Palatalisation of the velars ⁄k, g ⁄ in Gallo-Romance applied not just before the usual front vowels ⁄ i, e, e ⁄ but also, famously, before the low vowel ⁄a ⁄ . Various scenarios have been proposed regarding the phonetic realisation of ⁄a ⁄ and its relation to palatalisation. I argue that ⁄a ⁄ was allophonically fronted to [æ] in stressed open syllables, where the vowel eventually merged with ⁄...

This paper looks at mismatching phenomena in Romance languages that appear between verbs and pronouns (or similarly used nouns) when expressing the first person (plural and singular). It is well known that, relative to other pronouns, first person pronouns are more easily subject to meaning shift as well as to replacement by other expressions. This can be attributed to the pivotal function of f...

The automatic discovery and clustering of morphologically related words is an important problem with several practical applications. This paper describes the evaluation of word clusters carried out through crowd-sourcing techniques for the Maltese language. The hybrid (Semitic-Romance) nature of Maltese morphology, together with the fact that no large-scale lexical resources are available for M...

This study explores methods for developing Machine Translation dictionaries on the basis of word frequency lists coming from comparable corpora. We investigate (1) various methods to measure the similarity of cognates between related languages, (2) detection and removal of noisy cognate translations using SVM ranking. We show preliminary results on several Romance and Slavonic languages.

Recently there has been much work in surface constraint-based frameworks on complex predicate constructions (causative and light verb constructions), that are found in Romance and other languages. Manning et al. forthcoming). The enthusiasm for this area comes from the fact that these constructions contradict certain of the assumptions of early work in surface constraint-based frameworks. Never...

This book is difficult to place, it is not clear to what section of the public it is addressed. The author is a scientific man and has published a volume of poems, and it has been said that in this book he shows how in the hands of a poet science wins warmth and colour. The medical man will not find much that is new, but his knowledge is presented to him in a new, vivid and imaginative way whic...

A senior member of the medical profession at that time was the then Mr. and now Tan Sri Abdul Majid bin Ismail who had a distinct vision of how the Malayani· sation of the medical services could be brought about rapidly. He inspired his friends and colleagues in the profession, individually and collectively, to prepare themselves for post-graduate studies in the specialities of their choice so ...

Romance fraud uses the guise of a genuine relationship to deceive victim into transferring often large amounts money an offender/s. has been in top three categories financial loss for Australian victims over past decade, and this is trend mirrored internationally. However, recent years there convergence romance investment approaches. Terms such as baiting, cryptorom ‘pig butchering' have all em...