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BLEVINS, JAMES P. "Word-based morphology." Journal of Linguistics 42, no. 3 (October 13, 2006): 531–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226706004191.
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This paper examines two contrasting perspectives on morphological analysis, and considers inflectional patterns that bear on the choice between these alternatives. On what is termed an ABSTRACTIVE perspective, surface word forms are regarded as basic morphotactic units of a grammatical system, with roots, stems and exponents treated as abstractions over a lexicon of word forms. This traditional standpoint is contrasted with the more CONSTRUCTIVE perspective of post-Bloomfieldian models, in which surface word forms are ‘built’ from sub-word units. Part of the interest of this contrast is that it cuts across conventional divisions of morphological models. Thus, realization-based models are morphosyntactically ‘word-based’ in the sense that they regard words as the minimal meaningful units of a grammatical system. Yet morphotactically, these models tend to adopt a constructive ‘root-based’ or ‘stem-based’ perspective. An examination of some form-class patterns in Saami, Estonian and Georgian highlights advantages of an abstractive model, and suggests that these advantages derive from the fact that sets of words often predict other word forms and determine a morphotactic analysis of their parts, whereas sets of sub-word units are of limited predictive value and typically do not provide enough information to recover word forms.
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Ussishkin, Adam. "Semitic Morphology: Root-based or Word-based?" Morphology 16, no. 1 (September 7, 2006): 37–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11525-006-0002-6.
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Shapiro, Michael C. "Hindi morphology: A word-based description." Lingua 108, no. 1 (May 1999): 87–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0024-3841(98)00049-7.
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LEE, LESLIE, and FARRELL ACKERMAN. "Word-based morphology–syntax interdependencies: Thai passives." Journal of Linguistics 53, no. 2 (December 28, 2015): 359–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226715000456.
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In this article, we argue that insights concerning the word-based nature of morphology, especially the hypothesis that periphrastic expressions are cross-linguistically common exponents of lexical relations, permit a novel lexical constructional analysis of periphrastic predicates that preserves the restriction of morphosyntactic mapping operations, such as passive, to the lexicon. We do this in the context of the periphrastic Thaithuukpassive, justifying in detail the monoclausal status of the construction, its flat phrase structure, the semantics of affectedness associated with it, and its paradigmatic opposition with other passive constructions in the language. Building on the proposal of Bonami & Webelhuth (2013) and Bonami (2015) that a periphrase relies on a form of the main verb that selects collocationally for an auxiliary element, we develop an analysis of Thai periphrastic passives in which the surface syntax of these predicates is mediated by appropriate lexical representations. Crucially, the rearrangement of arguments in the passive is done lexically, via lexical rule, rather than in the syntax. The resulting analysis is consistent with the classical tradition of Word and Paradigm morphology, which posits periphrastic expression as one of several encoding strategies for the realization of morphosyntactic information within words.
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Posthumus, L. C. "Word-based versus root-based morphology in the African languages." South African Journal of African Languages 14, no. 1 (January 1994): 28–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.1994.10587027.
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Rosa, Maria Carlota, Alan Ford, Rajendra Singh, and Gita Martohardjono. "Pace Panini: Towards a Word-Based Theory of Morphology." Language 75, no. 4 (December 1999): 846. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417755.
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Dasgupta, Probal. "Pace Panini: Towards a word-based theory of morphology." Journal of Pragmatics 32, no. 4 (March 2000): 513–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-2166(99)00021-1.
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Parhat, Sardar, Mijit Ablimit, and Askar Hamdulla. "Uyghur short-text classification based on reliable sub-word morphology." International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems 11, no. 3 (2019): 250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijris.2019.10023443.
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Parhat, Sardar, Mijit Ablimit, and Askar Hamdulla. "Uyghur short-text classification based on reliable sub-word morphology." International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems 11, no. 3 (2019): 250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijris.2019.102606.
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Jiang, Yajie. "The Role of Morphology in English Vocabulary Teaching." Learning & Education 9, no. 2 (November 10, 2020): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.18282/l-e.v9i2.1422.
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Vocabulary is the most important factor in language composition. Guiding English learners to acquire English vocabulary is an important task. Based on the morphological theory, this research starts from the internal structure of the word and tries to explore the rules of word formation in English vocabulary in order to provide some useful enlightenment for English vocabulary acquisition.
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Yan, Jianwei. "Morphology and word order in Slavic languages: Insights from annotated corpora." Voprosy Jazykoznanija, no. 4 (2021): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/0373-658x.2021.4.131-159.
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Slavic languages are generally assumed to possess rich morphological features with free syntactic word order. Exploring this complexity trade-off can help us better understand the relationship between morphology and syntax within natural languages. However, few quantitative investigations have been carried out into this relationship within Slavic languages. Based on 34 annotated corpora from Universal Dependencies, this paper paid special attention to the correlations between morphology and syntax within Slavic languages by applying two metrics of morphological richness and two of word order freedom, respectively. Our findings are as follows. First, the quantitative metrics adopted can well capture the distributions of morphological richness and word order freedom of languages. Second, the metrics can corroborate the correlation between morphological richness and word order freedom. Within Slavic languages, this correlation is moderate and statistically significant. Precisely, the richer the morphology, the less strict the word order. Third, Slavic languages can be clustered into three subgroups based on classification models. Most importantly, ancient Slavic languages are characterized by richer morphology and more flexible word order than modern ones. Fourth, as two possible disturbing factors, corpus size does not greatly affect the results of the metrics, whereas corpus genre does play an important part in the measurements of word order freedom. Specifically, the word order of formal written genres tends to be more rigid than that of informal written and spoken ones. Overall, based on annotated corpora, the results verify the negative correlation between morphological richness and word order rigidity within Slavic languages, which might shed light on the dynamic relations between morphology and syntax of natural languages and provide quantitative instantiations of how languages encode lexical and syntactic information for the purpose of efficient communication.
