The article is devoted to the lexical and semantic analysis of Chuvash hydronyms. purpose study classify names water bodies by groups, identify main principles nomination hydro-names. deals with rivers streams, lakes ponds, swamps swampy places, springs wells. material for was collected author during field research, data from toponymic file Scientific Archive CSUH various cartographic sources, ...

In this paper we investigate the movement constraints superiority and discourse linking. These have played an important role in the tradition of generative syntax and might therefore be expected to be universal, but they are usually argued to be absent from German. We looked for evidence of them in German data using the methodology of magnitude estimation of well-formedness, and compared this d...

We present in this paper a method for hybridizing constituency treebanks with constraint-based descriptions and enrich them with an evaluation of sentence grammaticality. Such information is calculated thanks to a two-steps technique consisting in : (1) constraint grammar induction from the source treebank and (2) constraint evaluation for all sentences, on top of which a grammaticality index i...

In an artificial grammar learning task, amnesic patients classified test items as well as normal subjects did. Item similarity did not affect grammaticality judgments when similar and nonsimilar test items were balanced for the frequency with which bigrams and trigrams (chunks) that appeared in the training set also appeared in the test items. Amnesic patients performed like normal subjects. Th...

We present an overview of our recent work on the signalling of sentence type in Dutch both through lexico-syntactic structure and through intonation. Production data were studied in a controlled experiment with play-acted sentence types (statements, yes/no-questions, wh-questions and declarative questions (lexico-syntactically identical to statements)), and in unconstrained spontaneous dialog (...

This paper presents an approach combining lexico-semantic resources and distributed representations of words applied to the evaluation in machine translation (MT). This study is made through the enrichment of a well-known MT evaluation metric: METEOR. This metric enables an approximate match (synonymy or morphological similarity) between an automatic and a reference translation. Our experiments...

Lexico-semantic knowledge of our native language provides an initial foundation for second language learning. In this paper, we investigate whether and to what extent the lexico-semantic models of the native language (L1) are transferred to the second language (L2). Specifically, we focus on the problem of lexical choice and investigate it in the context of three typologically diverse languages...