Abstract This paper explores the middle voice in Kagulu, a Bantu language of Tanzania. Although not traditionally recognized languages, recent research has asserted that is attested some languages. We propose eight affixes might be considered markers, Kagulu two are part system, each one coding different detransitivizing voices. argue that, from diachronic viewpoint, underdeveloped syncretism K...

Phrases has a long history in information retrieval, particularly in commercial systems. Implicit semantic relationship between words in a form of BaseNP have shown significant improvement in term of precision in many IR studies. Our research focuses on linguistic phrases which is language dependent. Our results show that using BaseNP can improve performance although above 62% of words formatio...

We propose an unsupervised training method to guide the learning of Malay derivational morphology from a set of morphological segmentations produced by a naı̈ve morphological analyzer. Using a morphology-based language model, we first estimate the probability of a given segmentation. We train the model with EM to find the segmentation that maximizes the probability of each morpheme. We extract t...

Modern English approaches the ideal of an isolating language. Open-class items have comparatively few forms, so that many inflectional categories either remain unmarked, or are expressed periphrastically. The inflectional system is particularly simple, even by the standards of a West Germanic language. Regular paradigms contain at most four forms, and the inflectional exponents that distinguish...

In the IBM LMT machine translation system, derivational morphological rules recognize and analyze words that are not found in its source lexicons, and generate default transfers for these unlisted words. Unfound words with no inflectional or derivational affixes are by default nouns. These rules are now expanded to provide lexical coverage of a particular set of words created on the fly in emai...

A patient is described who makes morphological errors in spontaneous sentence production and in repetition of single words. The great majority of these errors were substitutions of inflectional affixes. The patient did make some derivational errors in repeating derived words but almost never made such errors for nonderived words. The inflectional errors for adjectives and nouns occurred mostly ...