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Series Statement: Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt ; 19

Content: This volume presents new research by the Topoi group "The Conception of Spaces in Language" on the expression of spatial relations in ancient languages. The six articles in this volume discuss static and dynamic aspects of the spatial grammars of Ancient to Medieval Greek, Akkadian, Hittite, and Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian, as well as field data on eight modern languages (Arabic, Hebrew, English, German, Russian, French, Italian, and Spanish). Among the grams discussed are spatial particles, motion verbs, case and, most prominently, spatial prepositions. All ancient language data are fully explained in linguistic word-by-word glosses and are therefore accessible to scholars who are not themselves experts on the respective languages. Taken together, these contributions extend the scope of research on spatial grammar back to the third millennium BCE.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , Einleitung -- , Glossing abbreviations -- , Räumlichkeit in Zentralanatolien -- , On the encoding of ALLATIVE and RECIPIENT in the Greek diachrony -- , ‘Behind’ and ‘in front’ in Ancient Greek. A case study in orientation asymmetry -- , Fortbewegung ohne Bewegungsverben im Griechischen -- , Topologische und projektive Relationen in akkadischen Keilschrifttexten -- , The semantic space of static spatial prepositions in Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian. , Also available in print form. , English

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Series Statement: Studies in Language Companion Series ; v.234

Content: "Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or extra-linguistic predictors, or whether there is a certain amount of unpredictable - or 'free' - grammatical variation. Second, the question of what implications the (in-)existence of free variation would hold for our theoretical models and the empirical study of grammar. The volume provides the first dedicated book-length treatment of this long-standing topic. Following an introductory chapter by the editors, it contains ten case studies on potentially free variation in morphology and syntax drawn from Germanic, Romance, Uralic and Maya"--

