Partially filled constructions in some Romance languages. Schematicity and semantic predictability

On the Syllabic Similarities of Romance Languages

In this paper we study the syllabic similarity between Romance languages via rank distance. The results confirm the linguistical theories, bringing a plus of quantification and rigor. 1 The Syllabic Similarity of Romance Languages The problem of classifying Romance languages is an intensely studied issue. Unfortunately, in many studies of this kind, the data referring to Romanian are incomplete...

On the Romance Languages Mutual Intelligibility

We propose a method for computing the similarity of natural languages and for clustering them based on their lexical similarity. Our study provides evidence to be used in the investigation of the written intelligibility, i.e., the ability of people writing in different languages to understand one another without prior knowledge of foreign languages. We account for etymons and cognates, we quant...

Modifying Pappi to Account for Romance Languages

The lexical representation of nouns and ajectives in romance languages

This paper discusses such issues as the format under which lexical units are stored in memory, the way in which inflection and derivation interact, and the definition of morphological units, such as stem, root, word form, etc. More largely, two competing models of morphological competence, a “units-plusrules” model and a global model based on analogy, are discussed. The main focus is on nouns a...

Productivity and Schematicity in Metaphors

The theory of metaphor proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980a, 1980b) and Lakoff (1993) involves a mapping of conceptual structure from one semantic domain to another. We investigate properties of these conceptual domain mappings by comparing them to morphological derivational relations. Schematicity and productivity are properties that Bybee (1985) and Langacker (1987) propose for characterizin...