I reargue the point here that current mixed theories of syntax that involve both derivations and representations are redundant and in principle less restrictive than their pure representational or pure derivational equivalents. Next I show that no pure derivational theory of narrow syntax exists. To be minimally adequate, derivational theories must be mixed, hence the arguments against mixed th...

It is conventional to recognise two dimensions of paradigmatic organisation in a morphological system. The inflected forms of a lexeme L make up the inflectional paradigms of L. The new lexemes that can be defined from the root of L form what is often, by extension, termed the derivational paradigm of L. Implicit in many traditional descriptions is a third subsystem, comprising the ‘principal p...

The paper presents a very preliminary attempts to employ the word2vec tool to evaluate semantic regularity within particular derivational relations in the data of the Derivancze derivational analyzer of Czech.

sarhaddi balochi dialect, a language variety of western (rakhshani) balochi, employs derivation through affixation as one of its word formation processes. the purpose of this article is to present a synchronic description of the way(s) different derivational affixes function in making complex words in sarhaddi balochi as spoken in granchin[1] district located about 35kms to the southeast of kha...

Machine Translation (MT) systems that process unrestricted text should be able to deal with words that are not found in the MT lexicon. Without some kind of recognition, the parse may be incomplete, there is no transfer for the unfound word, and tests for transfers for surrounding words will often fail, resulting in poor translation. Interestingly, not much has been published on unfoundword gue...

The article intends to highlight the particularities of the derivational morphology mechanisms that will help in lexical resources extension. Some computing approaches for derivational morphology are given for several languages, inclusively for Romanian. This paper deals with some preprocessing particularities, that are needed in the process of automatic generation. Then, generative mechanisms ...

We propose an unsupervised training method to guide the learning of Malay derivational morphology from a set of morphological segmentations produced by a naı̈ve morphological analyzer. Using a morphology-based language model, we first estimate the probability of a given segmentation. We train the model with EM to find the segmentation that maximizes the probability of each morpheme. We extract t...