Representing morphological tone in a computational grammar of Hausa

HaG— A Computational Grammar of Hausa

In this paper, I shall give an overview of HaG (=Hausa Grammar), an emerging computational grammar of Hausa1, developed within the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure (Pollard and Sag, 1987, 1994; Sag, 1997). Since HPSG is an integrated theory of syntax and semantics, meaning representations are built up in tandem with syntactic analysis. Semantics in HaG are represented using Minimal Rec...

ASPECTS OF HAUSA MORPHOSYNTAX IN ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR By

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

Representing Caused Motion in Embodied Construction Grammar

This paper offers an Embodied Construction Grammar (Feldman et al. 2010) representation of caused motion, thereby also providing (a sample of) the computational infrastructure for implementing the information that FrameNet has characterized as Caused_motion (Ruppenhofer et al. 2010). This work specifies the semantic structure of caused motion in natural language, using an Embodied Construction ...

Representing Information Structure in a Formal Grammar of Danish

Abstract. This paper presents a proposal for the integration of information structure in a unification-based grammar of Danish. Three information structure features – topic, focus and background – are defined, and it is shown how they are instantiated in a number of different grammar constructions. Prosodic, syntactic and information structure constraints characterising the various construction...