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Negara, I. Made Wahyu Guna, and Ngurah Agus Sanjaya ER. "Basic Word Extraction Algorithm Based on Morphological Rules for Balinese Texts." JELIKU (Jurnal Elektronik Ilmu Komputer Udayana) 8, no. 4 (February 4, 2020): 401. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/jlk.2020.v08.i04.p06.
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Stemming is the process of extracting the root word of an affixed word. The process is intended to reduce the variations in the word. In this research, we are interested in applying stemming on Balinese language. Previous works on stemming of the Balinese language applied rule-based method but only prefix and suffix were considered. Moreover, the rules were constructed without providing much attention to the morphology of the Balinese language. Rule-based method can be verified and validated with ease on simple problem but fail to do so on problems with high complexity such as Balinese language. To overcome the weaknesses of rule-based stemming on Balinese language, we propose a method that reduce all variations of affix on Balinese language by combining the rule- based approach and the Balinese language morphology. Based on experiments carried out, our proposed method obtained an average stemming accuracy of 99% which is better than 96.67% achieved by the previous method.
Keywords: Stemming, Balinese language, Rule-based
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Dasgupta, Probal. "Whole Word Morphology Reloaded: The Case for a Semiotic Turn." Język. Komunikacja. Informacja, no. 13 (May 12, 2019): 188–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/jki.2018.13.13.
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GP-WWM is a research programme that uses WWM (Whole Word Morphology) in morphology, Generative Phonotactics in phonology, and a domain delineation that equates the phonology module with automatic processes. In this paper, we advocate letting semiotically based mechanisms reshape the way WWM deploys its Word Formation Strategies. We propose LSSG (Language-Specific Semiotic Guidelines) packages, pitting our main proposal, the purely semiotics-driven Cohort Coherence Design for such a package, against a sketchily delineated Diglossic Equations Design.
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GÜNGÖR, ONUR, TUNGA GÜNGÖR, and SUZAN ÜSKÜDARLI. "The effect of morphology in named entity recognition with sequence tagging." Natural Language Engineering 25, no. 1 (July 27, 2018): 147–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1351324918000281.
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AbstractThis work proposes a sequential tagger for named entity recognition in morphologically rich languages. Several schemes for representing the morphological analysis of a word in the context of named entity recognition are examined. Word representations are formed by concatenating word and character embeddings with the morphological embeddings based on these schemes. The impact of these representations is measured by training and evaluating a sequential tagger composed of a conditional random field layer on top of a bidirectional long short-term memory layer. Experiments with Turkish, Czech, Hungarian, Finnish and Spanish produce the state-of-the-art results for all these languages, indicating that the representation of morphological information improves performance.
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Nimaiti, Maimitili, and Yamamoto Izumi. "A Rule Based Approach for Japanese-Uyghur Machine Translation System." International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence 6, no. 1 (January 2014): 56–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijssci.2014010104.
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Japanese Uyghur machine translation system has been designed and developed using recent rule based approach. Even though Japanese and Uyghur language has many similarities, but there are also some linguistic differences cause serious problems to the word for word translation. In fact, as straightforward word-for-word Japanese-Uighur translation sometimes yields unnatural Uighur sentences. To raise the translation accuracy, the authors propose a word-for-word translation system using subject verb agreement in Uighur. After a brief introduction to the comparative study of Japanese-Uyghur grammars, morphology and syntax, the authors explain their developing of a word to word rule base system. The coverage of this rule base system, the rules for translation, comparison of experimental result between statistical machine translation system and rule base machine translation system are explained. Some practical suffix translation methods solving problems in Uyghur language are also proposed.
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Ahlsén, Elisabeth. "Cognitive Morphology in Swedish: Studies with Normals and Aphasics." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 17, no. 1 (June 1994): 61–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586500000056.
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A multiple methods approach was applied to the study of morphology on the processing of lexical items in Swedish. Data from slips-of-the-tongue, agrammatic speech production, agrammatic oral reading, and lexical decision experiments were used. The results indicate that whole word processing as well as morphological processing takes place in the different types of tasks. The type of processing seems to vary along a continuum, with whole word processing as the most commonly applied type in automatized and relatively simple processing (such as lexical decision for common Swedish words), whereas signs of morpheme-based processing appear less often, and perhaps in less automatized tasks (such as agrammatic speech production).
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Camilleri, Maris. "Island morphology : morphology's interactions in the study of stem patterns." Linguistica 51, no. 1 (December 31, 2011): 65–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.51.1.65-85.
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The paper discusses the notion of morphological complexity, with a focus on stem patterns. Stem patterns, creating stem-based inflectional classes, are morphological constructs which come about as a result of observing the patterns rendered by the stem-form alternations (or stem splits (Baerman/Corbett forthcoming)), which one extracts after the formation of word-forms within paradigms. Stem-based inflectional class formation constitutes one aspect in the analysis of non-canonical paradigms, which also include affix-based inflectional classes, syncretism, defectiveness, and overabundance Corbett 2005, 2007, 2009; Baerman, Brown and Corbett 2005; Thornton 2010). While these non-canonical instances are in themselves interesting to observe, it is even more intriguing to be able to see what interactions can arise, which at times do not seem to be the result of something exterior to morphology proper. Through data taken from Maltese verbal paradigms the phenomenon of stem-based inflectional classes will be explored, which will exhibit how internal to the paradigm there exists a complex system in itself, which is based on the distinct organisation of different conflated morphosyntactic features which come about via syncretism. These patterns should illustrate a paradigm-internal morphological phenomenon that is irrelevant to the syntax, where while morphology borders with it, there need not be any interaction at this interface. At the same time, it will also be shown how at times, the border with phonology is blurred, where while the phonology may often try to build bridges that interface with the morphological island, the island's internal forces that drive its autonomy may deem to be more superior than the phonology's strive to impose its interacting requirements, which render some interesting morphophonological mismatches as a result.
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Ihsan, Fadlan, and Raflis Raflis. "Analysis of The English Open Compound Words." Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Scholastic 3, no. 1 (April 29, 2019): 42–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.36057/jips.v3i1.350.
