This paper analyzes the phonology of definite determiner (DET) two Yemeni Tihami Arabic dialects. The underlying Det for one dialect (the b-dialect) is /b-/: [θoor] ‘ox’- [b-θoor] ‘the ox’, and /m/ another OCP m-dialect): [m-θoor] ox’. Although underlyingly different in both dialects, it fully assimilates to following word-initial consonant if labial, creating a geminate. On surface, onset gemi...

This article ooers a comprehensive HPSG treatment of determiners within the Noun Phrase, accounting for their rich variety as regards distributional behaviour, category features, dependency relations and semantic contribution. To introduce the reader to the empirical problems at issue, a contrastive examination of English vs. Italian data is carried out at various points in the work, but the Ro...

A data elicitation study on the type of demonstratives and determiners selected to denote objects in English, Dutch and Portuguese dialogues is presented. Participants were given a scenario and a scripted dialogue in which a furniture seller identifies target objects to a buyer. They were then asked to choose a combination of a determiner or demonstrative and a referring expression to be uttere...

We use data from a virtual world game for automated learning of words and grammatical constructions and their meanings. The language data are an integral part of the social interaction in the game and consist of chat dialogue, which is only constrained by the cultural context, as set by the nature of the provided virtual environment. Building on previous work, where we extracted a vocabulary fo...

Semantic substitution errors (e.g., saying "arm" when "leg" is intended) are among the most common types of errors occurring during spontaneous speech. It has been shown that grammatical gender of German target nouns is preserved in the errors (E. Mane, 1999). In 3 experiments, the authors explored different accounts of the grammatical gender preservation effect in German. In all experiments, s...

This paper presents some observations on the syntax and semantics of the Tagalog phrase marking particles ang, ng, and sa. More specifically, it is concerned with investigating the following two points. First, while there is some evidence for the widely held view that the phase marking particles form a kind of paradigm in that they are at least in partial complementary distribution, they differ...

In a quantified expression, the possibility of referring to the set-theoretical difference of restrictor and scope is known as complement anaphora (CA). Existing literature suggests two ways of analyzing this phenomenon either as confusion with reference to the maximal set, or as genuine complement reference. This paper will show that resolving an anaphor to the complement set is never a viable...

This paper aims to investigate the properties of nominal elements in bilingual speakers of Turkish and Russian learning Greek as a second language. Specifically, the data examined include the use of determiners in definite and indefinite DPs and pronominal (object) clitics. Primarily, the study seeks to identify the (abstract) morphological features which show differential development in the L2...

Researchers have long known that children variably produce grammatical morphemes in spontaneous speech (e.g., Brown, 1973). Thus, a given child on a given day may supply a determiner (such as the article a or the) or a tense morpheme (such as the past tense marker –t/d) in some utterances but not in others. This has typically led researchers to propose that children’s syntactic representations ...