Note: Intro -- Free Variation in Grammar -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1 Free variation, unexplained variation? -- On the history of 'free variation' -- Free variation -- Investigating free variation -- This volume -- Identifying and measuring free variation -- Free variation and language change -- Free variation? Look harder! -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Section 1 Identifying and measuring free variation -- Chapter 2 How free is the position of German object pronouns? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What governs the position of object pronouns? -- 3. Experiments 1-3 -- 3.1 Experiment 1 -- 3.1.1 Method -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- Scoring -- 3.1.2 Results -- 3.1.3 Discussion -- 3.2 Experiment 2 -- 3.2.1 Method -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- 3.2.2 Results -- 3.2.3 Discussion -- 3.3 Experiment 3 -- 3.3.1 Method -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- 3.3.2 Results -- 3.3.3 Discussion -- 4. General discussion -- References -- Chapter 3 Optionality in the syntax of Germanic traditional dialects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Non-true optionality (Level 2) -- 2.1 Apparent optionality -- 2.2 Evidence of apparent optionality -- 2.3 Interim summary -- 2.4 False optionality -- 2.5 Evidence of false optionality -- 2.6 Discussion and interim summary -- 3. True optionality -- 3.1 Evidence of true optionality -- 3.2 The simple negation/negative spread alternation from a diachronic perspective -- 4. Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 4 Non-verbal plural number agreement. Between the distributive plural and singular -- 1. Introduction, structure and relevance of the chapter -- 1.1 Distributive plural in the literature -- 1.2 The distributive plural - the general norm and blocking factors -- 1.2.1 Avoidance of ambiguity -- 1.2.2 Fossilisation/the force of invariability. , 1.2.3 Singularisation to achieve generalisation -- 1.2.4 Countability-related factor(s) -- 1.2.5 The wish to indicate joint possession -- 1.2.6 The wish to convey ideas of a figurative, abstract or universal kind -- 1.2.7 Do blocking factors always block? -- 1.2.8 Classification of blocking factors according to their strength -- 2. Free variation -- 3. The distributive plural and singular displayed by selected expressions in English corpora -- 3.1 Methodology -- 3.2 Results -- 3.2.1 Results -- 3.2.2 Results -- 3.3 Comparison of the datasets -- 4. Genre and free variation -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Language corpora & -- dictionaries -- Software -- Chapter 5 'Optional' direct objects: Free variation? -- 1. Human behaviour, flying saucers and the afterlife, or -- 2. Modelling variation -- 2.1 Rules for allophones in free and complementary distribution -- 2.2 Polysemy, polymorphy and partially equivalent distribution -- 3. Valency, constructions and optional complements -- 3.1 Verbs between polysemy and polymorphy -- 3.2 Optional direct objects -- 3.2.1 'Topic drop' -- 3.2.2 'Lexical ellipses' -- 3.2.3 'DNI' vs 'INI' -- 3.2.4 Non-lexical DNI -- 4. Empirical study -- 4.1 Methods -- 4.2 Do activity templates license valency reductions? -- 4.2.1 Setting -- 4.2.2 Results -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A. Cover sheet of questionnaire no. 35, incl. translations and comments -- Appendix B. Results -- Section 2 Free variation and language change -- Chapter 6 Variation and change in the Aanaar Saami conditional perfect -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Saami conditional and its perfect -- 1.2 Data and methods of the present study -- 2. The Aanaar Saami conditional perfect and its variation across the data -- 3. Possible determinants of the variation -- 3.1 Person and number -- 3.2 Main verb. , 3.3 Type of clause -- 3.4 Polarity -- 3.5 Dialect -- 3.6 Speaker generation -- 3.7 Significance and interplay of the variables -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Sources of data and examples -- Chapter 7 Stability of inflectional variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Varying forms -- 2.1 Morphological variation -- 2.2 Overabundance -- 2.3 Free morphological variation -- 2.4 Excursus - phonological variation -- 3. Phenomenon -- 3.1 The Swiss German indefinite article -- 3.2 dat.masc/neutr of the indefinite article in Zurich German -- 3.3 Zurich German -- 4. Corpus study -- 4.1 Data and data collection -- 4.2 Data analysis and results -- 4.2.1 Findings in the historical corpus -- 4.2.2 Findings in the modern corpus -- 4.2.3 Intrapersonal variation -- 5. Emergence of emene and of overabundance -- 6. Results -- 7. Summary -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Resemanticising 'free' variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Development of the V1 conditional in West Germanic -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Coding and behaviour properties of conditional clauses -- 3.2 Corpus -- 3.3 Operationalisation -- 3.4 Model building -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Semantic and syntactic effects -- 4.2 Lexical effects -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- Funding -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Section 3 Free variation? Look harder! -- Chapter 9 Syntactic priming and individual preferences -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Persistence and individual variation -- 3. The case study -- 3.1 Data -- 3.2 Persistence as a predictor of the variation between -ra and -se -- 3.3 Modelling the influence of individual preferences -- 3.4 Discussion of results -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 10 Optionality, variation and categorial properties -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Plural marking in Yucatec -- 3. Variation unexplained. , 3.1 Morphosyntactic analysis of the Yucatec plural marker -- 3.2 Interpretation of the plural morpheme -- 3.2.1 Degree of animacy -- 3.2.2 Argument structure -- 3.2.3 Numerical quantification -- 3.3 Not a case of free variation -- 4. The condition of the variation -- 4.1 Individuation and (pseudo-)partitivity -- 4.2 Analysis -- 4.3 Compositionality -- 4.3.1 Pluralised nouns -- 4.3.2 Numeral-classifiers with bare nouns -- 4.3.3 Numeral classifiers with pluralised nouns -- 5. Further discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Funding -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 11 Variation of deontic constructions in spoken Catalan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Free variation in language -- 3. Deontic verbal constructions in Catalan -- 3.1 Catalan deontic constructions and linguistic factors -- 3.2 Sociolinguistic factors and variation in Catalan -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results -- 6. Discussion of results and possible future lines of research -- 7. Can variationist linguistics prove the (non)existence of free variation? -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.

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Series Statement: Studies in Germanic linguistics (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 3

Content: 'Comparative Grammar' offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along with some attention to the more sparsely attested languages. The sounds and inflections of the oldest Germanic languages are compared, with a view to reconstructing the forms they took in Proto-Germanic and comparing those reconstructed forms with what is known of the Indo-European protolanguage.

