The Caucasus has seen numerous crises since the region gained independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some of these crises have not been resolved yet as evidenced by recent Russia-Georgia conflict. This paper seeks to analyze such crises within the framework of significant geopolitical changes unfolded by the collapse of the Soviet Union. The author argues that in the post-Sovi...

The most frequently used variables for language rhythm categorisation have been measured for some tonal languages. Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai and Vietnamese are languages which ground their prosodic properties on phonological tones and are supposed to reserve secondary role to stress whose functions are controversially bounded to prominence patterns of constituency. Therefore, a distinctive char...

Word-level morphosyntactic descriptions, such as “Ncmsn” designating a common masculine singular noun in the nominative, have been developed for all Slavic languages, yet there have been few attempts to arrive at a proposal that would be harmonised across the languages. Standardisation adds to the interchange potential of the resources, making it easier to develop multilingual applications or t...

Chinese text processing systems are using Double Byte Coding , while almost all existing Sanskrit Based Indian Languages have been using Single Byte coding for text processing. Through observation, Chinese Information Processing Technique has already achieved great technical development both in east and west. In contrast, Indian Languages are being processed by computer, more or less, for word ...

versity, Frankfurt am Main. Originally more than 100 abstracts were submitted to the conference, from which 36 were selected for oral presentations and 19 for poster presentations. A number of contributors to the conference subsequently submitted their papers for publication in this issue of Orientalia Suecana, and after the reviewing process, the seven papers below were finally selected for pu...

The case system of most autochthonous East Caucasian languages is marked for a complex system of local case forms that are opposed to a rather restricted set of relational or derivational cases. (1) illustrates the basic paradigmatic make-up of such a system with the help of data from Aghul, an Eastern Samur language of the Lezgian branch (spoken by roughly 8.000 people along the upper regions ...

The processing difficulty profile for relative clauses in Chinese, Japanese and Korean represents a challenge for theories of human parsing.We address this challenge using a grammar-based complexitymetric, one that reflects aminimalist analysis of relative clauses for all three languages as well as structure-dependent corpus distributions. Together, these define a comprehender’s degree of uncer...

This paper describes our third participation in an evaluation campaign involving the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages (NTCIR-6). Our participation is motivated by three objectives: 1) study the retrieval performances of various probabilistic and language models for these languages; 2) compare the relative retrieval effectiveness of a combined “unigram & bigram” indexing scheme combined wi...

Recently new investigations of Sosruko site have been conducted. Unfortunately, the materials not interpreted in proper way. The main task article is to clarify origin stone industries complexes. We suggest that complexes Layers M1 and M2 are related Kobuleti Culture Transcaucasia. This cultural phenomenon appeared beginning 10th millennium BC as a result migration carriers M’lefaat from Middle...

The rhetorical distinction between literal and metaphorical meanings and so semantic and discoursal opacity often associated with idioms is universal. But the format of idioms can stand out, and the means by which the expressions are formed, often drawing on the use of notable objects or events relevant to the native society concerned are often culture bound. These objects and events can often ...