This article has two goals: descriptive and theoretical. On the side, presents a grammar of gliding epenthesis Upper Sorbian. The goal is worthy because Sorbian highly complex but regular productive system epenthesis. stands out from typological point view it ten [ sic ] different strategies to satisfy O nset . theoretical question whether Optimality Theory that been designed solve conspiracies...

Psycholinguistic research on the processing of morphologically complex words has largely focused debates about how/if lexical stems are recognized, stored, and retrieved. Comparatively little investigated similar issues for functional affixes. In Word or Lexeme Based Morphology (Aronoff 1994), affixes not representational units par with roots. This view is in stark contrast to claims linguistic...

Conformational entropy for atomic-level, three dimensional biomolecules is known experimentally to play an important role in protein-ligand discrimination, yet reliable computation of entropy remains a difficult problem. Here we describe the first two accurate and efficient algorithms to compute the conformational entropy for RNA secondary structures, with respect to the Turner energy model, wh...

Several other chapters in this book analyze grammatical phenomena according to the architectural assumptions and constraint-based representational apparatus of lexicalist theories of grammar; in the present chapter, we ask some fundamental questions concerning what it means for a theory to be lexicalist. While critically assessing some consensus beliefs among lexicalists, this exploration will ...

Derivationally related lemmas like friendN – friendlyA – friendshipN are derived from a common stem. Frequently, their meanings are also systematically related. However, there are also many examples of derivationally related lemma pairs whose meanings differ substantially, e.g., objectN – objectiveN . Most broad-coverage derivational lexicons do not reflect this distinction, mixing up semantica...

USING MULTIPLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION FOR CONSTRAINT BASED MORPHOLOGICAL DISAMBIGUATION G okhan T ur M S in Computer Engineering and Information Science Supervisor Asst Prof Kemal O azer July This thesis presents a constraint based morphological disambiguation approach that is applicable to languages with complex morphology speci cally agglutina tive languages with productive in ectional and de...

Vijay-Shanker et al. (1987) note that many interesting linguistic formalisms can be thought of as having essentially context-free structure, but operating over objects richer than simple strings (sequences of strings, trees, or graphs). They introduce linear context-free rewriting systems (LCFRS’s, see also Weir (1988)) as a unifying framework for superficially different such formalisms (like (...

In standard generative approaches, word-formation rules contain, among other things, information on the semantics of the suffix and the syntactic category (or word class) of possible bases. Based on the general assumption that word-class specification of the input is a crucial ingredient of derivational morphology, far-reaching claims have been made. For example, the Unitary Base Hypothesis (Ar...

A comparison has been made of productive vocabulary in some normal university English majors’ theses in China and American final-year undergraduates’ papers. The research demonstrates that with family as the measurement unit, Chinese students proportionally use fewer words of the 1 st , 8th to 10th 1000 frequency level words than American students, while in terms of the 2nd to 4th 1000 frequenc...

The paper deals with merging two complementary resources of morphological data previously existing for Czech, namely the inflectional dictionary MorfFlex CZ and the recently developed lexical network DeriNet. The MorfFlex CZ dictionary has been used by a morphological analyzer capable of analyzing/generating several million Czech word forms according to the rules of Czech inflection. The DeriNe...