Note: Intro -- A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Prosodic Features and the Syllable -- CHAPTER 3. The Vowels of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic -- CHAPTER 4. Changes of Stressed Vowels in Germanic -- CHAPTER 5. The Germanic Vowels in Syllables of Lesser Stress -- CHAPTER 6. Consonants -- CHAPTER 7. Nouns -- CHAPTER 8. Pronouns -- CHAPTER 9. Adjectives -- CHAPTER 10. Numerals -- CHAPTER 11. Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions -- CHAPTER 12. Verbs -- References -- Index verborum.

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Series Statement: Center for the Study of Language and Information 〈Stanford, Calif.〉: CSLI lecture notes 46

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Subjects: German Studies

Keywords: Deutsch ; Thema-Rhema-Gliederung ; Satzanfang ; Deutsch ; Head-driven phrase structure grammar ; Deutsch ; Generative Syntax ; Deutsch ; Generative Grammatik ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift

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Series Statement: Studies in Language and Cognition ; 1

Content: The papers collected in this book cover contemporary and original research on semantic and grammatical issues of nouns and noun phrases, verbs and sentences, and aspects of the combination of nouns and verbs, in a great variety of languages. A special focus is put on noun types, tense and aspect semantics, granularity of verb meaning, and subcompositionality. The investigated languages and language groups include Austronesian, East Asian, Slavic, German, English, Hungarian and Lakhota. The collection provided in this book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students specialising in the fields of semantics, morphology, syntax, typology, and cognitive sciences.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Preface to dup series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' -- , Table of Contents -- , Introduction -- , SEMANTIC AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT OF NOUNS -- , Evidence for four basic noun types from a corpus-linguistic and a psycholinguistic perspective -- , Type shifts and noun class changes under determination in Teop -- , Semantic constraints on multiple case marking in Korean -- , SEMANTIC AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT OF VERBS AND SENTENCES -- , Glück auf, der Steiger kommt: a frame account of extensional and intensional steigen -- , Comparative lexicology and the typology of event descriptions: a programmatic study -- , Spatio-temporal modiVcation and the determination of aspect: a phase-theoretical account -- , The purported Present Perfect Puzzle -- , Phase quantification and frame Theory -- , SEMANTIC AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECTS OF NOUNS AND VERBS -- , She loves you, -ja -ja -ja: objective conjugation and pragmatic possession in Hungarian -- , Black and white Languages -- , Variations of double nominative in Korean and Japanese -- , Definiteness & perfectivity in telic incremental theme predications -- , Referentiality and telicity in Lakhota and Tagalog -- , List of Sebastian Löbner's publications , Issued also in print. , In English.

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Series Statement: Constructional Approaches to Language Series ; v.22

Content: "In constructionist theory, a constructicon is an inventory of constructions making up the full set of linguistic units in a language. In applied practice, it is a set of construction descriptions - a 'dictionary of constructions'. The development of constructicons in the latter sense typically means combining principles of both construction grammar and lexicography, and is probably best characterized as a blend between the two traditions. We call this blend constructicography. The present volume is a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of constructicography. After a general introduction follow six chapters presenting constructicon projects for English, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish, respectively, often in relation to a framenet of the language. In addition, there is a chapter addressing the interplay between linguistics and language technology in constructicon development, and a final chapter exploring the prospects for interlingual constructicography. This is the first major publication devoted to constructicon development and it should be particularly relevant for those interested in construction grammar, frame semantics, lexicography, the relation between grammar and lexicon, or linguistically informed language technology"-- Provided by publisher.

