The article is a systematic, corpus-based account of Latin’s influence on the position Old English (OE) adnominal adjectives. While multiple studies phrase-level syntax suggest that source-text interference may have been partly responsible for placing adjective after head noun, this observation has so far received little quantitative underpinning. present offers detailed comparison OE target no...

This dataset contains 2,818 trait descriptive adjectives in English and information about the extent to which each term is known among a large approximately representative sample of U.S. adults. The list personality-related terms includes all 1,710 previously studied by Goldberg (1982) draws on prior work Allport Odbert (1936) Norman (1967). were respondents was based administration vocabulary ...

The present paper describes the identification of prominent characters and their adjectives from Indian mythological epic, Mahabharata, written in English texts. However, in contrast to the traditional approaches of named entity identification, the present system extracts hidden attributes associated with each of the characters (e.g., character adjectives). We observed distinct phrase level lin...

The present study uses variationist sociolinguistic methods to examine the intensifier system in Oslo Norwegian. Results indicate that both linguistic and social factors influence use. Predicative adjectives were intensified more frequently than attributive adjectives, women used intensifiers men, younger speakers had higher intensification rates older speakers. Apparent time analyses also reve...

This paper explores whether words used to describe pipe organ ensembles have correlation with specific spectral features. Similar previous work has concentrated on single pipes in anechoic conditions (e.g. Rioux, 2001). This work examines pipe organ ensembles as a cohesive whole. Ninety-nine English-speaking subjects were asked to describe recordings of pipe organs. From the many timbral adject...

Usage-Based theoreticians have argued that children make the biggest strides in learning to use many adult-like grammatical rules in the preschool years. This argument is based on how children use novel verbs in verb clauses: many Englishspeaking 2-year olds are willing to use novel verbs in ungrammatical order; by 4, few children are willing to use novel verbs in a non-SVO order. In verb claus...

English. This paper describes a theoretical and empirical investigation about the position of adjectives in the Italian language. The long term goal which oriented the study is the formalization of this information into a natural language generation system. Providing that adjectives mainly occur within noun phrases, we focused on them and we collected data from corpora representing very differe...

The aim of this study was to compare oral fluency strategies of Spanish-English bilinguals in Spanish and English with Spanish and English monolinguals when given either phonemic (alphabetical) or semantic categorical cues. The use of grammatical words (words that play a grammatical function relating words within a sentence) or content words (words that have a meaning such as nouns, verbs, and ...

Two kinds of dogmatism afflict the study of English grammar. They have more in common than is widely realized. On one side we have tradition-bound fundamentalists who take the rules to be clear and simple regulative principles laid down centuries ago by unquestionable authorities. On the other, we have theoretical linguists, who correctly take grammatical principles as a topic for discovery rat...