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Madugu, Isaac S. "Complex verbs in Nupe and Yoruba." Studies in African Linguistics 16, no. 3 (1985): 295–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v16i3.107499.

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This paper examines the structural behaviour of various types of complex verbs in Nupe and Yoruba in relation to causative constructions. When such verbs occur in simplex non-agentive causative sentences as well as in agentive non-causative sentences, they freely permit sentence embedding, resulting in biclausal causative structures. But in the case of non-agentive causatives, it is only Yoruba which allows the verbs to be irregularly embedded into causative matrix sentences in such a way that the biclausal causative structure constitutes input to Causative Clause Union, which compresses it in

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Ehineni, Taiwo O. "Construction schemas in Yoruba compounding: focus on personal names." Language in Africa 2, no. 2 (2021): 66–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/2686-8946-2021-2-2-66-82.

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Compounding is a common word-formation process in Yoruba which is instantiated by different compound structures and types. However, in Yoruba personal names, compounds may exhibit significant formal and semantic properties that reflect certain constructional schemas in grammar. Hence, using the framework of construction morphology, this paper examines various schemas in Yoruba compound personal names and the internal features of these schemas. Based on data collected from personal interviews and native speaker intuition, I show that Yoruba personal names are constructions involving complex str

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Abimbola, Olabode. "The Status of Sì in Yoruba." Journal of Language and Education 3, no. 1 (2017): 58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/2411-7390-2017-3-1-58-66.

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This paper examines the syntax of sentential conjunction in the Yoruba language with the view of ascertaining the actual syntactic function of sì on which opinions have been polarized in the syntax of Yoruba grammar. This paper argues that the Yoruba language has a sentential/clausal conjunction element but its structural position is not the between the two clauses. The researcher conducted a series of structured interviews and also consulted existing works targeting the sì in compound clauses so as to generate the data for the research. The research adopts the Minimalist Program (MP) as its t

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Olatunji, Ezekiel Kolawole, John B. Oladosu, Odetunji A. Odejobi, and Stephen O. Olabiyisi. "Design and implementation of an African native language-based programming language." International Journal of Advances in Applied Sciences 10, no. 2 (2021): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijaas.v10.i2.pp171-177.

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<p>Most of the existing high level programming languages havehitherto borrowed their lexical items from human languages including European and Asian languages. However, there is paucity of research information on programming languages developed with the lexicons of an African indigenous language. This research explored the design and implementation of an African indigenous language-based programming language using Yoruba as case study. Yoruba is the first language of over 30 million people in the south-west of Nigeria, Africa; and is spoken by over one hundred million people world-wide.

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Soames, Scott, Gerald Gazdar, Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum, and Ivan Sag. "Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar." Philosophical Review 98, no. 4 (1989): 556. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2185122.

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Muslimin, Rizal. "Interweaving Grammar: Reconfiguring Vernacular Structure through Parametric Shape Grammar." International Journal of Architectural Computing 8, no. 2 (2010): 93–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/1478-0771.8.2.93.

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Orie, Ọlanikẹ Ọla. "The Structure and Function of Yoruba Facial Scarification." Anthropological Linguistics 53, no. 1 (2011): 15–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/anl.2011.0000.

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Babarinde, Olusanmi. "Linguistic analysis of the structure of Yoruba numerals." Language Matters 45, no. 1 (2014): 127–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2013.857362.

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Müller, Stefan. "Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Sign-Based Construction Grammar, and Fluid Construction Grammar." Constructions and Frames 9, no. 1 (2017): 139–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.9.1.05mul.

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Abstract Van Trijp (2013, 2014) claims that Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG) and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) are fundamentally different from Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG). He claims that the former approaches are generative ones while the latter is a cognitive-functional one. I argue that it is not legitimate to draw these distinctions on the basis of what is done in FCG. Van Trijp claims that there are differences in the scientific model, the linguistic approach, formalization, the way constructions are seen, and in terms of processing. This paper discusses all these

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Ifaturoti, Adeboye Oluwaseun. "Краткий очерк типологических особенностей языка йоруба". Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, № 7 (2021): 74–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2410-7190_2021_7_1_74_85.

