This paper describes the Southern Pomo switch-reference system used in narrative texts. In this genre, is shown to be canonical: suffixes applied dependent verbs indicate whether or not subject of verb shared with a single TAM-bearing main verb. compared systems (or lack thereof) reported for other six Pomoan languages. Only Kashaya have same system. The five languages different none at all. It...

In this paper we present preliminary work conducted on semi-automatic induction of inflectional paradigms from non annotated corpora using the open-source tool Linguistica (Goldsmith 2001) that can be utilized without any prior knowledge of the language. The aim is to induce morphology information from corpora such as to compare languages and foresee the difficulty to develop morphosyntactic le...

This paper presents an LFG-based analysis of Wolof valency-changing suffixes found in applicative and causative constructions. The analysis addresses the particular issue of applicative-causative polysemy in this language. Similar to the work for Indonesian (Arka et al., 2009), I adopt an LFG-based predicate composition approach of complex predicate formation (Alsina, 1996; Butt, 1995), and ext...

During this CLEF evaluation campaign, the first objective is to propose and evaluate various indexing and search strategies for the Czech language that will hopefully result in more effective retrieval than language-independent approaches (n-gram). Based on the stemming strategy we developed for other languages, we propose that for the Slavic language a light stemmer (inflectional only) and als...