Several recent studies have taken the approach that the word order variation in Early New High German (1300-1600) is indicative of a change in the underlying syntax. In this thesis, I argue that Early New High German (ENHG) was solidly verb-final in structure throughout its history and that the evidence for the existence of structurally INFL-medial sentences in ENHG is not convincing. I find no...

An important tenet of LFG is the lexical integrity principle which says that the leaves of c structure trees are complete surface words Given this principle the morphological component is seen as distinct from the syntax It can be modelled by sublexical rules as we will illustrate below but the principles that apply to these rules are di erent from those applying in the syntax see Bresnan and M...

Traditionally, the term serial verb construction refers to a sequence of verbs or verb phrases in a sentence in which there is no intervening conjunction. The English expression go eat, for example, might be considered as a kind of serial verb construction since there is no infinitive or other morphosyntactic marker present to indicate a coordinating or subordinating relationship between the tw...

the third person singular enclitic verb /-ast/ which is equivalent to english verb “is” undergoes the highest number of  phonological processes among persian enclitic forms of the verb “boudan” (to be); it changes to [as] in one environment, to [s] in another, and to [e] in four environments. deletion of /t/ is common in all six contexts. these different pronunciations are determined by various...

The present study discusses typology and variation of word order patterns in nominal verb structures across 20 Chinese languages compares them with another 43 from the Sino-Tibetan family. methods employed are internal external historical reconstruction correlation studies linguistic sociolinguistics. results show that head-final tendency is a baseline family, but individual differ by degree he...

Our QA system consists of two different components. One is for the factoid and list questions, and the other is for the other questions. The components are processed individually, and each result is combined into our submitted run. For the factoid questions, we have tried to find answers by proximity-based named entity search. Given a question, fine-grained named entities for candidate answers ...

Our QA system consists of two different components. One is for the factoid and list questions, and the other is for the other questions. The components are processed individually, and each result is combined into our submitted run. For the factoid questions, we have tried to find answers by proximity-based named entity search. Given a question, fine-grained named entities for candidate answers ...

This paper introduces a method to incorporate linguistic knowledge regarding verb forms into an stochastic machine translation model. By means of a rule-based classification of these forms, and by substituting them by the base form of the head verb during the training stage, we achieve a better statistical word alignment, which leads to a better estimate of the translation model. Furthermore, a...