Essays about: "Typological Linguistic Information"

Found 4 essays containing the words Typological Linguistic Information.

  1. 1. Phasal Polarity in Bantu Languages : A typological study

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Althea Löfgren; [2019]
    Keywords : aspect; bantu; phasal polarity; tense;

    Abstract : This study explores a category of expressions akin to not yet, already, still and no longer, called PhasalPolarity (PhP) expressions and builds on the work of Löfgren (2018). PhP expressions encode the domainsof phasal values, polarity and speaker expectations and have previously been described in Europeanlanguages (van der Auwera: 1998) and in a small, genealogically diverse sample (van Baar: 1997). READ MORE

  3. 2. Semantic frame based automatic extraction of typological information from descriptive grammars

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Irfan Aslam; [2019]
    Keywords : Automatic Information Extraction; Spoken Languages; Typological Linguistic Information; Logistic Regression; Classification;

    Abstract : This thesis project addresses the machine learning (ML) modelling aspects of the problem of automatically extracting typological linguistic information of natural languages spoken in South Asia from annotated descriptive grammars. Without getting stuck into the theory and methods of Natural Language Processing (NLP), the focus has been to develop and test a machine learning (ML) model dedicated to the information extraction part. READ MORE

  4. 3. Quantifying loanwords: A study of borrowability in the Finnish lexicon

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Sandra Cronhamn; [2018]
    Keywords : loanwords; Finnish; Uralic languages; language contact; borrowing; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The current study set out to investigate patterns of loanwords in a sample of 1,460 lexical meanings in the Finnish lexicon by means of quantitative methods. The methodology used was borrowed from the Loanword Typology project (Haspelmath & Tadmor 2009a), and consisted of a template including various fields, where information about each lexical item was coded. READ MORE

  5. 4. She seldoms to what? An investigation into adverbial verbs and interrogative verbs in verb-initial languages

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Victor Bogren Svensson; [2017]
    Keywords : Adverbial verbs; interrogative verbs; verb-initial languages; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Adverbial verbs and interrogative verbs are two relatively rare and underexplored linguistic phenomena that are investigated in this typological study. Adverbial verbs are verbal constituents that possess the morphosyntactic properties of verbs but that encode manner and temporal information, instead of referring to states or events as verbs prototypically do. READ MORE