Verbs in West Greenlandic require a special piece of morphology, the antipassive, in order to take narrow-scope indefinite objects. Opaque objects of intensional verbs require the same treatment. This paper develops a semantics for the antipassive morpheme in West Greenlandic that shifts the verb’s object position to a propertytype, providing for the object’s narrow scope, while introducing mod...

Cross-lingual embedding models allow us to project words from different languages into a shared embedding space. This allows us to apply models trained on languages with a lot of data, e.g. English to low-resource languages. In the following, we will survey models that seek to learn cross-lingual embeddings. We will discuss them based on the type of approach and the nature of parallel data that...

Electronic databases are increasingly popular tools in typological research. Despite the advantages of such tools, there are problems connected both with their construction and with their standardization. For instance, there is generally a considerable gap between the information stored in typological databases and primary data: primary morphosyntactic data are much more difficult to handle com...

Considering the narratives of neoliberalism that infuse and inform transnational gestational surrogacy, Bronwyn Parry’s analysis is both timely and insightful. Parry demonstrates that overarching analytical frameworks employed by bioethicists to determine the potential for exploitation in transnational reproductive labour practices miss important contextual factors and the nuances of lived expe...

Joshua May’s paper in this issue is an empirical study of the kinds of emotional responses that people have to human reproductive cloning (see page 26). This study gets its start from the strong claims made against reproductive cloning by Leon Kass and John Kekes. May’s paper is a good example of clearly targeted empirical research that clearly pinpoints empirical claims made in ethics or bioet...

Expression of spatial motion shows wide variation as well as patterned regularities across the world’s languages (Talmy, 2000), and events involving the traversal of a spatial boundary impose the tightest typological constraints in the lexicalization of motion, providing a true test of cross-linguistic differences. Speakers of verb-framed languages are required by their language not to use mann...

This paper focuses on ways of making linguistic annotation tools for documentary linguistics and archiving interoperable without restricting the features of the individual tools. It is assumed that no tool is exclusively used in the process of documenting and archiving a language but a suite of them according to strengths and the user's needs. The tools have frequently been discussed by develop...

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) uses five different particles to express sentential negation: the invariant particle maa, the particle laa and its tensed counterparts lam (PAST) and lan (FUT), and laysa which is marked only for SUBJ agreement. Partial analyses of these elements are offered in other frameworks, notably Minimalism (Shlonsky, 1997; Benmamoun, 2000), but have not to date received an a...

This paper is about the use of a widespread teaching tool: the slide presentation used in face-to-face, systempaced university lessons. It is produced by lecturers to support students’ comprehension during listening; nevertheless it poses elaboration requests to the audience which should be taken into consideration at the planning stage and in formulating its verbal content. The paper reports t...

First, a brief historical trace of the developments in confirmation theory leading up to Goodman’s infamous “grue” paradox is presented. Then, Goodman’s argument is analyzed from both Hempelian and Bayesian perspectives. A guiding analogy is drawn between certain arguments against classical deductive logic, and Goodman’s “grue” argument against classical inductive logic. The upshot of this anal...