Word-level morphosyntactic descriptions, such as “Ncmsn” designating a common masculine singular noun in the nominative, have been developed for all Slavic languages, yet there have been few attempts to arrive at a proposal that would be harmonised across the languages. Standardisation adds to the interchange potential of the resources, making it easier to develop multilingual applications or t...

Word-level morphosyntactic descriptions, such as “Ncmsn” designating a common masculine singular noun in the nominative, have been developed for all Slavic languages, yet there have been few attempts to arrive at a proposal that would be harmonised across the languages. Standardisation adds to the interchange potential of the resources, making it easier to develop multilingual applications or t...

Objective: To examine whether moderate to severe congenital hearing impairment (MSCHI) leads to persistent morphosyntactic problems in the written language production of adults, as it does in their spoken language production. Design: Samples of written language in Dutch were analysed for morphosyntactic correctness and syntactic complexity. Study Sample: 20 adults with MSCHI and 10 adults with ...

This article presents a formalism and a beta version of a new tool for simultaneous morphosyntactic disambiguation and shallow parsing. Unlike in the case of other shallow parsing formalisms, the rules of the grammar allow for explicit morphosyntactic disambiguation statements, independently of structure-building statements, which facilitates the task of the shallow parsing of morphosyntactical...

Minimal pairs are defined as pair of words in a particular language which differ in only one phonological element and have a different meaning (Roach, 2000). Several authors argued their relevance in the treatment of phonological disorders (for instance, Barlow and Gierut, 2002). In this study we investigate the nature of minimal pairs showing that a subtype of them entails a peculiar form of p...

In this paper we bring forward a comprehensive discussion on the grammatical development of English progressive construction. From set prototypes drawn from family corpora York-Toronto-Helsinki-Penn, exemplify how lexical and configuration construction which is characteristic Present-Day appears since Old English. Furthermore, explain syntactic evolution enables establishment obligatory nature ...

Case is defined by the positive values [+H(ighest) R(ole)], [+L(owest) R(ole)], which are assigned to the Th-roles according to their relative position on the Th-role hierarchy (itself a projection of semantic form). (25) a. [+HR] is assigned to the highest role. b. [+LR] is assigned to the lowest role. Our notion of abstract Case resembles GB’s in that it is a syntactically assigned feature co...

In this paper we explore the consequences of Grammatical Downsizing. Grammatical Downsizing occurs when the rules of morphology, phonology or syntax cause a given formative to be ill-formed in a certain context. We demonstrate with examples from Kannada and Modern Greek that Grammatical Downsizing leads to an extension of the semantic domain of some other formative, redistributing the semantic ...