This study aims at exploring demonstratives in two dialects: Hodeidi Yemeni Arabic and Taizi Arabic, comparing them to Modern Standard Arabic. The description of the dialects along with focused on tracing syntactic semantic evidence they are like exhibit. model used undertake analysis follows Diessel (1999). Although attracted considerable scholarly attention, literature reflects a scarcity res...

This paper describes methods and results for the annotation of two discourse-level phenomena, connectives and pronouns, over a multilingual parallel corpus. Excerpts from Europarl in English and French have been annotated with disambiguation information for connectives and pronouns, for about 3600 tokens. This data is then used in several ways: for cross-linguistic studies, for training automat...

The term anaphora describes backward reference to items previously occurring in a text (see e.g., Mitkov, 2002). The pointing back item is called an anaphor and the item to which it refers is called its antecedent. The identification of an anaphor’s antecedent is termed anaphora resolution and is considered one of the most difficult tasks in natural language processing (NLP) since it relies on ...

This paper investigates the distribution of pronouns and anaphors in picture NPs (cf. Keller & Asudeh 2001; Runner et al. 2003). I discuss the predictions of current LFG and HSPG binding theories, none of which make the right predictions. I present new results showing that the acceptability of pronouns is influenced by AGENTIVITY. That is, pronouns are less acceptable if their binder bears the ...

This article is an attempt at answering the question about Anna Kamieńska editorial work on Notatnik. The discussion of creative process applies to a manuscript fragment journal from period 31 Oct 1971–15 Feb 1972, published in instalments 1970s W drodze periodical, and book releases 1980s. analysis changes selected linguistic forms. Those include, e.g., replacement nouns with pronouns, diminut...

A recently-proposed machine learning approach to reference resolution — the twin-candidate approach — has been shown to be more promising than the traditional single-candidate approach. This paper presents a pronoun interpretation system that extends the twin-candidate framework by (1) equipping it with the ability to identify non-referential pronouns, (2) training different models for handling...