Machine Translation from German into Russian did not gain the attention it deserves so far. Especially such typical Russian phenomena like the aspect of verbs complicate the translation process. The known MT approaches do not deal with such problems in a satisfactory way. To overcome this lack, we started the German.Russian translation experiment VIRTEX. We focussed our attention on the crucial...

Machine Translation from German into Russian did not gain the attention it deserves so far. Especially such typical Russian phenomena like the aspect of verbs complicate the translation process. The known MT approaches do not deal with such problems in a satisfactory way. To overcome this lack, we started the German.Russian translation experiment VIRTEX. We focussed our attention on the crucial...

This article investigates differences between Scottish Standard English (SSE) and Southern British (SBSE) in the semantic domain of strong obligation. Focusing on modal verbs must , have to need (have) got we use new corpus material from nineteen written spoken genres component International Corpus (ICE-SCO) corresponding texts ICE-GB. Data are analysed using a mixed-effect multinomial regressi...

The Universal Stanford Dependencies (USD) subordinates function words to content words. Auxiliaries, adpositions and subordinators are positioned as dependents of full verbs and nouns, respectively. Such an approach to the syntax of natural languages is contrary to most work in theoretical syntax in the past 35 years, regardless of whether this work is constituencyor dependency-based. A substan...

The hallmark property of the Russian verbal system is taken to be the bipartite perfective/imperfective distinction in the domain of grammatical aspect. In this paper we show that there is a substantial and productive class of morphologically complex verbs that do not clearly pattern as either perfective or imperfective on standard formal (distributional) tests for perfectivity versus imperfect...

This paper develops an account of mood selection with attitude predicates in French. I start by examining the “contextual commitment” account of mood developed by Paul Portner and Aynat Rubinstein (P&R). I raise empirical and theoretical challenges for P&R’s analysis of contextual commitment and its role in P&R’s explanations of mood selection. There are indicativeselecting verbs that are felic...