.........................................................................................................................................................iv Introduction..................................................................................................................................................1 Gender Fluidity, Universality, and Identity Politics................................

For centuries, storytellers and scops recited epics and national, tribal, historical, and religious stories for people, through musical speeches. Some of these narrators wrote down what they recited, and some others dictated them for scribes to be recorded. Some kings and lords also had scops in their courts to recite the stories to scribes. One of the old, oral stories of Persian literature th...

Because of the different characteristics of Arabic language and Romance and Anglo Saxon languages, recognition of documents written in hybrid of these languages requires that the language of the text to be identified priori to the recognition phase. In this paper, three efficient techniques that can be used to discriminate between text written in Arabic script and text written in English script...

0. Introduction Romance clitics, and more precisely, clitic pronouns, have been a topic in generative linguistics since the seventies. For linguists like Perlmutter (1971) and Kayne (1975), their most striking property was their linear order, which is different from the order of the phrases that realize the same grammatical functions. The direct object, e.g., follows the verb when it is noun ph...

This paper presents an analysis of online dating fraud’s geography. Working with real romance scammer dating profiles collected from both proxied and direct connections, we analyse geographic patterns in the targeting and distinct characteristics of dating fraud from different countries, revealing several strong markers indicative of particular national origins having distinctive approaches to ...

Although gender differences are known to exist in the publishing industry and in reader preferences, there is little public systematic evidence about them. This article uses evidence from the book-based social website Goodreads to provide a large scale analysis of 50 major English book genres based on author genders. The results show gender differences in authorship in almost all categories and...

Dating services will be judged by their success in bringing together compatible relationship partners. Thus a dating service has a responsibility to its customers to effectively facilitate this matching. This I take as the fundamental task of an honest dating service. The question of what the psychology literature on human dating can offer dating service designers is a question of how their res...

The C-ORAL-ROM project has delivered a multilingual corpus of spontaneous speech for the main romance languages (Italian, French, Portuguese and Spanish). The collection aims to represent the variety of speech acts performed in everyday language and to enable the description of prosodic and syntactic structures in the four romance languages. Sampling criteria are defined in a corpus design sche...

Many native English speakers (myself included), when first studying a Romance language, are quite surprised and confused by the sheer diversity of inflectional endings that Romance verbs display. While the richer morphological distinctions between different gender and number combinations is not entirely unfathomable due to the somewhat similar distinctions in forms of “be”, particularly fascina...

Comparative Issues in Romanian Syntax held at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada; at the 1996 Going Romance conference held in Utrecht, the Netherlands; at the 1997 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at UC Irvine, and at the 1997 Hopkins Optimality Theory Workshop & University of Maryland Mayfest in Baltimore. I would like to thank audiences at these meetings for th...