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The article presents materials on the phonetic and grammatical structure of Yoruba – one of the most widely spoken languages of West Africa, which, along with its literary form, exists in many dialectical variants. Using examples selected from modern normative speech usage, the author – a native speaker of the Standard Yoruba – demonstrates the ways of expressing semantic content, various grammatical meanings and categories in the Yoruba language, whose structure has significant differences from known modern analytical (English, French) and synthetic (Russian) languages of Europe. The results

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Crain, Stephen, and Mineharu Nakayama. "Structure Dependence in Grammar Formation." Language 63, no. 3 (1987): 522. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415004.

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Gunji, Takao, Carl Pollard, and Ivan A. Sag. "Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar." Language 72, no. 2 (1996): 417. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/416665.

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HERZIG SHEINFUX, LIVNAT, NURIT MELNIK, and SHULY WINTNER. "Representing argument structure." Journal of Linguistics 53, no. 04 (2016): 701–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226716000189.

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Existing approaches to the representation of argument structure in grammar tend to focus either on semantics or on syntax. Our goal in this paper is to strike the right balance between the two levels by proposing an analysis that maintains the independence of the syntactic and semantic aspects of argument structure, and, at the same time, captures the interplay between the two levels. Our proposal is set in the context of the development of a large-scale grammar of Modern Hebrew within the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Consequently, an additional challenge it faces

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Ojo, GA. "Tonal Patterns of English Syllable Structure Borrowed into Yoruba." AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies 3, no. 2 (2014): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v3i2.8.

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Lawal, Nike S. "Yoruba relativization and the continuous segment principle." Studies in African Linguistics 18, no. 1 (1987): 68–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v18i1.107480.

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This paper examines the strategies for relativisation and the Noun Phrase accessibility hierarchy and constraints in Yoruba [Keenan and Comrie 197T]. The various positions relativisable are examined. It was found that contrary to what Keenan and Comrie thought, Yoruba relativises all positions except the Object of Comparative. Attention is also focussed on the status of the coreferential pronoun found in subject relativisation. From the presence of this pronoun it appears as if Yoruba violates the continuous segment principle. However, our analysis shows that the pronoun is a surface structure

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Broekhuis, Hans. "A typology of clause structure." Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2010 10 (December 31, 2010): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/livy.10.01bro.

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Current generative grammar predicts a larger set of transitive structures than the six types normally mentioned in the typological handbooks (SVO, SOV, VSO, etc). The main cause of this discrepancy is that, whereas generative grammar investigates the hierarchical positions of the verb and its arguments, most typological research is concerned with their relative surface order. In order to bring together these two lines of research, we have to translate the predictions of generative grammar into a more sophisticated typology in linear terms that can be taken as the point of departure for future

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Hukari, Thomas E., and Robert D. Levine. "Phrase Structure Grammar: the next generation." Journal of Linguistics 32, no. 2 (1996): 465–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700015978.

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Marantz, Alec, and John T. Jensen. "Morphology: Word Structure in Generative Grammar." Language 68, no. 2 (1992): 413. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/416954.

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Bouwer, L., H. C. Janeke, and B. Swart. "Generalized phrase structure grammar: a survey." South African Journal of Linguistics 13, sup26 (1995): 185–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10118063.1995.9724011.

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MacKay, A. L., and J. Klinowski. "Towards a grammar of inorganic structure." Computers & Mathematics with Applications 12, no. 3-4 (1986): 803–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0898-1221(86)90426-8.

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Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. "Morphology: Word structure in generative grammar." Lingua 86, no. 4 (1992): 355–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0024-3841(92)90069-u.

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Sigurd, Bengt. "REFERENT GRAMMAR (RG). A GENERALIZED PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR WITH BUILT-IN REFERENTS." Studia Linguistica 41, no. 2 (1987): 115–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9582.1987.tb00777.x.

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Pinheiro, Marcia R. "Universal Grammar." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 4, no. 4 (2016): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol4.iss4.529.

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We are interested in creating a universal grammar structure, so that learning languages becomes a much easier task than it is now. We obviously cannot dream of having all languages on earth adopting this universal grammar, so that this is at most for those languages that are associated with our occidental style of writing. The Brazilian and Portuguese peoples decided to unify their language once and then reached several agreements which formed the new language, basically. With this, Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese Portuguese became almost the same thing. In the same way, we could have all

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Adéwọlé, Lawrence O. "Sequence and Co-Occurrence of Yoruba Auxiliary Verbs." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 34, no. 1 (1989): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000841310002586x.

