The order of prenominal adjectival modifiers in English is governed by complex and difficult to describe constraints which straddle the boundary between competence and performance. This paper describes and compares a number of statistical and machine learning techniques for ordering sequences of adjectives in the context of a natural language generation system.

The paper presents the use of preposition za (?for?) in vernacular Eras from Eastern Bosnia, region delimited by rivers Drinjaca, Biostica and Krivaja, slopes Konjuh Romanija. enters constructions with accusative, instrumental genitive. content ample corpus data obtained listening to over 500 hours recorded speech indicated area points its closeness equivalence state idioms Herzegovina- Krajina...

This paper introduces a class-based approach to ordering prenominal modifiers. Modifiers are grouped into broad classes based on where they tend to occur prenominally, and a framework is developed to order sets of modifiers based on their classes. This system is developed to generate several orderings for modifiers with more flexible positional constraints, and lends itself to bootstrapping for...

The acquisition of the English past tense inflection is the paradigm example of rule learning in the child language literature and has become something of a test case for theories of language development. This is unfortunate, as the idiosyncratic properties of the English system of marking tense make it a rather unrepresentative example of morphological development. In this paper, I contrast th...

The paper describes a presentation format of grammatical information for language teaching. c-structures and f-structures are represented as graphical annotation to a text. It is advocated that LFG-like concepts are preferable to traditional grammar rules. After an anti-grammar movement in the 1980s we can recognize today a resurgence of interest in the role of grammar in language teaching (Hed...

Noun with genitive marker in Indo-Aryan language can variously be a child of a noun, a verb or a complex predicate, thus making it an important parsing issue. In this paper, we examine genitive data of Hindi and aim to automatically determine the attachment and relational label of the same in a dependency framework. We implement two approaches: a rule based approach and a statistical approach. ...

There is a construction in English, exemplified by how long a bridge, which is so irregular that it has been named the Big Mess Construction, see Berman (1974). This paper first sketches its main characteristics (section 1) and a treatment of the internal structure of the noun phrase which serves as a background for the analysis (section 2). It then presents three ways in which the Big Mess Con...