With the advent of word representations, word similarity tasks are becoming increasing popular as an evaluation metric for the quality of the representations. In this paper, we present manually annotated monolingual word similarity datasets of six Indian languages – Urdu, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Gujarati. These languages are most spoken Indian languages worldwide after Hindi and Ben...

In this paper, we present an analysis of Copular Agreement in Hindi-Urdu. We examine assumed identity copula structures (e.g., For today, I am him.), where show that the broad characterization Hindi-Urdu agreement generalization – ‘agree with highest unmarked DP’ is insufficient: a structurally lower nominal has demonstrable impact on availability higher nominal. This interference arises as fun...

Abstract This essay examines Adabī dunyā , or Literary World to argue for a dialectical relationship between world literature and the Urdu magazine. carved niche itself in competitive Indian magazine ecology by positioning as worldly world-class terms of its content material form. How this publication circulated was inspired educational impetus ‘ ilmī o adabī genre (roughly translatable “educat...

There is a long tradition in the generative literature of interpreting the presence of the by-phrase adjunct in the English passive as the signal of a ‘demoted argument’, in this case, the Agent of the corresponding active (Jaeggli 1986, Grimshaw 1990, Baker et al. 1989) or a Agent feature in the syntax (Embick 2004). In the case of Hindi/Urdu causative constructions, an instrumental se-marked ...

Evaluating athletes’ knowledge of and attitudes toward sports-related concussions is important. However, there limited research involving South Asian athletes, partly due to the lack a valid reliable tool. This study, therefore, aimed translate validate Rosenbaum Concussion Knowledge Attitude Survey—Student Version, an established tool used measure attitude concussion, into Urdu. Version was tr...