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Just as in several other languages of the world, the Yoruba auxiliary verbs can be stacked, that is, there can be more than one auxiliary verb in a structure. In this paper, we shall propose an analysis, within the framework of GPSG, which accounts for the distribution of the Yoruba auxiliary verbs and compare our analysis with some previous ones.

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ACHAWANANTAKUN, RUJIRA, YANNI SUN, and SEYEDEH SHOHREH TAKYAR. "ncRNA CONSENSUS SECONDARY STRUCTURE DERIVATION USING GRAMMAR STRINGS." Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 09, no. 02 (2011): 317–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219720011005501.

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Many noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) function through both their sequences and secondary structures. Thus, secondary structure derivation is an important issue in today's RNA research. The state-of-the-art structure annotation tools are based on comparative analysis, which derives consensus structure of homologous ncRNAs. Despite promising results from existing ncRNA aligning and consensus structure derivation tools, there is a need for more efficient and accurate ncRNA secondary structure modeling and alignment methods. In this work, we introduce a consensus structure derivation approach based on gra

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Schmidt, Linda C., Harshawardhan Shetty, and Scott C. Chase. "A Graph Grammar Approach for Structure Synthesis of Mechanisms." Journal of Mechanical Design 122, no. 4 (1999): 371–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.1315299.

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This paper presents a general graph grammar methodology for structure synthesis of mechanisms. Much of current mechanism design is based on a systematic method popularized by Freudenstein, Mruthyunjaya, and Tsai (among others). A graph grammar is a more natural expression for a method that relies on algebraic abstractions of graph theoretic principles. Our proposed grammar rules add vertices and loops to a start graph to obtain desired structural requirements. A grammar adaptation of an existing linear time algorithm for the detection of isomorphism is presented. Also presented is a specialize

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Schnelle, Helmut. "Grammar and brain." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26, no. 6 (2003): 689–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x03450152.

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Jackendoff's account of relating linguistic structure and brain structure is too restricted in concentrating on formal features of computational requirements, neglecting the achievements of various types of neuroscientific modelling. My own approaches to neuronal models of syntactic organization show how these requirements could be met. The book's lack of discussion of a sound philosophy of the relation is briefly mentioned.

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Salmons, Joseph C. "The Structure of the Lexicon." Studies in Language 17, no. 2 (1993): 411–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.17.2.06sal.

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Data from language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and diachronic studies have all shown that the lexicon has a clear internal structure, which includes relationships among lexical items based on phonetic and phonological characteristics, semantic features, morphology, and frequency of use. In the absence, however, of direct evidence from grammar, such lexical structure has even recently been deemed irrelevant to linguistic theory. In this paper, I use evidence from German grammar, specifically gender assignment, to support a model of lexical structure like that proposed particularly within Na

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Jansen, Wim. "Grammar: A Complex Structure. A Linguistic Description of Esperanto in Functional Discourse Grammar." Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems 13, no. 2 (2015): 275–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.7906/indecs.13.2.11.

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Juola, Patrick, and Paul Bennett. "A Course in Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar." Language 73, no. 4 (1997): 906. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417383.

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Culy, Christopher, John Nerbonne, Klaus Netter, and Carl Pollard. "German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar." Language 73, no. 2 (1997): 401. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/416033.

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Paggio, Patrizia. "The information structure of Danish grammar constructions." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 32, no. 1 (2009): 137–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586509002066.

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This paper addresses the issue of how information structure can be accounted for in a formal grammar of Danish. Three information structure features – topic, focus and background – are discussed, and it is shown how they are instantiated in a number of different grammatical constructions from a corpus of spoken Danish. Prosodic, syntactic and information structure constraints characterising the various constructions are represented as typed feature structures following Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), and the constructions themselves are ordered in a type hierarchy. The proposed ap

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Jones, Doug. "Human kinship, from conceptual structure to grammar." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33, no. 5 (2010): 367–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x10000890.

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AbstractResearch in anthropology has shown that kin terminologies have a complex combinatorial structure and vary systematically across cultures. This article argues that universals and variation in kin terminology result from the interaction of (1) an innate conceptual structure of kinship, homologous with conceptual structure in other domains, and (2) principles of optimal, “grammatical” communication active in language in general. Kin terms from two languages, English and Seneca, show how terminologies that look very different on the surface may result from variation in the rankings of a un

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Park, Byung-Soo. "Sentential predicates in Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar." Korean Linguistics 5 (January 1, 1988): 59–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/kl.5.04bsp.

