan
(AEJPL, 2004)
Saramaccan, an Atlantic creole whose lexifier languages are Portuguese and
English, has a “split” prosodic system wherein the majority of its words are
marked for pitch accent but an important minority are marked for ...
Reconstructing morpheme order in Bantu: The case of causativization and applicativization
(John Benjamins, 2005)
The morphological ordering relationships among a set of valence-changing suffixes found throughout the Bantu family have been of theoretical interest in a number of synchronic studies of the daughter languages. However, ...
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 ...
Typologizing grammatical complexities or Why creoles may be paradigmatically simple but syntagmatically average
(John Benjamins, 2012)
An important theme in work attempting to situate creoles with respect to non-creoles
typologically is the extent to which it can be said that creole grammars are relatively
simple from a cross-linguistic perspective. ...
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 ...
Modeling and Encoding Traditional Wordlists for Machine Applications
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010)
This paper describes work being done on
the modeling and encoding of a legacy resource,
the traditional descriptive wordlist,
in ways that make its data accessible to
NLP applications. We describe an abstract
model ...
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 ...
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 ...
Languoid, Doculect and Glossonym: Formalizing the Notion ‘Language’
(University of Hawaii Press, 2013)
It is perfectly reasonable for laypeople and non-linguistic scholars to use names for languages
without reflecting on the proper definition of the objects referred to by these names. Simply
using a name like English or ...