Note: Constructicons and constructicography 1 Chapter 2 The FrameNet constructicon in action 19 Theory meets practice in the Swedish constructicon 41 Chapter 4 Towards continuity between the lexicon and the constructicon in FrameNet Brasil 107 A proposal from the Japanese FrameNet constructicon 141 Filling in the gaps 165 Empirical theoretical and methodological issues 183 Chapter 8 Linguistics vs language technology in constructicon building and use 229 A trilingual comparison between English Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese 255 General index 303 Index of constructions 310 Copyright. , Intro -- Constructicography -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Constructicons and constructicography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Constructions and construction grammar -- 3. Constructicon: language as a network of constructions -- 4. Frame semantics and FrameNet -- 5. Constructicography: construction grammar meets lexicography -- 6. The chapters in this volume -- References -- Chapter 2. The FrameNet constructicon in action -- 1. Introduction -- 2. FrameNet background -- 3. Constructicon terminology -- 4. Choosing a construction and exploring the construction's use -- 5. Defining the be_recip construction -- 6. Annotation -- 7. FrameNet Lexicon-Constructicon analogues -- 8. Summary and conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. Constructicography at work: Theory meets practice in the Swedish constructicon -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Constructicon site: the local context -- 2.1 Språkbanken -- 2.2 SweFN++ - a richly structured lexical macroresource for Swedish -- 3. Building the constructicon -- 3.1 Some brief notes on the constructicon entries -- 3.2 Selection -- 3.3 Construction analyses -- 3.4 Organizing the constructicon entries -- 4. Idealization and variation -- 4.1 Descriptive adequacy: defining grammaticality or characterizing usage? -- 4.2 Accounting for constructional variation -- 5. Constructions and frames -- 5.1 Linking constructions and frames -- 5.2 Frame-bearing constructions -- 5.3 Some non frame-bearing constructions -- 6. Description format -- 6.1 General description -- 6.2 Elaborating the description -- 6.3 Relating and commenting on the constructions -- 7. Using the constructicon -- 7.1 Interface -- 7.2 On potential applications -- 8. Discussion and outlook -- 8.1 Relations between constructicon and FrameNet. , 8.2 From construction dictionary to construction network -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4. Towards continuity between the lexicon and the constructicon in FrameNet Brasil -- 1. Introduction -- 2. FrameNet Brasil -- 2.1 The FN-Br lexicon -- 2.2 The FN-Br constructicon -- 3. Modeling the continuity between grammar and the lexicon -- 3.1 Requirements for modeling the continuity between grammar and the lexicon -- 3.2 FN-Br 2.0 -- 4. Sample analyses -- 4.1 The dative with infinitive construction -- 4.2 The inceptive aspect construction -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5. Relations between frames and constructions: A proposal from the Japanese FrameNet constructicon -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why we need constructicons -- 3. Framenet annotations and constructicon annotations -- 4. Constructions "without meanings" and the use of frames to represent meaning structures of constructions -- 5. Frame-based five-way classification of constructions -- 5.1 Non frame-evoking constructions -- 5.2 Frame-evoking constructions -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 6. A constructicon for Russian: Filling in the gaps -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History and partners -- 3. Russian constructions: What's missing -- 4. Status of the project and examples from the Russian constructicon -- 5. Further research facilitated by the Russian constructicon -- 6. Applications served by the Russian constructicon -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7. Constructing a constructicon for German: Empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Typological considerations -- 2.1 Word order -- 2.2 Case -- 2.3 Constructions at different levels of abstraction -- 3. Contrastive issues -- 4. The 'continuum of constructional correspondences': Consequences for the design of a German constructicon. , 4.1 The just_because_doesn't_mean construction: exemplifying one end of the 'continuum of constructional correspondences' -- 4.2 The family of exclamative constructions: Exemplifying constructions with partial commonalities in German and English -- 4.3 The way construction: Towards the other end of the 'continuum of constructional correspondences' -- 5. Towards a German constructicon -- 6. Conclusions and outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8. Linguistics vs. language technology in constructicon building and use -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some theoretical and methodological observations -- 3. The role of language technology in constructicon population -- 3.1 Towards a lexical macroresource for Swedish language technology -- 3.2 A general lexical infrastructure and a language-aware lexicon editor -- 3.3 Mining corpora for construction candidates with language tools -- 4. Using constructicons in language technology systems -- 4.1 Using the Swedish constructicon for language analysis -- 4.2 The database of Swedish constructions -- 4.3 Grammatical framework -- 4.4 Constructing a computational constructicon -- 4.5 Preliminary analysis of the automatically generated computational constructicon -- 5. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Chapter 9. Aligning constructicons across languages: A trilingual comparison between English, Swedish, and Brazilian Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Contrastive construction grammar -- 1.2 Bilingual lexicography and equivalence -- 1.3 Frame-based computational lexicography -- 2. Comparing constructions across languages -- 2.1 A four step comparison -- 2.2 Methodological remarks -- 3. Comparison of English, Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese constructions -- 3.1 Constructions with high equivalence -- 3.2 Constructions with low equivalence -- 3.3 Constructions with medium equivalence. , 4. Prospects for multilingual constructicography -- 4.1 Computational alignment -- 4.2 Resources for human users -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix. Summary of the contrastive analyses -- General index -- Index of constructions.

