We propose an analysis of the morphology of dative-nominative passives in Icelandic. This account is based on a previous proposal of active predicates which alternate between a dative-nominative and nominative-dative case frame (Wood and Sigurðsson 2014). We show that obligatory agreement with the nominative in the passive is the consequence of the absence of the dative intervention effect whic...

The use of morphology is particularly interesting in the context of statistical machine translation in order to reduce data sparseness and compensate any lack of training corpus. In this work, we propose several approaches to introduce morphology knowledge into a standard phrase-based machine translation system. We provide word segmentation using two different tools (COGROO and MORFESSOR) which...

Knowledge about the smallest meaningful units of language, morphemes, is crucial for vocabulary and reading comprehension. This meta-analysis 43 studies examined differences in morphological knowledge societal language between language-minority language-majority children. There was a moderate to large mean group difference favor Studies that inflectional (walk–walked, rose–roses) reported large...

In this paper we propose a method for automatically assigning narrative roles to characters in stories. To achieve this goal our proposal is to combine natural language processing techniques with domain knowledge extracted from Propp’s morphology of the folktale.

This paper explores the use of a character segment based character correction model, language modeling, and shallow morphology for Arabic OCR error correction. Experimentation shows that character segment based correction is superior to single character correction and that language modeling boosts correction, by improving the ranking of candidate corrections, while shallow morphology had a smal...

Sign languages use space because they can. 1 In previous work on verb agreement in sign languages, we have discussed " the ability of a language produced in space to represent certain spatial and visual concepts iconically " (Aronoff, Meir, & Sandler, 2005). We resolved in that work what we called " the paradox of sign language morphology. " Although all sign languages that had been well studie...

The aim of this work is to present some preliminary results of an investigation in course on the typology of the morphology of the native South American languages from the point of view of the formal language theory. With this object, we give two contrasting examples of descriptions of two Aboriginal languages finite verb forms morphology: Argentinean Quechua (quichua santiagueño) and Toba. The...