Most of the work that has gone into compiling English-language corpora since the pioneering Brown Corpus in the 1960s has been devoted to American or British English, which are the standard languages of the two societies with the largest communities of English-speaking computational linguists, and the English varieties with most significance in the context of commercial language engineering. Bu...

We compared the notational activity of 68 referees and 170 referee's assistants or linesmen officiating European matches from UEFA and the Champions League together with matches from the English Premiership and the English Championship competitions during the 2005/2006 football season using a computerised video system. We studied 328 games (14 European matches, UEFA and Champions league, 202 ma...

Singapore English is a nativised variety of English, which comes in essentially two forms: Standard Singapore English and Colloquial Singapore English. This article describes the sound system and the grammar of this variety, including an overview of the local vocabulary. A concluding section explains the various models that have been proposed to explain that variation in Singapore English, incl...

This paper presents a preliminary work on aligning Turkish and English parallel texts towards developing a statistical machine translation system for English and Turkish. To avoid the data sparseness problem and to uncover relations between sublexical components of words such as morphemes, we have converted our parallel texts to a morphemic representation and then used standard word alignment a...

Grimshaw (1997) gives an optimality theoretic analysis of English dosupport. She also claims that due to a different constraint ranking, a language like German does not have the equivalent to English semantically empty do. In this article we present a counterexample to this claim: semantically empty do is obligatorily inserted with VP topicalization in Standard German. In support of these data,...