We investigate the problem of parsing conversational data of morphologically-rich languages such as Hindi where argument scrambling occurs frequently. We evaluate a state-of-the-art non-linear transitionbased parsing system on a new dataset containing 506 dependency trees for sentences from Bollywood (Hindi) movie scripts and Twitter posts of Hindi monolingual speakers. We show that a dependenc...

Letter to the Editor Better limited systematicity in hand than structural descriptions in the bush: A reply to Hummel Hummel's reference to " countless other ways " in which our model of structure processing is deficient, along with the claim that it cannot account for " any of the hallmarks of the human ability to perceive spatial relations, " exemplifies the tactic favored by the defenders of...

1. Idioms are constructions 1.1 Idioms in the Chomskyan paradigm Croft and Cruse (2004:225) describe the role of idioms in construction grammar as follows: “It is not an exaggeration to say that construction grammar grew out of a concern to find a place for idiomatic expressions in the speaker’s knowledge of a grammar of their language”. The reason for this focus on idioms in early construction...

In this article we analyse different types of representations of music, both from a cognitive and a computational point of view. Whereas mental representations of music are the objects of the musical mind, and are therefore by definition a subject of cognitive psychology and philosophy, it can be argued that mathematical representations of music also have some cognitive correlates enabling the ...

This paper investigates on the possible advantages of applying generative programming in a component based development process: if a component oriented approach is applied, then generative programming can be used to automatically compose and assemble components. In part one of this paper, I present the application of Generative Programming from an engineering point of view, using a simple but c...

Many companies are adopting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in the hope that these systems will help them transform their organizational processes to improve efficiency and flexibility. Unfortunately, many organizations do not realize the hoped-for benefits, and indeed there have been some examples of disastrous failures. There are likely to be a variety of factors that influence the...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse and reconstruct espoused conceptions of coordination, business processes and communication using the Activity Domain Theory as a guiding framework. The point of departure is shared or communal meaning. Meaning is seen as the link between the individual mind and the social reality in which the individual is immersed. The construction of communal meaning an...

Using a sample of 102 managers from a large nationalized bank in India, the study looked at the effect of leader femininity and masculinity on transformational leadership and the relationship between all the three with leader ethical behavior. Results show that leader’s femininity is the stronger predictor of transformational leadership and masculinity explains additional variance in transforma...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the acquisition of negationproperties by Persian monolingual and Kurdish-Persian bilingual learners of Englishacross different levels of language proficiency and within a generative framework.Generative models are generally concerned with issues such as universal grammar(UG), language transfer, and morphological variability in nonprimary languaged...