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Compound words are one of the elements found in the field of morphology. Where the morphology is the study of morphemes, and morphemes are elements of language that have meaning and contribute to support meaning. The morphology field will involve two elements, namely the free element and the bound element. The problem in this study is to analyze the compound word found in the Jakarta post. The word compound which is discussed is the compound word that is open (separate word writing).This research is a type of research belonging to the field of linguistics. This study also uses Qualitative Descriptive research methods. This research method refers to the form of the word. In addition, this research also uses library research or library research. Putaka's research only discusses the data that has been provided by processing and donating data obtained from data sources by using the basic theory that supports the research. In this study the writer took data sources from one edition of the Jakarta Post.
All data needed comes from the data source.The initial step used by the writer is to extract raw data taken from the source. After all the raw data is collected, the author will classify the data in several groups. Since the writer only discusses three topic issues, the information is in accordance with the problem. The first problem is the form of the compound word separated which is found in the Jakarta Post Newspaper. Second is what is the meaning of the compound words before and after combined. And the last is the rule that is owned by the compound. Based on this research, the writer find the uniqueness that results from a separate word combination. Among them is if one word is combined with another word it will have a different meaning. Based on this research the author understands in depth about the separate word combination.
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Hartmann, Stefan. "Derivational morphology in flux: a case study of word-formation change in German." Cognitive Linguistics 29, no. 1 (February 23, 2018): 77–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2016-0146.
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AbstractThe diachronic change of word-formation patterns is currently gaining increasing interest in cognitive-linguistic and constructionist approaches. This paper contributes to this line of research with a corpus-based investigation of nominalization with the suffix-ungin German. In doing so, it puts forward both theoretical and methodological considerations on morphology and morphological change from a usage-based perspective. Regarding methodology, the long-standing topic of how to measure (changes in) the productivity of a morphological pattern is discussed, and it is shown how statistical association measures can be applied to quantify the relationship between word-formation patterns and their bases. These findings are linked up with theoretical considerations on the interplay between constructional schemas and their respective instances.
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VOSKOBOINYK, V. "THE STUDY OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF WORDS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF COGNITIVE MORPHOLOGY." Philological Studies, no. 33 (April 19, 2021): 59–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.33989/2524-2490.2020.33.228238.
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The article considers the basics of the cognitive approach to the analysis of language units. The purposeof the article is to establish the basic principles of cognitive morphology, which are based on the principles ofcognitive grammar and which can be used for the analysis of the morphological structure of any word. Theyare the following: morphological units should be investigated in the light of human experience, cognitiveprocesses of man and his/her vision; morphological units have prototype structures; the morphological structureof a word from a certain language depends on the peculiarities of this language; grammatical rules dependpartially on semantic properties of lexical units; semantic structures should be characterized with the referenceto the ways of interiorisation of reality; conventional links among morphological structures are identifiedthrough metaphoric and metonymic processes; cognitive morphology is of imaginary character. It is proposedto use the technique of frame patterning to analyze the morphological structure of the word. The choice of themorphological structure of a word depends on the type of a frame pattern. This study will be useful for thosewho are in line with a new approach to the analysis of language units - cognitive morphology.
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El-Kahlout, Ilknur Durgar, and Kemal Oflazer. "Exploiting Morphology and Local Word Reordering in English-to-Turkish Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation." IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 18, no. 6 (August 2010): 1313–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tasl.2009.2033321.
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Sulaikho, Siti, and Lailatul Mathoriyah. "RESPON MAHASISWA TERHADAP BUKU AJAR MORFOLOGI BAHASA ARAB BERBASIS ANALISIS KONTRASTIF." DINAMIKA : Jurnal Kajian Pendidikan dan Keislaman 4, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.32764/dinamika.v4i2.784.
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Learning Arabic morphology that is not a mother tongue is not an easy matter. Based on the questionnaire given to students, the problem they faced in studying Arabic morphology was that it was difficult to distinguish the terms contained in Arabic morphology by 22.9%, the examples used were always the same in each discussion so as to confuse 14.3%, difficult to find examples other than those already explained by 17.1%, one word can be changed into many other forms by 8.6%, not knowing the meaning of each word change by 14.3%, difficult to translate into Indonesian so it is not easily understood 11.4%, and it is difficult to get an easily understood learning source of 11.4%. This study aims to determine the response of Arabic Language Education study program students at the University of KH. A. Wahab Hasbullah towards Arabic Morphology textbook based on contrastive analysis using quantitative approaches. Student response data collection using a questionnaire instrument. 35 students were conditioned in one room and gave an assessment of the textbooks that had been shown to them. The final results of the 15 assessment points showed that the Arabic Morphology Textbook Based on Contrastive Analysis scored 90.8 with a decent category and a very good predicate.
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KIRK, CECILIA, and KATHERINE DEMUTH. "Asymmetries in the acquisition of word-initial and word-final consonant clusters." Journal of Child Language 32, no. 4 (November 2005): 709–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000905007130.
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Previous work on the acquisition of consonant clusters points to a tendency for word-final clusters to be acquired before word-initial clusters (Templin, 1957; Lleó & Prinz, 1996; Levelt, Schiller & Levelt, 2000). This paper evaluates possible structural, morphological, frequency-based, and articulatory explanations for this asymmetry using a picture identification task with 12 English-speaking two-year-olds. The results show that word-final stop+/s/ clusters and nasal+/z/ clusters were produced much more accurately than word-initial /s/+stop clusters and /s/+nasal clusters. Neither structural nor frequency factors are able to account for these findings. Further analysis of longitudinal spontaneous production data from 2 children aged 1;1–2;6 provides little support for the role of morphology in explaining these results. We argue that an articulatory account best explains the asymmetries in the production of word-initial and word-final clusters.
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ALBIRINI, ABDULKAFI. "Factors affecting the acquisition of plural morphology in Jordanian Arabic." Journal of Child Language 42, no. 4 (August 27, 2014): 734–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000914000270.
