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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Practical language development: Whose mission?
(Linguistic Society of America, 2009)
The purpose of this paper is to acknowledge and explore the relationship between academic and
mission linguistics, focusing on their main areas of overlap, language documentation and
fieldwork. Our orientation is ...
A twice-mixed creole? Tracing the history of a prosodic split in the Saramaccan lexicon
(Studies in Language, 2009-04)
Saramaccan, a maroon creole of Suriname, shows evidence of having a split lexicon where the majority of its words are marked for pitch accent but an important minority are marked for tone. The basic origins of this split ...