Abstract By examining and comparing the linguistic patterns in a self-built corpus of Chinese-English translations produced by WeChat Translate , latest online machine translation app from most popular social media platform (WeChat) China, this study explores such questions as whether or not to what extent simplification normalization (hypothesized Translation Universals) exhibit themselves the...

The aim of this contrastive study is to examine the source domain “agriculture” as an image donor for a large number phraseological units in German and Albanian address question which agricultural terms belong inventory both languages metaphorical target domains are linguistically structured by them. This language combination consists two Indo-European whose peoples have not been direct contact...

Over the past three decades, theories of meaning have increasingly become informed by empiricalgeneralizations based on data gathered in fieldwork with theoretically untrained native speakers.This paper discusses the interplay between theory and fieldwork in the study of meaning. Specif-ically, we argue that i) theory can guide fieldwork on meaning and when it does, more compre-...

The present study deals with German-language cross-cultural research in different fields o· psychology which attempts to achieve one Or more goals of cross-cultural psychology First, methodological problems are discussed, followed by a selective presentation of cross cultural research in personality, clinical, ethological, developmental, and social psychology The theoretical and methodological ...

Several typological universals of sound systems of human language are assumed to be a result of self-organization in a population’s communication performance. This has been shown for human vowel system in diverse studies (c.f. de Boer, 2000b; Jäger, 2008). In these studies computational models were designed of agents communicating with single vowel sounds. In our study we present a computationa...

The present paper presents the structure of a cross-linguistic database of production data. The database contains annotated texts collected from a sample of fifteen different languages by means of identical data gathering methods, which are designed to enable studies on typology and universals of information structure. The special property of this database is that it combines the features of a ...

Many languages are spoken on Earth. Despite their diversity, many robust language universals are known to exist. All languages share syntax, i.e., the ability of combining words for forming sentences. The origin of such traits is an issue of open debate. By using recent developments from the statistical physics of complex networks, we show that different syntactic dependency networks (from Czec...

This paper analyzes stress and moraic constituencies in Paumari, an endangered language of the Arawan family of the Brazilian Amazon. It argues that Paumari feet are quantity-insensitive iambs, built from right-to-left within the prosodic word. Both of these latter claims are theoretically important because they violate some proposed universals of foot structure. The paper also discusses more g...

Considerations regarding predication in ordinary language as well as the ontology of relations suggest a refinement of the Ontological Square, a conceptual scheme used in many foundational ontologies and which consists of particular substrates as well as their types on the one hand and particular attributes as well as their types on the other hand. First, the distinction between particulars and...