In this paper, we examine the behaviour of so-called passive and middle aorist forms in Greek reflected Genesis Septuagint. The Septuagint, Biblical more generally, displays a considerable aberration with respect to other varieties Ancient regarding relative frequency vis-à-vis forms. Here, explore feature Septuagint some detail, showing that there is or less consistent, binary system at stage,...

Linguistic convention allows speakers various options. Evidence is accumulating that the various options are preferred in different contexts yet the criteria governing the selection of the appropriate form are often far from obvious. Most researchers who attempt to discover the factors determining a preference rely on the linguistic analysis and statistical modeling of data extracted from large...

Among the many grammatical features which are shared between Hiw and Lo-Toga – the two Oceanic languages spoken in the Torres Islands of Vanuatu – are the semantics of Tense-AspectMood markers, and their effects on the syntax of clause dependency. Even though these two languages possess a wealth of subordinators such as conjunctions or relativizers, two TAM markers show a clear propensity, in f...

Conceptual blending has been employed very successfully to understand the process of concept invention, studied particularly within cognitive psychology and linguistics. However, despite this influential research, within computational creativity little effort has been devoted to fully formalise these ideas and to make them amenable to computational techniques. We here present the basic formalis...

away from the surface realization. In order to achieve such a morphological analysis, a morphological analyzer needs to be implemented which can handle the long distance dependencies and the phonological rules that apply. Such a morphological analyzer was implemented using the Xerox finite-state technology tools xfst and lexc (Beesley & Karttunen 2003). This system has been used because it offe...

Dogon languages lexicalize action verbs with obligatory reference to manner and/or process. This contrasts with English and “Standard Average European,” which (in neutral contexts) profile result and/or function. Many common English verbs like carry and eat correspond to sets of Dogon verbs with senses like ‘carry on back’ and ‘munch’. The pattern cuts across many semantic domains and constitut...

therefore, these categories become more abstract with them. Another important part of the process of grammatical development is the construction of paradigmatic categories such as noun and verb. Unlike syntactic roles, paradigmatic categories are not explicitly marked in language. That is, whereas such things as agent/subject are symbolically indicated by word order or grammatical morphology in...