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AbstractThis study investigates the development of plural morphology in Jordanian Arab children, and explores the role of the predictability, transparency, productivity, and frequency of different plural forms in determining the trajectory that children follow in acquiring this complex inflectional system. The study also re-examines the development of the notion of default over several years. Sixty Jordanian children, equally divided among six age groups (three to eight years), completed an oral real-word pluralization task and a nonsense-word pluralization task. The findings indicate that feminine sound plurals are acquired before and extended to the other plural forms. Productivity and frequency seem to shape the acquisition patterns among younger children, but predictability becomes more critical at a later age. Younger children use the most productive plural as the default form, but older children tend to use two default forms based on frequency distributions in the adult language. The theoretical implications of the findings are discussed.
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Harahap, Atika Nur Alami, Nurlela Nurlela, and Umar Mono. "Morphosyntactical Errors in Students' Recount Text." Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences 4, no. 2 (May 28, 2021): 2840–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birci.v4i2.1993.
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The aims of the study are to identify the morphosyntactical errors which occur in students’ recount text, to describe the most and least of morphosyntactical errors in students’ recount text and to explain the reason of morphosyntactical errors occurrence in students’ recount text by XI AK at SMK Kartika 1-3 Medan. The primary data are all word, phrases and sentences in students’ recount text in the 2020 period. The method used was the qualitative method. The result of the research identified types of morphosyntactical errors; noun morphology, verb morphology, adverb morphology, adjective morphology, noun phrase, verb phrase, word order and transformation. Based the theory used to identify the error is adapted by dulay surface taxonomy, which are; addition, ommission, misorder, and misformation. Misformation of verb morphology is the most frequent error made by the student around 45% of the total error came from this error and parameter. The second most frequently error are ommission of noun phrase with the total error sum up to 21%, misordering of noun morphology 13%, addition of verb 11%, addition of word order 8%, the last adverb and adjective morphology 1%. On the other hand, transformation parameters in all errors didn’t occur due to the monotonous of sentences used by student. Almost all the sentences are in the form of declarative sentence with a positive statement form. This research concludes that the student less of information about the use verb 2 in recount text, so they just write what they know and the student confused in used verb especially changed verb 1 into verb 2 in recount text. The reason behind this error is due to ‘Misconception’ of the student.
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Beldjehem, Mokhtar. "A Granular Framework for Recognition of Arabic Handwriting." Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics 13, no. 5 (September 20, 2009): 512–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jaciii.2009.p0512.
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We propose a novel cognitively motivated unifying framework for Arabic handwriting recognition that takes into account the nature of the human reading process of Arabic handwriting. This Modular Granular Architecture tackles the problem by observing Arabic handwriting from both perceptual and linguistic points of view and hence analyzes the underlying input signal from different granularity levels. It is based on three levels of abstraction: a low granularity level that uses perceptual features called global visual indices, a medium granularity level that is the conventional recognition stage and a high granularity level that consists on morphological analysis dedicated to segmentation/recognition. The original idea is the effective use of Arabic word's morphology in the recognition not only in post-processing. This architecture carries well around the Arabic word's morphology, as typically in Arabic, the Arabic word's morphology is by excellence the logical structure (even semantic) of a given Arabic word, whereas the visual data constitute the physical geometric (topological) structure of a given word. We need to integrate both of them for an effective cooperative recognition of Arabic Handwriting. This framework subsumes the lexicon-driven approaches; in that it can recognize a word that does not exist within the lexicon.
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Benavides, Carlos. "Lexicalization and Spanish derivational morphology." Research in Corpus Linguistics 2 (2014): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.32714/ricl.02.01.
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In this study lexicalization refers to derivation where an idiosyncratic component of meaning has been acquired. Being non-compositional, lexicalized items are usually considered irregular. In accordance with an emerging view that irregularity should take a place as one of the central issues in linguistic theory, this article deals with lexicalized derivatives in Spanish within the framework provided by the dual-route model. On the basis of intuitive speculation and an exploratory search of a Spanish corpus, the hypothesis was formulated that a significant majority of derivatives in Spanish are compositional; therefore, lexicalization is a secondary process in Spanish word formation. A corpus study comparing results from two large Spanish corpora was conducted to test the hypothesis. The results, based on an analysis of over 10,000 derivatives confirm the hypothesis, supporting the author’s intuitions and providing additional support for the dual-route model. In addition, the corpus findings suggest that metaphor in Spanish derivation is not as common as may previously have been thought.
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Okubo, Tatsuhiro. "Expletives in words." Morphology and its interfaces 37, no. 2 (December 31, 2014): 225–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.37.2.03oku.
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The presence of semantically empty morphs (linking elements) in compounds poses a challenge for morpheme-based morphology. The purpose of this paper is to solve the problem using Distributed Morphology, which is a highly articulated version of morpheme-based morphology. Specifically, exploiting the empirical similarities between linking elements and expletives, I argue that linking elements are expletives in word domains. Moreover, I demonstrate that the Single Engine Hypothesis of Distributed Morphology theoretically supports the view of linking elements as expletives. In my analysis, linking elements function as markers of wordhood, just as phrasal expletives are markers of phrasehood. I confirm this view by showing that linking elements/expletives occur in all types of compounds.
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Stumpf, Sören. "Passe-partout-Komposita im gesprochenen Deutsch." Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 49, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 33–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2021-2020.
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Abstract This paper proposes an analysis of German passe-partout compounds like Straßending (street thing) and Bananendinger (banana things) as morphological constructions. The study shows that these constructions are characteristic of spoken language and must therefore be considered with respect to the particular properties of that genre. Based on the findings about the pragmatically driven word formation an argument is made for a Construction Morphology that is based on usage and speaker interaction. This proposal can be seen as an extension of the current theory of Construction Morphology (Booij 2010). The notion of pragmatically driven word formation is illustrated by a case study of the [X-Ding]N construction in spoken German. It will be shown that partially filled constructions with Ding as a determinatum have specific semantic and functional-pragmatic properties and are part of a complex family of passe-partout constructions.
