From bodily posture to progressive aspect marker

Posture Verbs and Aspect: A View from Vernacular Arabic

This paper discusses a construction found in contemporary Arabic vernaculars (but not in Modern Standard Arabic (henceforth MSA)) which constitutes an instance of a common grammaticalisation path in which a posture verb with a core lexical meaning of ‘sitting’ has grammaticalised into an ASPECTual marker. We bring together data from a range of dialects and provide substantial evidence of gramma...

Marker-based foot posture assessment in children

Background An ideal measure of foot posture should be repeatable, representative of foot position, quantitative, objective, comprehensive, and suited to static and dynamic assessment. The Oxford Foot Model (OFM) is a clinically tested and validated model [1] used to assess foot deformity during walking. This study aims to use relevant components of the OFM to provide a quantitative foot posture...

Spanish progressive aspect in stochastic OT

Aspect Marker Generation in English-to-Chinese Machine Translation

This paper reports on a pilot study of aspect marker generation in an English-to-Chinese translation scenario. Our classifier combines a number of linguistic features in a Maximum Entropy framework and achieves an overall accuracy of 78%. We also investigate the impact of different clusters of linguistic features; we find that syntactic features have the highest utility and lexical aspectual pr...

Bodily immunity to error *

Self-ascription of a property is said to be immune to error through misidentification relative to the first-person if and only if one cannot be mistaken about the person who instantiates the property when one has gained information about the property in the appropriate way (although one can be mistaken about the property one ascribes to oneself) (Evans, 1982). For instance, if I think that I am...