To investigate how morphological constraints affect lexical access, results of an experiment on grammatical gender priming in German are reported. In a " continuous picture-naming " (CPN) task, large and reliable differences in naming times were found between pictures preceded by gender-congruent contexts and pictures preceded by a zero-gender baseline, suggesting that grammatical gender can fa...

Our work on author identification and author profiling is based on the question: Can the number and the types of grammatical errors serve as indicators for a specific author or a group of people? In order to detect the grammatical errors we base our approach on the output of the open-source library LanguageTool. In the case of the author identification we transform the problem into a statistica...

The alignment of a bilingual corpus is an important step in data preparation for data-driven machine translation. LFG f-structures provide bilexical labelled dependencies in the form of lemmas and core grammatical functions linking those lemmas, but also important grammatical features (TENSE, NUMBER, CASE, etc.) representing morphological and semantic information. These grammatical features can...

In his recent article Deutscher (2009: 199) suggests that “nominalization is an unsung hero in the story of subordination”. He goes on to say that “[t]he ability to derive a noun from a verb, that is, to reify a verbal predicate and present it as a nominal argument or modifier, is the core of subordination”. While Deutscher (2009) believes that the relevant nominalization for his study is “deri...