The loss of regular case endings in modern German has led to highly syncretic noun paradigms that neutralise many of the distinctions retained in more conservative determiner and adjective paradigms. Genitive and dative are, for all intents and purposes, the only cases marked in noun paradigms. Strong nonfeminine nouns have a genitive singular in -s. Strong nouns whose plural ends in a schwa or...

This paper is about the development of semi-automatic methods to disambiguate genitive attributes of German deverbal nouns. Human listeners use structural and semantic clues to disambiguate these genitives — tools for automatic semantic text analysis, information extraction and information retrieval need to mimic this process by extracting clues from corpus data. I present morphosyntactic and l...

The paper presents the use of preposition za (?for?) in vernacular Eras from Eastern Bosnia, region delimited by rivers Drinjaca, Biostica and Krivaja, slopes Konjuh Romanija. enters constructions with accusative, instrumental genitive. content ample corpus data obtained listening to over 500 hours recorded speech indicated area points its closeness equivalence state idioms Herzegovina- Krajina...

The acquisition of the English past tense inflection is the paradigm example of rule learning in the child language literature and has become something of a test case for theories of language development. This is unfortunate, as the idiosyncratic properties of the English system of marking tense make it a rather unrepresentative example of morphological development. In this paper, I contrast th...

The paper describes a presentation format of grammatical information for language teaching. c-structures and f-structures are represented as graphical annotation to a text. It is advocated that LFG-like concepts are preferable to traditional grammar rules. After an anti-grammar movement in the 1980s we can recognize today a resurgence of interest in the role of grammar in language teaching (Hed...

Noun with genitive marker in Indo-Aryan language can variously be a child of a noun, a verb or a complex predicate, thus making it an important parsing issue. In this paper, we examine genitive data of Hindi and aim to automatically determine the attachment and relational label of the same in a dependency framework. We implement two approaches: a rule based approach and a statistical approach. ...