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SENGUPTA, P., and B. B. CHAUDHURI. "A MORPHO-SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS BASED LEXICAL SUBSYSTEM." International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 07, no. 03 (June 1993): 595–619. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218001493000303.
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A lexical subsystem that contains a morphological level parser is necessary for processing natural languages in general and inflectional languages in particular. Such a subsystem should be able to generate the surface form (i.e. as it appears in a natural sentence) of a word, given the sequence of morphemes constituting the word. Conversely, and more importantly, the subsystem should be able to parse a word into its constituent morphemes. A formalism which enables the lexicon writer to specify the lexicon of an inflectional language is discussed. The specifications are used to build up a lexical description in the form of a lexical database on one hand and a formulation of derivational morphology, called Augmented Finite State Automata (AFSA), on the other. A compact lexical representation has been achieved, where generation of the surface forms of a word, as well as parsing of a word is performed in a computationally attractive manner. The output produced as a result of parsing is suitable for input to the next stage of analysis in a Natural Language Processing (NLP) environment, which, in our case is based on a generalization of the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). The application of the formalism on inflectional Indian languages is considered, with Bengali, a modern Indian language, as a case study.
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Galieva, Alfiya, and Zhanna Vavilova. "Initial and Final Syllables in Tatar- from Phonotactics to Morphology." Glottometrics, no. 50 (May 1, 2021): 57–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.53482/2021_50_388.
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The paper proposes a methodology for analyzing the syllabic structure of Tatar words using fiction text data. Syllable construction rules are unique for each language as they are determined by the laws that govern its specific internal structure. However, the issue of the syllable finds a rather superficial description in Tatar grammars. Thus, possible correlations of the syllable structure with morphological features of the language will be examined in this paper. We analyze the distribution of syllable types in Tatar texts and represent their ranked frequencies and theoretical values fitted by means of the Zipf Mandelbrot distribution. The main part of the study is devoted to inquiry into the structure of initial and final syllables. We proceed from the hypothesis that distributions of syllable structures in word-initial and word-final positions should be marked by statistically important differences due to discriminative structural features of stems and affixal chains. The study is based on a selection of obstruent and sonorant consonants. To evaluate statistical significance of these differences, the well-known chi square test is applied.
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Bojanowski, Piotr, Edouard Grave, Armand Joulin, and Tomas Mikolov. "Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information." Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 5 (December 2017): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00051.
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Continuous word representations, trained on large unlabeled corpora are useful for many natural language processing tasks. Popular models that learn such representations ignore the morphology of words, by assigning a distinct vector to each word. This is a limitation, especially for languages with large vocabularies and many rare words. In this paper, we propose a new approach based on the skipgram model, where each word is represented as a bag of character n-grams. A vector representation is associated to each character n-gram; words being represented as the sum of these representations. Our method is fast, allowing to train models on large corpora quickly and allows us to compute word representations for words that did not appear in the training data. We evaluate our word representations on nine different languages, both on word similarity and analogy tasks. By comparing to recently proposed morphological word representations, we show that our vectors achieve state-of-the-art performance on these tasks.
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Giannoulopoulou, Giannoula. "Morphological contrasts between Modern Greek and Italian." Contrasting contrastive approaches 15, no. 1 (April 3, 2015): 65–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.15.1.04gia.
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The aim of this paper is to discuss topics in contrastive morphology, combining the perspectives of morphological theory and contrastive linguistics. After an overview of the recent literature on contrastive morphology and the relevant ‘tertia comparationis’ in Section 2, Section 3 focuses on the main differences between compounding in Modern Greek and Italian (e.g. the position of the morphological head, the pattern stem+stem in Modern Greek vs. the pattern word+word in Italian). The diachronic dimension, the inflectional system and the role of syntax are put forward as explanatory factors for the differences between the two languages. Two recent types of compounds, [V+V] V in Modern Greek and [V+N] N in Italian, are therefore examined contrastively. The contrastive analysis of compounding is based on three types of equivalence: ‘system equivalence’, ‘rule equivalence’, and ‘morphological age equivalence’. The main conclusion is that a contrastive approach to morphology enables us to deepen our understanding of both the fundamental distinction and the fundamental interconnection between morphology and syntax.
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Lefer, Marie-Aude, and Bruno Cartoni. "Prefixes in contrast." Languages in Contrast 11, no. 1 (March 22, 2011): 87–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.11.1.07lef.
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This paper proposes a meaning-based contrastive methodology for the study of prefixation in English, French and Italian which is easily adaptable to other languages and word-formation processes. Our discussion centres on some of the central methodological and theoretical issues involved in contrastive lexical morphology, an area which, to date, has largely remained under-researched. Precise defining criteria for derivative (and prefix) status are presented in order to decide what counts as a derivative (or as a prefix) and what does not. Emphasis is also put on a fined-grained semantic tertium comparationis elaborated for the cross-linguistic investigation of lexical morphology and based on a six-tiered semantic categorisation, viz. location, evaluation, negation, quantity, modality, and inchoativity, most of which are further divided into finer subcategories. This macro-approach makes it possible to draw important generalisations about the use of word-formation devices across languages.
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Yusuf, Gina Lora. "Analysis of The English Closed Compound Words." Jurnal Ilmiah Langue and Parole 1, no. 1 (June 23, 2017): 14–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.36057/jilp.v1i1.3.
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Compound Words is a part of elements that finding in morphology. Morphology is learning about morpheme and morpheme is the element of language that have meaning and also support the meaning. The morphology will involve two element, they are free element and not free element. The problem in this research is analyzing compound words that find in Jakarta Post. Compound words that describe in this research is closed compound words.
This research is kind of linguistic. This research also use descriptive qualitative method. The method of this research is the method that describe the word, sentences and paragraph which take from the source data with describe the meaning of the data. Beside that, this research also use library research. The library research just talk about the data that already prepare by the analyze data that have been get from the source data by using basic theories that support this research. In this research, the researcher take the source data from one edition of Jakarta Post Newspaper. All of data that needed come from that source.
