Transitivity and Aspect in Sahidic Coptic consists of three studies united by the common topic voice alternations Sahidic. Having established that verbal system is based on split causativity (for term see Kulikov L.I., “Split causativity: remarks correlations between transitivity, aspect, tense”), work introduces concept an aspect-transitivity grid, which unmarked infinitival form ascribed voic...

The role of lexical frequency, telicity & phonological factors on past tense production in children with SLI & their typically developing peers. ii ii ABSTRACT Limited research is available about how lexical and phonological verb properties interact with past tense production by children. Frequency of the inflected form and phonotactic probability might serve as input-driven alternatives to pre...

Lexical ambiguity is an important source of inefficiency for wide-coverage HPSG parsing. In this paper, we propose a lexical analysis filter which removes unlikely lexical categories. The filter is implemented as a straightforward HMM n-gram POS-tagger, which computes the ’a posteriori’ probability of each lexical category. A lexical category is removed if a competing lexical category is suffic...

This paper presents a lexical choice component for complex noun phrases. We rst explain why lexical choice for NPs deserves special attention within the standard pipeline architecture for a generator. The task of the lexical chooser for NPs is more complex than for clauses because the syntax of NPs is less understood than for clauses, and therefore, syntactic realization components, while they ...

This article studies the relevance of an historical lexical analysis to the stylistic description of Modern Hebrew texts. The examination of the lexical make-up of two distinct genres – administrative language and folksong – reveals a correlation between the social functions of the corpora and their formal characteristics. The administrative corpus reflects the lexical structure of standard Mod...

Identifying ambiguous requirements is an important aspect of software development, as it prevents design and implementation errors that are costly to correct. Unfortunately, few efforts have been made to automatically solve the problem. In this paper, we study the problem of lexical ambiguity detection and propose methods that can automatically identify potentially ambiguous concepts in softwar...

New methods of acquiring structural information in text documents may support better compression by identifying an appropriate prediction context for each symbol. The method of “lexical attraction” infers syntactic dependency structures from statistical analysis of large corpora. We describe the generation of a lexical attraction model, discuss its application to text compression, and explore i...

From psycholinguistic and lexical semantic aspect, the semantic transparency of 2000 nominal English and Chinese high frequent compounds in the corpus have been analyzed, and related with word frequency. The result showed that in both languages, the number of Transparent-Transparent and Partially-Transparent compounds is larger than that of Opaque-Opaque compounds. Moreover, the relationship be...