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Covington, Michael A. "Studies in Contemporary Phrase Structure Grammar (review)." Language 77, no. 3 (2001): 610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2001.0144.

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Weininger, Markus J. "Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Eine Einführung." Informationen Deutsch als Fremdsprache 36, no. 2-3 (2009): 263–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/infodaf-2009-2-361.

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Hamann, Cornelia, Zvi Penner, and Katrin Linder. "German Impaired Grammar: The Clause Structure Revisited." Language Acquisition 7, no. 2-4 (1998): 193–245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327817la0702-4_5.

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de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine, and Joakim Nivre. "Dependency Grammar." Annual Review of Linguistics 5, no. 1 (2019): 197–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-011842.

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Dependency grammar is a descriptive and theoretical tradition in linguistics that can be traced back to antiquity. It has long been influential in the European linguistics tradition and has more recently become a mainstream approach to representing syntactic and semantic structure in natural language processing. In this review, we introduce the basic theoretical assumptions of dependency grammar and review some key aspects in which different dependency frameworks agree or disagree. We also discuss advantages and disadvantages of dependency representations and introduce Universal Dependencies,

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Kaltenböck, Gunther, Bernd Heine, and Tania Kuteva. "On thetical grammar." Studies in Language 35, no. 4 (2011): 852–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.35.4.03kal.

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Most frameworks of linguistic analysis tend to highlight phenomena of language use and/or language knowledge such as sentence and word structure, while backgrounding or ignoring other phenomena that are interpreted as being of more marginal interest for the linguist. The main goal of this paper is to argue that some phenomena that have previously been treated as being more peripheral play an important role in the organization of linguistic discourse, and that the latter operates in at least two different domains, namely that of sentence grammar and of thetical grammar. Each of the two domains

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Bagha, Karim Nazari. "Generative Grammar (GG)." Management and Labour Studies 34, no. 2 (2009): 291–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0258042x0903400208.

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This article consists of eight parts: introduction, the organization of a Generative Grammar, operation of the system of base rules, deep structure, surface structure and transformational rules, standard theory, extended standard theory, revised extended standard theory, and minimalism. According to Chomsky, the grammar of a language establishes a relationship between sound and meaning, i.e., between phonetic representation and semantic representation. To discover this grammar is the primary goal of linguistics. One of Chomsky's attempts to accomplish this goal is the standard theory grammar,

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Martin, J. R., and Priscilla Cruz. "Interpersonal grammar of Tagalog." Interpersonal Meaning 25, no. 1 (2018): 54–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.17016.mar.

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Abstract In this paper the interpersonal grammar of Tagalog is explored from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Following a brief metafunctional profile of Tagalog grammar, a framework for interpreting the discourse function of Tagalog clauses is introduced – exchange structure. Subsequently the systems of mood, polarity, modality, tagging, vocation, comment and engagement are considered, alongside their realisation in tone, clause structure and lexical selection. The role played by these interpersonal systems and structure is then illustrated through a brief sample of Tagalog

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van Trijp, Remi. "Cognitive vs. generative construction grammar: The case of coercion and argument structure." Cognitive Linguistics 26, no. 4 (2015): 613–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2014-0074.

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AbstractOne of the most salient hallmarks of construction grammar is its approach to argument structure and coercion: rather than positing many different verb senses in the lexicon, the same lexical construction may freely interact with multiple argument structure constructions. This view has however been criticized from within the construction grammar movement for leading to overgeneration. This paper argues that this criticism falls flat for two reasons: (1) lexicalism, which is the alternative solution proposed by the critics, has already been proven to overgenerate itself, and (2) the argu

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Solihu, Abdul Kabir Hussain. "The Earliest Yoruba Translation of the Qur'an: Missionary Engagement with Islam in Yorubaland." Journal of Qur'anic Studies 17, no. 3 (2015): 10–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2015.0210.

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This study analyses the first translation of the meaning of the Qur'an into Yoruba, a language spoken mainly in south-western Nigeria in West Africa. Yorubaland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a theatre of serious engagement between Muslims and Christian missionaries, during which a proliferation of translations of religious texts played a major role. Long before the translation of the Qur'an was accepted by most Muslims in Africa, Christian missionaries had taken the initiative in rendering the Qur'an into local African languages. The first known translation of the Qur'an into a

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Hudson, Richard. "Conceptual structure is constrained functionally, not formally." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33, no. 5 (2010): 387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1000138x.