The first step that use by the researcher is collecting the basic data which take from the source data. After that the basic data will be collecting, so the researcher will be grouping the data based on the type. Based on the limitation problem of this research just analyze four problems, so analyzing the data just describe four problems. The first problem is the form of compound words are combining that find in Jakarta Post Newspaper. The second problem is what is the meaning of compound word before and after combination. The third is the syntactic function of compound words that has been combined. And the last is the rule that have in compound words.
Based on the research, the researcher find the unique of the word that appear from the compound words. among if one word combine with another word so the word have a different meaning. There are some meaning still follow the basic meaning and also there are some meaning make a new meaning and doesn’t describe the two words. the unique take from the form data, the function and also the rule that have in the words. Based on this research, the researcher understand about the compound words.
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Samsi, Yogi Setia. "LEARNING ENGLISH WORD CLASS BY USING CONCORDANCE SOFTWARE." ELT in Focus 1, no. 1 (August 7, 2018): 19–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.35706/eltinfc.v1i1.1349.
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Concordance is one of the software based corpus linguistics which aims to analyze the unlimited data. This software caused the lecturing delivered comprehensively and understood easily by students. Regarding to this application, it will always make easier the student to learn, identify, and analyze the data in order to determine English word class within various texts. This study is about morphology to get how the process of teaching English word class with concordance software is, and how are the students’ responses toward teaching English word class with concordance software. Corpus is taken from BNC/ British national corpus analyzed byword class categories as Thomas (1993) theory, to achieve the focus comprehensively in recognizing English word class categories. Concordance is available to use either English teaching or linguistics one.
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Hamzai, Jeta. "Context Based and Non-Context Based Interpretation of English Compounds in Legal Discourse-A Case Study with ESP Law Students." SEEU Review 16, no. 1 (June 12, 2021): 66–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/seeur-2021-0005.
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Abstract Due to new innovations and changes, every language needs new words simply because there is a need for new words to name new things. It is a common occurrence for a speaker to use some words in a way that has never been used before in order to communicate directly about certain facts or ideas. When new inventions and changes come into people’s lives, there is a need to name them and talk about them. If a new word is used by many speakers of the language, it will probably survive, and the same word will one day become an everyday word and enter the vocabulary of a language. This paper looks at compounding as one of the most productive word formation process in English. The term compounding refers to a process in which two or more lexemes are combined into one new word. When a word is formed by merging two or more words, each of which can be used separately, it is called a compound word. The term “word formation” has no universally accepted use. Word formation is sometimes defined as a process associated with changing the form of a word, for example, affixation, which is, in fact, the subject of morphology. In a broader sense, word formation covers the processes of creating new lexical items. In English, word formation is of great importance because this phenomenon affects the English dictionary, which in addition to borrowing from various other languages is enriched in this way. The aim of this paper was to investigate the context based vs. non-context interpretation of English compounds by EFL students in legal discourse. The findings from the test run-questionnaire showed that students of English as a foreign language found it more difficult to apply compound words in context rather than choosing an appropriate definition for them, with or without a given context. Furthermore, students scored lower when 50% of the compounds were given in context.
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Sahardin, Rosnani, Syarifah Hudiya, and Iskandar Abdul Samad. "AN INVESTIGATION OF WORD FORMATION PROCESSES OF INDONESIAN SLANG WORDS." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 8, no. 3 (May 15, 2020): 209–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2020.8322.
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Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study is to find out the slang word-formation processes uttered by Kasino, the main character in the movie. Slang also underwent some processes in general word-formation.
Methodology: The research method of this study was descriptive qualitative with content analysis. Content analysis is one of the types of qualitative research that focuses on analyzing recorded data and interpreting recorded material to learn human behavior. The data for this qualitative research were collected from the utterances produced by Kasino which contain slang words. They were obtained by watching the movie and transcribing the movie script. To analyze the processes of slang word-formation, this study consulted Mattiello’s (2008) theory.
Main Findings: From the analysis, this study found 11 slangs of compounding, 16 slang of prefixation, 19 slang of suffixation, 9 slang of conversion, 9 slang of reduplicative, 2 slangs of acronym and initialism, 6 slangs of blending, 13 slangs of clipping, 98 slangs of variation, and 2 slangs of word manufactured and fanciful formation from the total of 186 data.
Application of this study: The finding of this research contributes theoretically and practically for the sociolinguistic and morphology area of slang words. Theoretically, this research is expected to enrich the understanding of sociolinguistic and morphology studies, especially in slang word-formation. Practically, this research is expected to give a relevant answer into the gap based on the lack of slang word and the slang word-formation existed in Indonesian comedy movies.
Novelty/Originality of this study: The different types of word-formation processes found in this research can assist readers and other researchers on the Indonesian slang word-formation processes.
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Wibowo, Sastya Hendri, Busono Soerowirdjo, Ernastuti, and Avinanta Tarigan. "Spelling Checker of Words in Rejang Language Using the N-Gram and Euclidean Distance Methods." Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 16, no. 12 (December 1, 2019): 5384–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2019.8607.
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Spelling mistakes of words in writing Rejang words are often found so it is difficult to understand. The method used in correcting word errors (spelling checkers) has been carried out by several researchers. In this research, words were improved in Rejang words based on the morphology of the Reajang language using the N-gram and Euclidean Distance methods. The process begins with forming the word practice with the N-gram method in cutting a number of words. In the testing process, the pre-process stages are carried out first and the training words are checked based on the existing dictionary. Words that are assumed to be wrong are corrected by looking for words similar to Euclidean Distance. The results of the lowest word resemblance are adjusted to the word training, if it is not appropriate then the word with the highest similarity is considered the correct word to be improved. In this study the experimental results of the words tested produce similarity levels of 20 words and the smallest 3. The results from the calculation of similarity can be directly to correct the wrong word. The results of the study can be seen that word improvement is very dependent on the dictionary word unigram and existing training words. This shows that the N-gram and Euclidean Distance methods are good in spelling checker Rejang language.
