Definite Markers, Phi-Features and Agreement: A Morphosyntactic Investigation of the Amharic DP by

Abstract. We show how in a mixed multimodal categorial framework unary modalities can be used to represent morphosyntactic properties of expressions. The residuation logic for the unary connectives, is used to define a feature checking procedure. Each mode represents some morphosyntactic feature. Underspecification is dealt with by assuming general modes that are related to specific instances b...

The morphosyntactic disambiguation of verbs is a crucial pre-processing step for the syntactic analysis of morphologically rich languages like German and domains with complex clause structures like law texts. This paper explores how much linguistically motivated rules can contribute to the task. It introduces an incremental system of verbal morphosyntactic disambiguation that exploits the conce...

This article compares lexical and grammatical abilities of a mental-age-matched sample of Italian preschoolers with Down syndrome (DS), specific language impairment (SLI), or typical development. Results showed that the children with DS or with SLI performed significantly worse than did the typically developing children. Although no significant differences emerged in lexical abilities and morph...

The JOS language resources are meant to facilitate developments of HLT and corpus linguistics for the Slovene language and consist of the morphosyntactic specifications, defining the Slovene morphosyntactic features and tagset; two annotated corpora (jos100k and jos1M); and two web services (a concordancer and text annotation tool). The paper introduces these components, and concentrates on jos...

The study of the conceptual representations that underlie the use of language is a problem motivated from both a cognitive research point of view and that of construing language models for various language processing tasks. In this work, we organized 600 Finnish verbs using the SOM algorithm. Three experiments were conducted using di erent features to encode the verbs: morphosyntactic propertie...

This paper describes methods for the statistical analysis of quantitative data on the distribution of morphosyntactic features. A key problem is the large amount of ambiguity in automatically extracted data. In the paper, I argue for a conservative approach that treats ambiguous instances as counter-evidence. It is nonetheless possible to obtain detailed morphosyntactic information from the cor...

In this paper, we describe experiments on the morphosyntactic annotation of historical language varieties for the example of Middle Low German (MLG), the official language of the German Hanse during the Middle Ages and a dominant language around the Baltic Sea by the time. To our best knowledge, this is the first experiment in automatically producing morphosyntactic annotations for Middle Low G...