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AbstractKinship systems are best explained functionally, in terms of the conflicting needs of the society concerned, rather than in terms of universal constraints, whether Optimality Theory or other; but OT is particularly unsuitable as it rules out taxonomies. A conceptual analysis of kinship terminology shows, not that “grammar” extends to kinship, but that general cognition has the formal power to handle grammar.

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Meir, Irit, Carol Padden, Mark Aronoff, and Wendy Sandler. "Competing iconicities in the structure of languages." Cognitive Linguistics 24, no. 2 (2013): 309–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2013-0010.

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AbstractThe paper examines the role that iconicity plays in the structuring of grammars. Two main points are argued for: (a) Grammar does not necessarily suppress iconicity; rather, iconicity and grammar can enjoy a congenial relation in that iconicity can play an active role in the structuring of grammars. (b) Iconicity is not monolithic. There are different types of iconicity and languages take advantage of the possibilities afforded by them. We examine the interaction between iconicity and grammar by focusing on the ways in which sign languages employ the physical body of the signer as a ri

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ZHANG, YAO-ZHONG, TAKUYA MATSUZAKI, and JUN'ICHI TSUJII. "Structure-guided supertagger learning." Natural Language Engineering 18, no. 2 (2012): 205–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1351324912000034.

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AbstractAs described in this paper, we specifically examine the structural learning problem of a supertagging task. Supertagging is a task to assign the most probable lexical entry to each word in a sentence. A supertagger is extremely important for a lexicalized grammar parser because an accurate supertagger can greatly reduce lexical ambiguity in downstream parser. Supertagging is more challenging than conventional sequence labeling tasks (e.g., part-of-speech tagging). First, the supertags are numerous. Supertags are the lexical entries defined in a lexicalized grammar, which consists of ri

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Steedman, Mark. "Information Structure and the Syntax-Phonology Interface." Linguistic Inquiry 31, no. 4 (2000): 649–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002438900554505.

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The article proposes a theory of grammar relating syntax, discourse semantics, and intonational prosody. The full range of English intonational tunes distinguished by Beckman and Pierrehumbert (1986) and their semantic interpretation in terms of focus and information structure are discussed, including “discontinuous” themes and rhemes. The theory extends an earlier account based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar, which directly pairs phonological and logical forms without intermediary representational levels.

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Tilana, Palentja Etta, Wisma Yunita, and Zahrida . "Students’ English Structure and Written Competence." Journal of English Education and Teaching 3, no. 2 (2019): 180–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.33369/jeet.3.2.180-194.

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This research aims to investigate the students’ English competence, the highest percentage of students’ mistake and their difficulties in responding to the TOEFL structure and written expression sections. All of the 6th semester students of the English Education Study Program of Universitas Bengkulu who had passed all structure courses were involved in this research. The data were collected through a TOEFL test and an interview. The results show that majority of the students’ English competence was poor. It also reveals that the most difficult topic in grammar section was redundancy. There wer

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Vincent, Bello Deva, and Osarumwense V. Iguisi. "YORUBA CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP STYLE IN NIGERIAN ORGANISATION." Oradea Journal of Business and Economics 3, no. 2 (2018): 32–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.47535/1991ojbe049.

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Culture and leadership research in the last decade witnessed a general upsurge. Empirical studies that determined the scores of the subgroup cultures and examined leadership styles and preferences in Nigeria, have not been exhaustively carried out. This study therefore examined subgroup cultures and leadership styles in Nigerian organizations. Due to the structure of most Nigerian public organizations which are characterized by multi-ethnic groups with heterogeneous cultural beliefs, this study examined the differences in the Hofstede’s culture dimensions’ scores, leadership styles and prefere

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Harris, R. Allen. "Linguistics, Technical Writing, and Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 18, no. 3 (1988): 227–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/wtlt-qky6-lw4v-w2bd.

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Linguistics has been largely misunderstood in writing pedagogy. After Chomsky's revolution, it was widely touted as a panacea; now it is widely flogged as a pariah. Both attitudes are extreme. It has a number of applications in the writing classroom, and it is particularly ripe for technical writing students, who have more sophistication with formalism than their humanities counterparts. Moreover, although few scholars outside of linguistics are aware of it, Transformational Grammar is virtually obsolete; most grammatical models are organized around principled aversions to the transformation,

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