As my title suggests, this position paper focuses on the relevance of linguistics in NLP instead of asking the inverse question. Although the question about the role of computational linguistics in the study of language may theoretically be much more interesting than the selected topic, I feel that my choice is more appropriate for the purpose and context of this workshop. This position paper s...

This dissertation concerns the morphophonological alternation of lexical items, determined by syntactic position. It considers three types of inflection, positional allomorphy and certain examples of phenomena collectively called "contraction", and argues that the notion of lexical insertion into d-structure, underlying many current syntactic theories, has difficulty in accounting for these cas...

This paper presents an on-going Natural Language Processing (NLP) research based on Lexicon-Grammar (LG) and aimed at improving knowledge management of Cultural Heritage (CH) domain. We intend to demonstrate how our language formalization technique can be applied for both processing and populating a domain ontology. We also use NLP techniques for text extraction and mining to fill information g...

Numeracy is a paradigmatic example of the close dovetailing of culture, language, and cognition. The two systems central to the numerical competence—one for the exact representation of small numbers and one for the approximation of larger numbers—are relatively old in phylogenetic terms and available almost from birth. Together, they provide the basis for the specifically human ability to also ...

The origins of human language, with its extraordinarily complex structure and multitude of functions, remains among the most challenging problems for evolutionary biology and the cognitive sciences. Although many will agree progress on this issue would have important consequences for linguistic theory, many remain sceptical about whether the topic is amenable to rigorous, scientific research at...

In his classic article in the first number of this journal (Sapir 1938) and in many other writings, Edward Sapir urged that a true social science, including an understanding of the nature and working of culture, must necessarily be founded on an understanding of the individuals who participate in culture and society: “In the psychological sense, culture is not the thing that is given us. The cu...

Abstract: Paying attention to the frequency of use is also a key aspect in characterization literary style. In this case, linguistic resources utilized by authors are important because they contextualize them within their time, context, and cultural movement. Rare linguistics elements not less relevant, that those used only one or few authors.We analyze examples confirm methodological relevance...

In the Finnish National Core Curriculum for Compulsory Education (2014), conception of language is based on communal and functional linguistics model language. From perspectives teaching learning, this requires that learning contexts pedagogies enable in such environments, roles, processes where pupil can think act authentically, according to his or her age (National 2014). Thus, article we exa...

Natural disasters, such as what are known in English ‘floods’ and ‘wildfires’, increasingly a topic of concern due to the climate emergency, their vocabulary public discourses hold much be explored through linguistics. This article inaugurates examination discourse about extreme weather events semantically-enhanced studies, an approach which is based on Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) developed her...