Fronting in Old Spanish

The Determinants of Survival of Spanish Consumers Fronting the BSE Crisis

The impact of food scares on meat consumption has been traditionally investigated by estimating food demand systems using aggregated time series. Only a few have considered micro data but none of them has tried to quantify consumers’ reaction to food scares and the speed of such reactions. In this study we apply duration analysis techniques with the aim of analysing the effect of different expl...

Diagnosing Predicate Fronting in Samoan

∗ James N. Collins, Stanford University, [email protected]. Acknowledgements: Thanks to Emily Sataua and Joey Zodiakal for their time as consultants. Data from these two consultants for this project was collected in 2013. Both consultants self-identify as speakers of American Samoa Samoan. Thanks also to Vince Schwenke-Enoka and Rev. Iakopo Leleimalefaga for additional judgements. Thanks to ...

On Wh-Fronting in Russian

Boškovi (1997a), (1997b), (in press a), (in press b) showed that Superiority effects (cf. Chomsky (1973)) may be taken as a diagnostic for wh-movement in multiple whquestions, that is, movement of a wh-phrase to Spec-CP, if one adopts the minimalist framework of Chomsky (1995b). In this framework, movement is subject to derivational economy, realized in conditions such as Minimal Link (MLC). In...

Velar Fronting Revisited

Improving POS Tagging in Old Spanish Using TEITOK

In this paper, we describe how the TEITOK corpus tools helped to create a diachronic corpus for Old Spanish that contains both paleographic and linguistic information, which is easy to use for nonspecialists, and in which it is easy to perform manual improvements to automatically assigned POS tags and lemmas.