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Ruokolainen, Teemu, Oskar Kohonen, Kairit Sirts, Stig-Arne Grönroos, Mikko Kurimo, and Sami Virpioja. "A Comparative Study of Minimally Supervised Morphological Segmentation." Computational Linguistics 42, no. 1 (March 2016): 91–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00243.
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This article presents a comparative study of a subfield of morphology learning referred to as minimally supervised morphological segmentation. In morphological segmentation, word forms are segmented into morphs, the surface forms of morphemes. In the minimally supervised data-driven learning setting, segmentation models are learned from a small number of manually annotated word forms and a large set of unannotated word forms. In addition to providing a literature survey on published methods, we present an in-depth empirical comparison on three diverse model families, including a detailed error analysis. Based on the literature survey, we conclude that the existing methodology contains substantial work on generative morph lexicon-based approaches and methods based on discriminative boundary detection. As for which approach has been more successful, both the previous work and the empirical evaluation presented here strongly imply that the current state of the art is yielded by the discriminative boundary detection methodology.
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Schuhmann, Katharina S., and Michael T. Putnam. "Relativized Prosodic Domains: A Late-Insertion Account of German Plurals." Languages 6, no. 3 (August 23, 2021): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages6030142.
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In late-insertion, realizational models of morphology such as Distributed Morphology (DM), the insertion of Vocabulary Items (VIs) is conditioned by cyclic operations in the syntax. This paper explores whether an isomorphic relationship can be established between cyclic operations such as phases and prosodic domains. In the spirit of D’Alessandro and Scheer’s (2015) proposal of a Modular Phase Impenetrability Condition (MPIC), we strive to provide an analysis in which prosodic boundaries in even smaller, word-level-like syntactic structures—the ‘lexical domain’—can be identified solely within the syntax. We propose a DM-account for the distribution of nominal plural exponency in German, which reveals a dominant trend for a trochaic-foot structure for all but -s-plural exponents (Wiese 2001, 2009). Inspired by Gouskova’s (2019) and Svenonius’ (2016) work concerning the prosody–morphology interface, we argue that the index of a Prosodic Word ω in non-s-plurals is associated with a specific feature configuration. We propose that only a n[+pl(ural)] configuration, in which the nominalizing head n hosts the SynSem-feature Num(ber)[+pl(ural)], rather than a general cyclic categorizing phase head such as n, indexes a Prosodic Word ω for nominal plural exponents in (Standard) German. Based on this empirical evidence from German plural exponency, we argue that (i) prosodic boundaries can be established directly by syntactic structures, (ii) these prosodic boundaries condition VI insertion during the initial stages of Spell-Out, and (iii) prosodic domains are based on individual languages’ syntactic structures and feature configurations, and are thus relativized and language-specific in nature.
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Moghaddam, Sara Mohammadi, and Mahmoud Ramazanzadeh Lak. "Revival of Persian language in today writings based on morphological system of fifth century texts." Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 7, no. 3 (January 7, 2018): 107–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjflt.v7i3.2996.
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This paper will investigate ‘Making the word of Persian literature in the fifth century Hijri and comparison with Today literature’ and is based on the model of the theory of Chomsky’s transformation. The research tools in this article are from the books of Bayhaqi, Siyasatnama and Chahar - Maghaleh from fifth century literature. The two books ‘Khorshide Maghreb’ and ‘sad sal dastan nevisi dar Iran’, which today are paragraphed prose is given. The results of the hypothesis in this paper show the following: 1) a simple word frequency in fifth century texts with contemporary Persian prose texts and derivative–compound comprising more than words; 2) with the help of a revival of affixes and word combinations, texts used in the fifth century that are in decline and forgotten can be used today, in the words of Persian literature; 3) Persian is a suffix language.
Keywords: Morphology, prefix, affixes-simple, today Persian writings, fifth century texts.
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E. Díaz Vera, Javier. "Derivation in a word-based morphology: on the origin of Old English verbs of perception, cognition and emotion." Linguistica 51, no. 1 (December 31, 2011): 285–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.51.1.285-290.
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In this paper I describe the process of grammaticalization of Old English causative verbs through the analysis of some of the different strategies for the expression of causation in three different lexical domains: PHYSICAL PERCEPTION, COGNITION and EMOTION. The etymological analysis of these verbs indicates that, in the case of the three lexical domains under scrutiny, causation was lexicalized and conceptualized as forced movement or change of an external (as in the case of verbs of FEELING; e.g. OE hieran 'to hear') or internal (i.e. verbs of COGNITION and some EMOTION verbs; e.g. OE gemynan 'to remember' and OE hiertan 'to encourage') part of the body.
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Reinöhl, Uta. "What are and what aren’t complex nominal expressions in flexible word order languages." STUF - Language Typology and Universals 73, no. 1 (April 28, 2020): 57–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2019-0027.
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AbstractThis paper tackles the challenge of how to identify multi-word (or “complex”) nominal expressions in flexible word order languages including certain Australian languages and Vedic Sanskrit. In these languages, a weak or absent noun/adjective distinction in conjunction with flexible word order make it often hard to distinguish between complex nominal expressions, on the one hand, and cases where the nominals in question form independent expressions, on the other hand. Based on a discourse-based understanding of what it means to form a nominal expression, this paper surveys various cases where we are not dealing with multi-word nominal expressions. This involves, in particular, periphery-related phenomena such as use of nominals as free topics or afterthoughts, as well as various kinds of predicative uses. In the absence of clear morpho-syntactic evidence, all kinds of linguistic evidence are relied upon, including, in particular, information structure and prosody, but also derivational morphology and lexical semantics. In this way, it becomes frequently possible to distinguish between what are and what aren’t complex nominal expressions in these languages.
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Xu, Zhiwang, Huibin Qin, and Yongzhu Hua. "Research on Uyghur-Chinese Neural Machine Translation Based on the Transformer at Multistrategy Segmentation Granularity." Mobile Information Systems 2021 (June 25, 2021): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5744248.
