We present the CimS submissions to the 2014 Shared Task for the language pair EN→DE. We address the major problems that arise when translating into German: complex nominal and verbal morphology, productive compounding and flexible word ordering. Our morphologyaware translation systems handle word formation issues on different levels of morpho-syntactic modeling.

This paper discusses how pluractionality is expressed in Macuxi (Cariban), a South American Indigenous language spoken Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. Cross-linguistically, the multiplicity of an action can be by means specialized pluractional morphemes affixed on verbs, via adverbs, or reduplication. Previous work claimed that iterative suffix -pîtî indicates actions, whereas verbal reduplicatio...

The interpretation of much/many has been argued to be regulated by Uniform Dimensionality (Hackl 2000; Solt 2009): much is underspecified but many encodes cardinality. However, given some data where denotes ‘volume’, Snyder (2021) proposes the need for Multiform Dimensionality: both and are underspecifed. After reviewing English data, in light novel cross-linguistic we argue that neither genera...

Morpho-syntactic tagging is the process of assigning part of speech (POS), case, number, gender, and other morphological information to each word in a corpus. Morpho-syntactic tagging is an important step in natural language processing. Corpora that have been morphologically tagged are very useful both for linguistic research, e.g. finding instances or frequencies of particular constructions in...

Noun phrase conjunction in Akan (Niger-Congo, Kwa) is performed by placing a connective between two noun phrases, but there some variation the forms used major dialects. In Twi dialects ne , Fante speakers may use nye or na depending on whether comitative coordinative interpretation intended. This paper focuses historical origins of n(y)e Akan. It suggests that patterns with other sub-saharan A...