Clinical and technical information imparted in most African languages involves inexact terminology and code switching, so it lacks the explanatory power characterised by the English language. African languages are absent in the tertiary science education environment and forums where African scientists could present scientific material in the medium of African languages. This limits the developm...

Word-level morphosyntactic descriptions, such as “Ncmsn” designating a common masculine singular noun in the nominative, have been developed for all Slavic languages, yet there have been few attempts to arrive at a proposal that would be harmonised across the languages. Standardisation adds to the interchange potential of the resources, making it easier to develop multilingual applications or t...

This article presents a discussion of differences between the Slavic languages regarding the historical productivity of -no ̨as an aspectual suffix. It is shown that a class of prefixed pf a-stem/n-stem doublets has been more productive in a group of western languages (primarily Czech, Slovak, Upper Sorbian) and that this productivity declines in the languages farther to the east, reaching a min...

Abstract On the basis of a sample 424 languages or dialects, this article provides typological-comparative investigation designations for three major internal organs torso, ‘heart’, ‘liver’, and ‘lungs’. While colexification patterns are relatively unconstrained, data show skewing in morphologically complex terms: ‘heart’ ‘liver’ often serve as head nouns terms ‘lungs’, but reverse is rare. Ano...

New elements have been added to the picture that appears be composed of many different languages, religions and nationalities in Ottoman social structure, with migrations from Caucasus, Crimea Balkans since 19th century. One among them is Turkish Muslim Crimean people. With this research; Examining policies adopted by Empire settlement Tatars, support they provided immigrants during resettlemen...

The paper presents the MULTEXT-East language resources for the Serbian language. MULTEXT-East is a multilingual dataset for language engineering research and development. This standardised and linked set of resources covers a large number of mainly Central and Eastern European languages and includes the EAGLES-based morphosyntactic specifications, defining the features that describe wordlevel s...

Abstract When a communicator faces word-formulation problem, they may use placeholder (PH) such as whatchamacallit to avoid producing target expression or delay it. A PH is dummy element used fill in the syntactic slot of item that unable unwilling produce (e.g. due memory lapse). Previous studies have generally been concerned with grammatically stable PHs , you-know-what ), ‘grammatically stab...

Tremendous amount of images are used on modern Web pages, but images are rarely used in everyday communication via e-mail, SMS, SNS, etc., although many communication systems allow the use of images in the message. We believe that images can greatly enhance the quality of communication if they are appropriately used with alphabetical texts, and we created a text input system with which users ca...