The Impersonal Passive in Lithuanian

The Polish passive and impersonal in Lexical Mapping Theory*

Is There a Passive Evidential Strategy in Lithuanian?

0. Preliminaries Evidentiality is a modal category that qualifies propositions in terms of the speaker's source of information (e.g., reported, inferential, hearsay). Compare epistemic modals, which mark the speaker's judgment of the factual status of the proposition, rather than the source of this knowledge. Evidentials are typically marked with verbal affixes, clitics, or particles. Languages...

Impersonal Constructions in Balochi

Impersonal constructions are interesting from a typological perspective. Siewierska (2008: 3–4) finds that “[t]he semantic characterizations of impersonality centre on two notions”, either “the lack of a human agent controlling the depicted situation or event” or “situations or events which may be brought about by a human agent but crucially one which is not specified.” The present article focu...

Lithuanian-Latvian-Lithuanian Parallel Corpus

The goal of the paper is to present different problems related to the building of Parallel Corpus for two small languages, namely, Latvian and Lithuanian. The Lithuanian-Latvian-Lithuania Parallel Corpus (LILA) will contain 8 million running words; will be bidirectional, aligned on the sentence level. The problems include identifying, acquiring, preparing, and aligning parallel texts.

Impersonal Failure Detection

What does it mean to solve a distributed task? In Paxos, Lamport proposed a definition of solvability in which every process is split into a proposer that submits commands to be executed, an acceptor that takes care of the command execution order, and a learner that receives the outcomes of executed commands. The resulting perspective of computation in which every proposed command can be execut...