I will discuss some aspects of the treatment of finiteness in its various facets given in (1) in the nontransformational theories of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG).1 Due to the way that syntactic information is represented in these approaches, it can be stated at the outset that finiteness is considered to really be a property of a clause. From ...

A morphologic and morphosyntactic analyzer for the Italian language has been implemented in VM/Prolog 131 at the IBM Romc Scientific Center as part of a project on text understanding. Aim of this project is the development of a prototype which analyzes short narrative texts (press agency news) and gives a formal representation of their "meaning" as a set of first order logic expressions. Questi...

The goal of the present study was to investigate the electrophysiological correlates of second-language (L2) morphosyntactic processing in highly proficient late learners of an L2 with long exposure to the L2 environment. ERPs were collected from 22 English-Spanish late learners while they read sentences in which morphosyntactic features of the L2 present or not present in the first language (n...

Abstract Even though the distinction between nouns and verbs is generally considered to be universal, it has been argued for some languages of Northern North America that they lack this distinction. The main argument such assertion in these lexemes denoting entities actions receive same markers, when used as predicates. Guató, an isolate from South America, exhibits a similar phenomenon. In sub...

This study investigates the effect of morphosyntactic differences on our ability to comprehend a closely related language. Previous studies of mutual intelligibility, or receptive bilingualism, have focussed largely on the role of extra-linguistic, lexical, or phonetic factors. Although there is reason to believe that differences in morphology and syntax might worsen the ability to comprehend a...

This paper discusses the results of a comparative study of distributional equivalences among adjectivals in four Slavic languages, namely, Rus-sian, Czech, Polish and Serbo-Croatian. A procedure for determining equivalence is defined, and is applied to the results of analyzing the adjectivals of each language with respect to gender, animateness, and case and number. A appropriate goal for prese...

The paper evaluates tagging techniques on a corpus of Slovene, where we are faced with a large number of possible word-class tags and only a small (hand-tagged) dataset. We report on training and testing of four different taggers on the Slovene MULTEXT-East corpus containing about 100.000 words and 1000 different morphosyntactic tags. Results show, first of all, that training times of the Maxim...

This paper examines a non-canonical morphophonological vowel alternation in the roots of Russian verbs that is conditioned by aspectual information (derived imperfectivization). This aspectual morpheme is usually expressed as a suffix, but in the forms of interest appears as a vocalic nucleus in the root (whereas there is no vocalic nucleus in the perfective form). In a manner broadly compatibl...

This paper presents a number of experiments to model changes in a historical Portuguese corpus composed of literary texts for the purpose of temporal text classification. Algorithms were trained to classify texts with respect to their publication date taking into account lexical variation represented as word n-grams, and morphosyntactic variation represented by part-of-speech (POS) distribution...