This paper reports on a comparative analysis of accentuation strategies within Italian and Dutch NPs. Accent-patterns were obtained in a (semi-)spontaneous way via a simple dialogue-game with 8 Dutch speakers and 4 Italian ones. In this way, target descriptions of all speakers were obtained in the following four contexts: all new, single contrast in the adjective, single contrast in the noun, a...

Diese Dissertation wurde selbständig, ohne unerlaubte Hilfe erarbeitet. How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is?

This thesis presents an automated system for extracting neologisms using machine learning approaches. The neologisms are extracted from a large temporally annotated corpus containing newspaper articles and blog posts. We find that our system is different from much of the previous research on neologism extraction and justify these differences by relating it to current research in evolutionary li...

Identifying given and new information within a text has long been addressed as a research issue. However, there has previously been no accurate computational method for assessing the degree to which constituents in a text contain given versus new information. This study develops a method for automatically categorizing noun phrases into one of three categories of givenness/newness, using the tax...

This study has a novelty on the variables of maqashid shariah. Where sharia variable in this uses seven dimensions which previously used five dimensions. The dimension is tested to see its effect decision muzakki issue zakat. test was conducted with sample 423 throughout Indonesia. results found that newness variables, namely protecting environment and maintaining security, became consideration...