A generative theory of emergent syntax aims to reduce UG to a more plausible size, with increased roles for the PLD and a domain-general Minimax acquisition bias. I examine the syntax of imperatives in this light, advancing an analysis that captures the centrality of the addressee. Imperatives provide acquirers with crucial information about their language, from which they actively generalise. ...

Adjectives are one of the major contributors to conveying subjective meaning to sentences. Understanding the semantics of adjectives is essential for understanding natural language sentences. In this paper we propose a novel approach for learning different properties that an adjective can describe, corresponding to the ‘attribute concepts’, which is not currently available in existing linguisti...

The fragment of the Syriac translation Aristotle’s Poetics preserved by Jacob (Severus) Bar Shakko (d. 1241) comprises Poet. VI 1449b24–1450a10. In spite its small size, it serves as an important witness both to Greek text Poetics, and reception this work in Christian Orient and, later on, Muslim world. derives from a translation, which most likely appeared West circles 7th/8th centuries AD ser...

In this paper we present the Spanish version of WordNet 3.0. The English resource includes the glosses (definitions and examples) and the labelling of senses with WordNet identifiers. We have translated the synsets and the glosses to Spanish and alignment has been carried out at word level, whenever possible. The project has produced two interesting results: we have obtained a bilingual (Spanis...

We propose and evaluate a new paradigm for machine translation of low resource languages via the learned surface transduction and paraphrase of multilingual glosses.