This paper deals with the semantics of the Evidential marker in Northern Ostyak. As far as I know, the semantics of grammaticalized Evidentials has not been studied in detail for the (eastern) Uralic languages, although in the modal system of some of them the Evidential category plays an important role. I will analyze the different meanings of the Ostyak Evidentials, and suggest that the appare...

We introduce and motivate an approach for contentbased information retrieval. We consider the corpus formed by real-world web pages as a dynamic and descriptive sample of natural language upon which measures of relevance can be built on. This setting is quite typical in information retrieval, although seldom in relation with the Web. However, we divert also from the information retrieval tradit...

Many theorists have regarded genealogy as an important technique for social criticism. But it has been unclear how genealogy can go beyond the accomplishments of other, more mundane, critical methods. I propose a new approach to understanding the critical potential of history. I argue that theorists have been misled by the assumption that if a claim is deserving of criticism, it is because the ...

The existing literature on Bantu verbal semantics demonstrated that inherent semantic content of verbs pairs directly with the selection of tense, aspect and modality formatives in Bantu languages like Chasu, Lucazi, Lusamia, and Shiyeyi. Thus, the gist of this paper is the articulation of semantic classification of verbs in Kiswahili based on the selection of TAM types. This is because the sem...

A learning framework that combines the two frameworks of explanatory and descriptive In ­ ductive Logic Programming (ILP) is presented. The induced hypotheses in this framework are pairs of the form (T, IC) where T is a defi­ nite clausal theory and IC is a set of integrity constraints. The two components allow us to combine complementary information from the same data by applying both explanat...