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  • Linking Dutch Wikipedia Categories to EuroWordNet : SA-OT accounts for pronoun resolution in child language 
    Bouma, Gosse (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-12)
    Wikipedia provides category information for a large number of named entities but the category structure of Wikipedia is associative, and not always suitable for linguistic applications. For this reason, a merger ofWikipedia ...
  • An Aspect Based Document Representation for Event Clustering : SA-OT accounts for pronoun resolution in child language 
    De Smet, Wim; Moens, Marie-Francine (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-12)
    We have studied several techniques for creating and comparing content representations of textual documents in the field of event detection. We define a document as a collection of aspects, i.e. disjoint components that ...
  • Invited talk: Constraint-based Sentence Compression: An Integer Programming Approach 
    Lapata, Mirella (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-12)
    In this talk we introduce the sentence compression task, which can be viewed as producing a summary of a single sentence. An ideal compression algorithm should produce a shorter version of an original sentence that retains ...
  • Elephants and Optimality Again : SA-OT accounts for pronoun resolution in child language 
    Biró, Tamás (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-12)
    Children display a surprising delay in correctly resolving pronouns, while they employ Chomsky’s binding principles correctly in production and in resolving reflexives. We account for the mistakes as performance errors ...
  • Annotation of Events and Temporal Expressions in French Texts : SA-OT accounts for pronoun resolution in child language 
    Bittar, André (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-12)
    An important part of natural language text comprehension is the understanding of temporal information. TimeML is a specification language designed for the markup of temporal information in natural language texts, with ...
  • Nominalization in Soqotri, a South Arabian language of Yemen 
    Shibatani, Masayoshi; Awadh Bin Makhashen, Khaled (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "In his recent article Deutscher (2009: 199) suggests that “nominalization is an unsung hero in the story of subordination”. He goes on to say that “[t]he ability to derive a noun from a verb, that is, to reify a verbal ...
  • On derivational processes in Fataluku, a non- Austronesian language in East-Timor 
    Engelenhoven, Aone van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "With its 30,000 speakers, Fataluku is the fourth language of the republic of East-Timor. It genetically belongs to the non-Austronesian Timor- Alor-Pantar branch that is a member of the Trans-New-Guinea phylum (van ...
  • The Linguistics of Endangered Languages : Contributions to Morphology and Morphosyntax 
    Wetzels, W. Leo (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    Within the remit of the general theoretical debate, the contribution of theory- directed data is crucially important to improve data-oriented theory formation. For any kind of theoretical linguistics, the discovery ...
  • Noun classes in Tafi: A preliminary analysis 
    Lamptey Bobuafor, Mercy (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "Tafi is a Ghana-Togo-Mountain (GTM) language (Ring 1995) spoken in Ghana. The GTMlanguages are spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin. Earlier works on these languages referred to them, in German, as “Togoestsprachen” (Struck ...
  • Noun class system and agreement patterns in Logba (Ikpana) 
    Dorvlo, Kofi (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "The Ghana Togo Mountain (GTM) languages are well known for their noun class system and agreement patterns. However, an insight into the grammar of Logba shows that this language behaves differently from its presumed ...
  • Possession in Sheko 
    Hellenthal, Anne-Christie (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "Possession is a notion which seems simple at first, but is semantically complex at closer inspection. At its simplest, possession is the relation between a possessor and a possessed item, the possessum. The central type ...
  • Negation in Dime 
    Seyoum, Mulugeta (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "Every language has mechanisms to express negation. Variant forms of negatives in different languages may be expressed through the position of negativemarkers, their form, interpretation, and theway inwhich they are ...
  • The morphosyntax of negation in Zargulla 
    Amha, Azeb (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "Zargulla is the name by which the language examined in the present study is known among linguists and in official documents in Ethiopia. The 1994 national census, for instance, reports that there are 7800 mother tongue ...
  • Truth and knowledge markers in Wayana (Cariban), Suriname 
    Carlin, Eithne B. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "‘Truth and knowledge markers’ is the term used to group together a seemingly disparate set of grammatical markers that is pervasive in the Cariban, and also in some Arawakan languages of the Guianas in South America. ...
  • La posture du corps dans la classification et la localisation: l’exemple du sikuani 
    Queixalós, Francesc (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "de Queixalós 1992 et 1998, l’usage que la langue sikuani2 fait d’une certaine lecture des configurations spatiales que le corps humain peut prendre. Ces configurations s’expriment dans un paradigme de quatre verbes. La ...
  • Inverse markers in Andean languages: A comparative view 
    Adelaar, Willem F.H. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "The purpose of the present contribution is to compare the use of inverse markers in the verbal morphology of three unrelated Andean languages: Quechua, Puquina and Mapuche. It will be argued that inverse markers tend ...
  • El nombre en Nɨkak 
    Mahecha Rubio, Dany (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "Este artículo describe características fonológicas,morfológicas y sintácticas de los nominales en la lengua Nɨkak. Para empezar presenta un panorama del contexto cultural y lingüístico de losNɨkak, incluyendo los principales ...
  • Property concepts in the Cariban family: Adjectives, adverbs, and/or nouns? 
    Meira, Sérgio; Gildea, Spike (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "It has been a staple of typology since Dixon (1977, 1982) that the adjective class is not universal,with “property concepts” (semantic adjectives) sometimes found in a lexical class of adjectives, but sometimes in ...
  • Morfología y función de las construcciones nominalizadas en wã́nsöjöt (puinave) 
    Mario Girón, Jesús (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-10)
    "Se entiende corrientemente que ‘nominalización’ es “volver nombre un verbo o un adjetivo” generalmente con la adición de algún elemento morfológico, dando por resultado el nombre de la acción (‘action nouns’, infinitivos, ...
  • Low-Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition : Proceedings of the 4th Symposium Antwerp 2008 
    Craats, Ineke van de; Kurvers, Jeanne (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009-07)
    The language and literacy development by adult learners with little or no schooling in their native country continues to be a relatively new and almost unexplored domain. The fourth LESLLA symposium in Antwerp brought ...