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In recent years, machine translation based on neural networks has become the mainstream method in the field of machine translation, but there are still challenges of insufficient parallel corpus and sparse data in the field of low resource translation. Existing machine translation models are usually trained on word-granularity segmentation datasets. However, different segmentation granularities contain different grammatical and semantic features and information. Only considering word granularity will restrict the efficient training of neural machine translation systems. Aiming at the problem of data sparseness caused by the lack of Uyghur-Chinese parallel corpus and complex Uyghur morphology, this paper proposes a multistrategy segmentation granular training method for syllables, marked syllable, words, and syllable word fusion and targets traditional recurrent neural networks and convolutional neural networks; the disadvantage of the network is to build a Transformer Uyghur-Chinese Neural Machine Translation model based entirely on the multihead self-attention mechanism. In CCMT2019, dimension results on Uyghur-Chinese bilingual datasets show that the effect of multiple translation granularity training method is significantly better than the rest of granularity segmentation translation systems, while the Transformer model can obtain higher BLEU value than Uyghur-Chinese translation model based on Self-Attention-RNN.
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Aranovich, Raúl. "Language as a complex algebra: Post-structuralism and inflectional morphology in Saussure’s Cours." Semiotica 2016, no. 208 (January 1, 2016): 133–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0118.
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AbstractIn Item-and-Arrangement models of inflection, morphemes are associations of form and meaning stored in a mental lexicon. Saussure’s notion of the linguistic sign as a unit of an acoustic image (signifier) and a concept (signified) immediately suggests such a model. But close examination of the examples of inflectional morphology throughout the Cours brings Saussure’s ideas more in line with Process morphology, a model in which recurrent elements in word forms are exponents of content features, and realizational rules license a word form inferentially from the word’s content. The Saussurean sign allowed French structuralists to revolutionize the methods of modern social science, eschewing the motives and intentions of human actors to focus on the system of oppositions that make signification possible in each domain. Eventually, post-structuralism rejected the static nature of the linguistic sign, forcing linguistics into relative isolation (since it held on to sign-based models of language). The criticism of structuralist treatments of morphology in Process models of inflection, however, stands as an exception to this tendency. In retrospect, I argue, similar ideas can be found in Saussure’s view of the langue as a complex algebra.
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Bhattacharja, Shishir. "On the formation of complex predicates in Bengali." Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 5, no. 1 (October 25, 2018): 5–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jsall-2018-0005.
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Abstract In this article we show, in the light of Bengali data, how verbal constructions known as Complex predicates can be handled in grammar. These constructions are generally described as constituted of two items, the former chosen among various categories of words: noun, verbal forms, adjective, preposition, etc., and the latter, a normally inflected verb. We argue that such constructions are words, and it is preferable to handle them exclusively in morphology. We assume, in the light of Whole Word Morphology, that a Word Formation Strategy may become part of the morphological module of a speaker-hearer if her lexica contains a set of semantically related word-pairs based on the same (i) formal contrast and (ii) categorial affiliation. Hence the individual mental lexica of Bengali speaker-hearers contain sets of pairs of words constituted of simple and complex predicates (such as likhe ‘he writes’ ~ likhejay ‘he continues to write’, etc.). These pairs license particular WFSs (such as /Xe/v,3sg prs ↔ /Xejay/v,3sg prs) which can be activated as needed, to form, remember or retrieve other complex predicates such as bolejay ‘he continues to speak’. Therefore, there is no need to list each one of them separately in a mental lexicon.
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Vondřička, Pavel. "Design of a Multiword Expressions Database." Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 112, no. 1 (April 1, 2019): 83–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pralin-2019-0003.
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Abstract The paper proposes design of a generic database for multiword expressions (MWE), based on the requirements for implementation of the lexicon of Czech MWEs. The lexicon is aimed at different goals concerning lexicography, teaching Czech as a foreign language, and theoretical issues of MWEs as entities standing between lexicon and grammar, as well as for NLP tasks such as tagging and parsing, identification and search of MWEs, or word sense and semantic disambiguation. The database is designed to account for flexibility in morphology and word order, syntactic and lexical variants and even creatively used fragments. Current state of implementation is presented together with some emerging issues, problems and solutions.
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Can, Burcu, and Suresh Manandhar. "Tree Structured Dirichlet Processes for Hierarchical Morphological Segmentation." Computational Linguistics 44, no. 2 (June 2018): 349–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00318.
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This article presents a probabilistic hierarchical clustering model for morphological segmentation. In contrast to existing approaches to morphology learning, our method allows learning hierarchical organization of word morphology as a collection of tree structured paradigms. The model is fully unsupervised and based on the hierarchical Dirichlet process. Tree hierarchies are learned along with the corresponding morphological paradigms simultaneously. Our model is evaluated on Morpho Challenge and shows competitive performance when compared to state-of-the-art unsupervised morphological segmentation systems. Although we apply this model for morphological segmentation, the model itself can also be used for hierarchical clustering of other types of data.
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Terluin, Sonja. "Een Minimalistische Analyse Van Tweede-Taalverwervingsdata." Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 61 (January 1, 1999): 49–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ttwia.61.05ter.
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This paper reports on the acquisition of word order and subject-verb agreement by adult Turkish learners of Dutch. Five initial state hypotheses were translated into three Mini-malist hypotheses. An evaluation of these hypotheses showed that Minimal Trees and Full Transfer/'Full Access were empirically hardly distinguishable, in spite of the great differences between the original theories. The selection criterion used turned out to be inappropiate to properly evaluate Weak Features' (based on Valueless Features, the Basic Variety and the Initial Hypothesis of Syntax.) Word order in the initial state is probably determined by the word order of L1. The exact analysis for (the) stage(s) preceding target language structure, however, remains unclear. A strong relationship was found between verb morphology and verb movement, but it is unclear how Turks discover this relationship, which does not exist in their mother tongue.