Subordination strategies in Tupian languages

Metacognitive (Rending) Strategies Across Languages and Techniques

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Stemming Strategies for European Languages

In this paper, we describe and evaluate different general stemming approaches for the French, Portuguese (Brazilian), German and Hungarian languages. Based on the CLEF test-collections, we demonstrate that light stemming approaches are quite effective for the French, Portuguese and Hungarian languages, and perform reasonably well for the German language. Variations in mean average precision amo...

Strategies for Logic Programming Languages

Logic programs consist of formulas of mathematical logic and various proof-theoretic techniques can be used to design and analyse execution models for such programs. We brieey review the main problems, which are questions that are still elusive in the design of logic programming languages, from a proof-theoretic point of view. Existing strategies which lead to the various languages are all rath...

A comparison of verbal person marking across Tupian languages Uma comparação da marcação verbal de pessoa nas línguas Tupí

this paper explores the diachrony of the verbal person marking system across the large and structurally diverse tupian language family. i argue that the historical development of these different patterns are best informed by analyzing their synchronic distributions with regard to the current evolutionary hypotheses on the family. i apply a parsimony reconstruction model across the topology of t...