Resultative secondary predicates in Turkic languages

Arguments for Pseudo-Resultative Predicates∗†

This paper addresses the compositionality puzzle presented by a class of ‘pseudo-resultative’ predicates, such as tight in the sentence She braided her hair tight. The analysis proposed reveals that the modification involved also provides insight into the nature of the lexical roots of verbs and their role in compositional semantics. Pseudo-resultative predicates superficially resemble resultat...

Finding arguments for pseudo-resultative predicates

Machine Translation between Turkic Languages

We present an approach to MT between Turkic languages and present results from an implementation of a MT system from Turkmen to Turkish. Our approach relies on ambiguous lexical and morphological transfer augmented with target side rule-based repairs and rescoring with statistical language models.

Classifying Predicates and Languages

The present paper studies a particular collection of classi cation problems, i.e., the classi cation of recursive predicates and languages, for arriving at a deeper understanding of what classi cation really is. In particular, the classi cation of predicates and languages is compared with the classi cation of arbitrary recursive functions and with their learnability. The investigation undertake...

Annotating Cognates and Etymological Origin in Turkic Languages

Turkic languages exhibit extensive and diverse etymological relationships among lexical items. These relationships make the Turkic languages promising for exploring automated translation lexicon induction by leveraging cognate and other etymological information. However, due to the extent and diversity of the types of relationships between words, it is not clear how to annotate such information...