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Series Statement: Dissertations in Language and Cognition

Content: Instruments constitute a classic member of the thematic role inventory, yet they are usually analyzed only peripherally, taking a back seat to the more studied members such as Agent and Patient. This dissertation investigates the semantic reality behind the label instrument from the functionalist perspective of Role & Reference Grammar. Starting from a theoretical investigation of what instrumentality truly means when contrasted with related concepts like comitatives, this book explores the morphosyntactic realization of instruments across a wide range of typologically diverse languages. Apart from the standard occurrences of instruments that come to mind from languages such as Latin, German or English, this book delves into several less common constructions that feature the instrument relation. Such constructions include, amongst others, passives with instruments and particularly the Instrument-Subject Alternation, a construction where the instrument seemingly appears as the subject of the sentence. This construction displays variation along three dimensions: 1) The instrument can vary from a very simple tool to a complicated machine, 2) the predicate can vary substantially and 3) languages differ widely with respect to the construction's acceptability. This makes for a complex playing field where the animacy of the instrument but also the aktionsart class of the predicate play a major role. The last section of this book deals with linking the semantics of instruments and related concepts to their morphosyntactic realizations, including the various encoding strategies that are available in any given language. This book also features a concise introduction to Role & Reference Grammar. Dissertations in Language and Cognition: This series explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center 'The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Acknowledgments -- , Contents -- , List of Figures -- , List of Tables -- , List of Abbreviations -- , 1 Introduction -- , 2 Role and Reference Grammar -- , 3 Instruments at the syntaxsemantics interface -- , 4 Semantic range of instruments, agents & forces -- , 5 Instruments and causation: A Force Dynamic view -- , 6 The Instrument-Subject Alternation and subtypes of instruments -- , 7 Delimiting instruments from instrument-like participants -- , 8 Linking semantics to syntax -- , 9 Conclusion: A semantic-syntactic landscape for instruments and related concepts -- , Appendix: Figures -- , References , In English.

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Series Statement: Konvergenz und Divergenz ; 11

Content: Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian languages. It takes its inspiration from the idea of a "Germanic Sandwich", i.e. the hypothesis that sets of genetically related languages diverge in systematic ways in diverse domains of the linguistic system. Its contributions set out to test this approach against new phenomena or data from synchronic, diachronic and, for the first time in a Sandwich-related volume, psycholinguistic perspectives. With topics ranging from nickname formation to the IPP (aka 'Ersatzinfinitiv'), from the grammaticalisation of the definite article to /s/-retraction, and from the role of verb-second order in the acquisition of L2 English to the psycholinguistics of gender, the volume appeals to students and specialists in modern and historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, translation studies, language pedagogy and cognitive science, providing a wealth of fresh insights into the relationships of German with its closest relatives while highlighting the potential inherent in the integration of different methodological traditions.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction - German and Dutch in contrast: synchronic, diachronic and psycholinguistic perspectives -- , Part 1: Synchronic Perspectives -- , Nickname formation in West Germanic: German Jessi and Thomson meet Dutch Jess and Tommie and English J-Bo and Tommo -- , Analogues of the way-construction in German and Dutch: another Germanic sandwich? -- , Lice in the fur of our language? German irrelevance particles between Dutch and English -- , IPP in Afrikaans: a corpus-based investigation and a comparison with Dutch and German -- , Part 2: Diachronic Perspectives -- , The grammaticalisation of definite articles in German, Dutch, and English: a microtypological approach -- , A diachronic contrastive study of sentence-internal capitalisation in Dutch and German -- , Middle High German and modern Flemish s‑retraction in /rs/-clusters -- , Part 3: Psycholinguistic Perspectives -- , The role of verb-second word order for L1 German, Dutch and Norwegian L2 English learners: a grammar competition analysis -- , Syntactic or semantic gender agreement in Dutch, German and German learner Dutch: a speeded grammaticality judgement task -- , Subtle differences, rigorous implications: German and Dutch representation of tense-aspect features in SLA research of Spanish -- , Food for psycholinguistic thought on gender in Dutch and German: a literature review on L1 and L2 production and processing , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Series Statement: Studies in natural language processing

