The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major such as Amharic Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo Nuer are dealt with. Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive sociolinguistic puzzle to researchers, have received ample coverage. And for the first time in history linguistics, two chapters dedicated studies Sig...

The role of the basal ganglia, and more specifically of the striatum, in language is still debated. Recent studies have proposed that linguistic abilities involve two distinct types of processes: the retrieving of stored information, implicating temporal lobe areas, and the application of combinatorial rules, implicating fronto-striatal circuits. Studies of patients with focal lesions and neuro...

Formosan languages are extremely diverse at all linguistic levels, from phonology to morphology to syntax. In fact, the Formosan languages are the most diverse within the entire Austronesian language family. This great linguistic diversity indicates a great time depth for an early settlement on the island, so as to make Taiwan the prime candidate for Austronesian homeland and the center of Aust...

Objectives: Language development is often very slower in hearing impaired children compared with their normal peers. Hearing impairment during childhood affects all aspects of speech production and language acquisition. It seems that hearing impaired people suffer from language and speech impairments such as production of complex linguistic structures. The purpose of this study is to determine ...

stylistic is a branch of modern linguistic which surveys and analyzes the literary styles and technical methods. formalism school is one of important modern approaches in stylistics. russian formalisms believe that only the style (frame) can determine the meaning and the concept of the context. mahmoud darvish – palestinian poet – is one of the poets who worked in modernism style. he could pres...

We introduce an annotation type system for a data-driven NLP core system. The specifications cover formal document structure and document meta information, as well as the linguistic levels of morphology, syntax and semantics. The type system is embedded in the framework of the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA).

We present an account of analytic verb forms in a treebank of Czech texts. According to the Czech linguistic tradition, description of periphrastic constructions is a task for morphology. On the other hand, their components cannot be analyzed separately from syntax. We show how the paradigmatic and syntagmatic views can be represented within a single framework.

Dialectal Arabic (DA) refers to the day-to-day vernaculars spoken in the Arab world. DA lives side-by-side with the official language, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). DA differs from MSA on all levels of linguistic representation, from phonology and morphology to lexicon and syntax. Unlike MSA, DA has no standard orthography since there are no Arabic dialect academies, nor is there a large edited...

adopting a humanistic, communicative-based approach to semiotics, this paper aims at investigating the status of linguistic signs and their interaction with other communicative signs. the status of linguistic sign is first studied in semiotic theories spanning ancient, middle ages and modern era. based on the commonalities envisaged in four contemporary semiotic theories done in the spirit of t...