VIII.-ANGLO-ROMANCE ETYMOLOGIES

Intensifying Prefixes in the Etymologies

The Etymologies (as found in The Lost Road and in the “Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies” published in Vinyar Tengwar 45 and 46) include several examples of forms that are denoted as “intensified” by Tolkien, among them those that are formed by a prefix. The entry A‐ (VT45:5) is perhaps the best starting point for a classification of these intensified forms. We learn there of an intensi...

Romance is so complex

In this paper I want to look at what the evidence from Complex Predicates can tell us about the design parameters of an empirically adequate theory of Universal Grammar (UG). This is a fertile field for investigation because, according to the standard assumptions of the field, complex predicates are monoclausal with respect to some properties and multiclausal with respect to others and this ten...

“Three Kingdoms” to Romance

The Romance of Tuberculosis

Latin Etymologies as Features on BNC Text Categorization

This paper presents an early experimental work on BNC Text Categorization (TC) with Latin etymologies as features, emphasis on spoken and written texts. Two aims achieved in this study: (1) to explore discriminative new linguistic features rather than lots of noise-bringing “bag-of-words” (BoW). (2) to build up a base step to represent texts in distinct types of linguistic features with differe...