Language Mixing and Diachronic Change: American Norwegian Noun Phrases Then and Now

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Interaction Grammar for the Persian Language: Noun and Adjectival Phrases

In this paper we propose a modelization of the construction of Persian noun and adjectival phrases in a phrase structure grammar. This modelization uses the Interaction Grammar (IG) formalism by taking advantage of the polarities on features and tree descriptions for the various constructions that we studied. The proposed grammar was implemented with a Metagrammar compiler named XMG. A small te...

The American National Corpus: Then, Now, and Tomorrow

The ANC was motivated by developers of major linguistic resources such as FrameNet and Nomlex, who had been extracting usage examples from the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC), the largest corpus of English across several genres that was available at the time. These examples, which served as the basis for developing templates for the description of semantic arguments and the like,...

Frequency effects in language acquisition, language use, and diachronic change

Recent work in psychology and linguistics has shown that frequency of occurrence is an important determinant of language acquisition, language use, and diachronic change. This paper surveys the effects of frequency on the use and development of language and considers the psychological mechanisms that underlie the various frequency effects. The paper shows that frequency has an impact on the eme...

Schizophrenia: Then and Now