One of the key aspects of HPSG theories on Germanic and Romance languages is the lexical speciication of verbs selecting a verbal complement. Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1989) showed how the idea of functional composition from categorial grammar can be expressed as part of the speciication of a lexical entry, and versions of this argument raising speciication have since been used in most work on Ger...

Beyond its traditional function, phonology has been demonstrated to play a significant role in the gender marking of given names some Germanic languages. However, this significance not investigated for Semitic languages, including Arabic. Therefore, irrespective classical gender-identification approaches (i.e., familiarity, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics), present study examines whether ...

Homophony is ubiquitous across languages. It is an important source of ambiguity which is a distinctive feature of human language. There have been, however, few quantitative investigations on questions such as “do languages have similar degrees of homophony?”, “can the degree of homophony in a language be predictable?”. We report a preliminary attempt to answer these questions. We measure the d...

The annotation of morphology, syntax and information structure in a multilayered diachronic corpus This paper describes the annotation scheme we use for old Germanic and Romance languages, with particular focus on syntax and information structure, and the issues of economy and disambiguation. We also discuss some of the annotation problems we have had to solve, in order to demonstrate the compl...

In a recent interdisciplinary study, Das et al. have attempted to trace the homeland of Ashkenazi Jews and of their historical language, Yiddish (Das et al. 2016 Localizing Ashkenazic Jews to Primeval Villages in the Ancient Iranian Lands of Ashkenaz. Genome Biol Evol. 8:1132-1149). Das et al. applied the geographic population structure (GPS) method to autosomal genotyping data and inferred geo...

In this article, I discuss a type of proper name that is rarely discussed among linguistics and researchers, however often found the category commercial names in linguistic landscapes cities. The differs from other types due to its Danish unconventional structure having part compound describes locality as first expression, e.g. Café Sommersko, not last compound, *Sommerskocaféen common Germanic...

Abstract As in many other Germanic languages, Modern Danish combines the verb få ‘get’ and a semantic main supine form (the uninflected perfect participle). Three types of construction are found: an agentive type typically interpreted as expressing successful intentional action two non-agentive types: one with ditransitive promotion indirect object to subject status, non-valency-bound Beneficia...

The purpose of the article is to reveal features study relict Paleo-Balkan languages in their connection with other Indo-European linguistics second half XIX century – beginning XXI century. It noted that when identifying a group languages, single criterion has not yet been clearly established: both areal and genetic principles are involved. At same time material fully taken into account geneal...