Morphosyntactic disambiguation is a crucial pre-processing step for the recognition of grammatical functions in morphologically rich languages like German and heavily nominalized domains like law texts. This paper explores how far linguistically motivated hard rules can contribute to morphosyntactic disambiguation. It introduces an incremental system that is capable of reducing the rate of morp...

According to Biber’s definition, text types are represented by groupings of texts which are similar in their linguistic form, while genre categories are assigned on the basis of use. It is important to stress that texts from a single genre might be classified into different text types. In the present research, an experiment will be carried out to single out different text typologies among Itali...

American Sign Language famously disambiguates pronoun antecedents with the use of space. In ASL, both referential and quantificational NPs can be signed at different locations (‘loci’) in the signing space. Pronouns can later retrieve these NPs by pointing at the same locus. Many analyses of ASL pronouns assume that these spatial loci are the overt realization of formal variables (Lillo-Martin ...

Based on recent findings showing electrophysiological changes in adult language learners after relatively short periods of training, we hypothesized that adult Dutch learners of German would show responses to German gender and adjective declension violations after brief instruction. Adjective declension in German differs from previously studied morphosyntactic regularities in that the required ...

Kamsá is a language isolate spoken in the Sibundoy Valley Putumayo department of southern Colombia. Its speech community lives on eastern slopes Andes Mountains, between linguistic areas and Amazon. This paper presents various grammatical features Kamsá, including its phonology, nominal morphology (especially noun class case marking), verbal person/number marking for core arguments evidentialit...

Classifications of evidentiality all include at least one ‘reported’, ‘quotative’ or ‘hearsay’ category. This category is found in many language groups that are attested to have evidentiality, including the Tibeto-Burman family. Although attested, reported often under-described both descriptive grammars specific languages, and typologies across survey family mention descriptions 88 130 language...