As the body of research on abusive language detection and analysis grows, there is a need for critical consideration of the relationships between different subtasks that have been grouped under this label. Based on work on hate speech, cyberbullying, and online abuse we propose a typology that captures central similarities and differences between subtasks and we discuss its implications for dat...

1 Proponents of a ’feature pool’ approach to creolization (e.g. Mufwene 2001, Aboh 2 Ansaldo 2006) have claimed that the emergence of the new grammar is driven by 3 the syntax-discourse prominence, markedness and frequency of available features, 4 with typological similarity or dissimilarity of the languages involved playing a cru5 cial role in the competition and selection process. This paper ...

At least 40 spoken languages form the large tupi family in its subfamilies tupi-Guaraní, Mawé, Aweti, Arikém, Juruna, Mondé, tupari, Mundurukú, ramarama and Puruborá, providing a wealth of data for linguistic studies about variation – variation explained by genetic relations (common origin, ultimately from the presumed language ‘proto-tupi’) or by contact relations with other indigenous or non-...

Visually grounded paraphrases (VGPs) are different phrasal expressions describing the same visual concept in an image. Previous studies treat VGP identification as a binary classification task, which ignores various phenomena behind VGPs (i.e., linguistic interpretation of concept) such and from aspects. In this paper, we propose semantic typology for VGPs, aiming to elucidate deepen understand...

That is why the syntax of a natural language ~ not be described by the rules of the syntax of a formal language. And that is why a natural language cannot be parsed the same way as a formal language. To parse a natural language, it would be necessary to know its syntax, Thus, major difficulties in parsing a natural language are not algorithmic but linguistic. Here, I assume that natural languag...

Functionalist typologists have long argued that pressures associated with language usage influence the distribution of grammatical properties across the world's languages. Specifically, grammatical properties may be observed more often across languages because they improve a language's utility or decrease its complexity. While this approach to the study of typology offers the potential of expla...

According to classical arguments, language learning is both facilitated and constrained by cognitive biases. These biases are reflected in linguistic typology-the distribution of linguistic patterns across the world's languages-and can be probed with artificial grammar experiments on child and adult learners. Beginning with a widely successful approach to typology (Optimality Theory), and adapt...

Motion events typically involve an entity moving along a path in a certain manner. Research on language typology has identified three types of languages based on the characteristic expression of manner and path information. In satellite-framed languages, the main verb expresses information about manner of movement and a subordinate satellite element (e.g., a verb particle) to the verb conveys t...