1 Introduction The familiar paradigm of Latin first declension nouns in (1) illustrates case syncretism: although at least five cases are recognised, neither the singular nor the plural has five distinct forms: in the singular the genitive and dative are identical, and in the plural the dative and ablative are identical.

This paper investigates the morphosyntax of the Icelandic DP following work by Sigurðsson (1993, 2006); Julien (2005). In addition to providing an analysis of the basic structure of the Icelandic DP, this paper investigates two (apparent) movements within the DP: one involving the definite article suffix -inn, and one involving pronominal possessors (e.g., minn ‘my’). I show that the fronting o...

Evaluation campaigns have become an established way to evaluate automatic systems which tackle the same task. This paper presents the first edition of the Anaphora Resolution Exercise (ARE) and the lessons learnt from it. This first edition focused only on English pronominal anaphora and NP coreference, and was organised as an exploratory exercise where various issues were investigated. ARE pro...

1. Intrcnluction Translation of anaphoric expressions has been problematic in most of the MT systems (Key 1986). One ot' the main reasons for the difficulties lies in the lack of discourse information representation in the MT systems. In this paper, we report an implementation of the Discourse Representation Theory in an LFG-based Engl ishto-Japanese MT program, and discuss problems in translat...

is paper discusses the analysis of some important features of the English possessive construction, a topic that has long interested linguists from many traditions. At least since the work of Jespersen , the properties of English possessives have served as examples and justification for a variety of theories of grammatical organization, and their analysis is certainly a matter of interest in...

In this paper, we analyze certain embedded clauses in Uyghur, a Turkic language spoken in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. We argue i) that genitive case on the subjects of these clauses is licensed by agreement with a clause-external head, and ii) that these clauses are full CPs. Putting these two claims together, we have evidence that Uyghur exhibits agreement and case-assignme...