We describe the design objectives, features, and the computational language model of a computer-mediated tool designed for learners of Turkish morphology. The underlying system is a generative grammar, more speciically, a computational word grammar that makes use of feature structures to deliver composition and decomposition of morphemes at the syntax-lexicon interface via two-level morphology....

Cognitive linguistics has reached a stage of maturity where many researchers are looking for an explicit formal grounding of their work. Unfortunately, most current models of deep language processing incorporate assumptions from generative grammar that are at odds with the cognitive movement in linguistics. This demonstration shows how Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG), a fully operational and b...

Jong-Bok Kim, Jaehyung Yang, and Sanghoun Song. 2010. Parsing Korean Comparative Constructions in a Typed-Feature Structure Grammar. Language and Information 14.1 , 1–24. The complexity of comparative constructions in each language has given challenges to both theoretical and computational analyses. This paper first identifies types of comparative constructions in Korean and discusses their mai...

The isiZulu verb is known for its morphological complexity, which is a subject for on-going linguistics research, as well as for prospects of computational use, such as controlled natural language interfaces, machine translation, and spellcheckers. To this end, we seek to answer the question as to what the precise grammar rules for the isiZulu complex verb are (and, by extension, the Bantu verb...

This paper describes the application of hypergraph grammars to drive a linear computational cost solver for grids with point singularities. Such graph grammar productions are the first mathematical formalisms used to describe solver algorithms, and each indicates the smallest atomic task that can be executed in parallel, which is very useful in the case of parallel execution. In particular, the...

Constructing a natural language dictionary and/or a grammar for computational use is a farreaching project, requiring very important human and material resources. Generalisation of the lexical approaches in natural language modelling confers an essential role to the dictionary in every system for automatic natural language processing. More and more information, which was traditionally encoded b...

The idea that the head of an expression determines the type of that expression is a deeply entrenched axiom of modern linguistics. It is the basis of X-Bar Theory and Dependency Grammar and a key notion underlying Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG). It has a long history dating back at least to Bloomfield’s notion of endocentric construct...

The purpose of this work is to investigate the process of grammatical acquisition from data. In order to do that, a computational learning system is used, composed of a Universal Grammar with associated parameters, and a learning algorithm, following the Principles and Parameters Theory. The Universal Grammar is implemented as a Unification-Based Generalised Categorial Grammar, embedded in a de...

This paper discusses the phenomenon of analytic and synthetic verb forms in Modern Irish, which results in a widespread system of morphological blocking. I present data from Modern Irish, then briefly discuss two earlier theoretical approaches. I introduce an alternative, agreement-based solution, involving 1) a finite-state morphological analyzer for verb forms implemented using the FST toolse...