unless there is a specific statement to the contrary. The three categories – animate, concrete, abstract are not discrete. They are rendered porous by the polysemy of the English language. A common example is the noun chair, which might be concrete (an item of furniture) or animate (the person responsible for the process of a meeting). Connell and Lynott (2012: 461) cite substitute and kingdom ...

Words expressing spatial relationships in Hittite are synchronically adverbs, not case forms of nouns as sometimes alleged. They are attested in three distinct syntactic roles: postpositions, preverbs, and freestanding adverbs. Some of these local adverbs are inherited from Proto-Indo-European, while others reflect petrified case forms of nouns. Postpositions from inherited local adverbs origin...

In this paper, we present a syntactic approach to the annotation of bridging relations, socalled genitive bridging. We introduce the RuGenBridge corpus for Russian annotated with genitive bridging and compare it to the semantic approach that was applied in the Prague Dependency Treebank for Czech. We discuss some special aspects of bridging resolution for Russian and specifics of bridging annot...

Abstract This paper deals with word-order variation in a situation of language contact. We present corpus-based investigation word order the variety Russian spoken Daghestan, focusing specifically on noun phrases genitive modifier. In Daghestanian Russian, nonstandard GEN+N (prepositive or left genitive) often occurs. At first glance, this phenomenon might be easily explained terms syntactic ca...

In this paper, we present an analysis of nominal anaphora along with a probabilistic model of nominal anaphora resolution. Throughout this work we focus on non-pronominal anaphora. The goal of this work is to present a viable probabilistic model that is consistent with the ideas of theoretical linguistics and the results of experimental psycholinguistics. Where applicable, we present research w...

This paper describes a knowledge-poor anaphora resolution approach based on shallow meaning representation of sentences. Within our representation, we define a new local domain which provides a powerful cue for resolving pronominal anaphora. Other information used included syntactic information, syntactic parallelism and salience weights. We collected 111 singular 3 person pronouns from open do...

This study charts the development of the genitive masculine inflection, one of the most irregular parts of the Polish case-marking system. 72 Polish children aged from 2;3 to 10;8 participated in a nonce word production experiment testing their ability to supply the genitive form and their sensitivity to the semantic factors determining the choice of ending. Results indicate that productivity, ...