Processing of the English language is overwhelmingly mainstream in computational linguistics. This text claims that this situation is neither healthy for computational linguistics nor theoretically tenable.

This paper describes a Computational Linguistics course designed for Linguistics students. The course is structured around the architecture of a Spoken Dialogue System and makes extensive use of the dialogue system tools and examples available in the Regulus Open Source Project. Although only a quarter long course, students learn Computational Linguistics and programming sufficient to build the...

In response to the lack of culturally sustaining pedagogies for Black students in linguistics, we created an online Introduction Linguistics course designed as part a specially funded research program that serves undergraduates from Historically Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) well Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). recognition fact conventional introductory linguistics courses often al...

1 Pān. ini’s grammar Pān. ini’s grammar (ca. 500 B.C.) seeks to provide a complete, maximally concise, and theoretically consistent analysis of Sanskrit grammatical structure. It is the foundation of all traditional and modern analyses of Sanskrit, as well as having great historical and theoretical interest in its own right. Western grammatical theory has been influenced by it at every stage of...

Unificationand constraint-based unification formalisms have been used widely to write natural-language grammars. There have nevertheless always been problems with the coverage of the grammars, due to too restrictive an interpretation of what the grammar described. Several approaches have been proposed, relaxing different requirements. Many of these however are ad hoc and rely on properties of a...

The study of linguistic variation requires a familiarity with both the basic tools of qualitative linguistic analysis and quantitative methods of for pursuing that analysis to deeper levels. This presentation will assume a basic familiarity with both sets of tools, and focus upon how theyt are used to address the major questions of linguistic structure and linguistic change. Given the output of...

This talk discusses some o f the challenges posed for theoretical linguistics by transla­ tional problems. It briefly discusses different aspects o f the concept o f translational equivalence and the degree to which this relation may be captured by machine translation (MT) systems. It is argued that the formal requirements and multilingual perspective of MT provide new criteria o f adequacy for...

The first part of the article offers an historical overview of metaphors, starting from Aristotle and the classical definition of metaphor. Chomsky's contribution to cognitive psychology is also mentioned together with Rosch’s and Kay and McDaniel’s research concerning categorization. The end of the first part contains new theories of metaphor, thus establishing the link to the second part, whi...

This article surveys a selected variety of statistical methods that are currently used in experimental and observational studies in linguistics. It covers goodness-of-fit tests, monoand multifactorial hypothesis testing methods, and hypothesis-generating techniques. In addition, for the two major sections of significance testing and exploratory methods, the article also discusses a wide range o...