Content: How do infants learn a language? Why and how do languages evolve? How do we understand a sentence? This book explores these questions using recent computational models that shed new light on issues related to language and cognition. The chapters in this collection propose original analyses of specific problems and develop computational models that have been tested and evaluated on real data. Featuring contributions from a diverse group of experts, this interdisciplinary book bridges the gap between natural language processing and cognitive sciences. It is divided into three sections, focusing respectively on models of neural and cognitive processing, data driven methods, and social issues in language evolution. This book will be useful to any researcher and advanced student interested in the analysis of the links between the brain and the language faculty.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Nov 2017). , Cover -- Half title -- Series page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Part I About This Book -- 1 Introduction: Cognitive Issues in Natural Language Processing -- 1.1 On the Relationships between Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Sciences -- 1.2 Recent Issues in Cognitive Aspects of Language Modeling -- 1.3 Content and Structure of the Book -- Part II Models of Neural and Cognitive Processing -- 2 Light and Deep Parsing: A Cognitive Model of Sentence Processing -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 An Interdisciplinary View of Language Processing -- 2.3 The Theoretical Framework: Property Grammars -- 2.4 Chunks, Constructions, and Properties -- 2.5 The Hybrid Architecture -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3 Decoding Language from the Brain -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Grounding Language Architecture in the Brain -- 3.3 Decoding Words in the Brain -- 3.4 Phrases in the Brain -- 3.5 Stories in the Brain -- 3.6 Summary -- 4 Graph Theory Applied to Speech: Insights on Cognitive Deficit Diagnosis and Dream Research -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Semantic Analysis for the Diagnosis of Psychosis -- 4.3 What Is a Speech Graph? -- 4.4 Speech Graphs as a Strategy to Quantify Symptomson Psychosis -- 4.5 Differences in Speech Graphs due to Content (waking dream reports) -- 4.6 Speech Graphs Applied to Dementia -- 4.7 Future Perspectives -- Part III Data Driven Models -- 5 Putting Linguistics Back into Computational Linguistics -- 5.1 Explicit and Implicit Information -- 5.2 Features -- 5.3 Linguistic Computation and Computational Linguistics -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6 A Distributional Model of Verb-Specific Semantic Roles Inferences -- 6.1 Representing and Acquiring Thematic Roles -- 6.2 Characterizing the Semantic Content of Verb Proto-roles -- 6.3 A Distributional Model of Thematic Roles -- 6.4 Experiments with Our Neo-Davidsonian Model. , 6.5 Conclusion -- 7 Native Language Identification on EFCAMDAT -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Data -- 7.3 Methods -- 7.4 Results -- 7.5 Conclusion -- 8 Evaluating Language Acquisition Models: A Utility-Based Look at Bayesian Segmentation -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Early Speech Segmentation -- 8.3 A Bayesian Segmentation Strategy -- 8.4 How Well Does This Work Cross-Linguistically? -- 8.5 How Useful Are the Units? -- 8.6 Closing Thoughts -- Part IV Social and Language Evolution -- 9 Social Evolution of Public Languages: Between Rousseau's Eden and Hobbes' Leviathan -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Is Language a Communication System in the Strong Sense? -- 9.3 What is the Proper Social Account for the Exaptation of Language for Communication? -- 9.4 Conclusion -- 10 Genetic Biases in Language: Computer Models and Experimental Approaches -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Computer Models of Cultural Evolution -- 10.3 Cultural Feedback -- 10.4 Conclusion -- 11 Transparency versus Processing Efficiency: A Case Study on German Declension -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 German Declension: Not as Awful as It Seems -- 11.3 Evaluating the Efficiency of Syncretism -- 11.4 Discussion and Conclusions -- Index.

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Edition: Online-Ausg Farmington Hills, Mich Cengage Gale 2009 Eighteenth Century Collections Online Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web

Uniform Title: Deutsche Sprachlehre für Schulen. 〈engl.〉

Note: English Short Title Catalog, T89185. - Reproduction of original from British Library

Language: English

URL: Volltext

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