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Multilingual Processing in Eastern and Southern EU Languages

Author : Cristina Vertan

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Page : 410 pages

File Size : 38,67 MB

Release : 2012-04-25

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1443839620

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This volume draws attention to many specific challenges of multilingual processing within the European Union, especially after the recent successive enlargement. Most of the languages considered herein are not only ‘less resourced’ in terms of processing tools and training data, but also have features which are different from the well known international language pairs. The 16 contributions address specific problems and solutions for languages from south-eastern and central Europe in the context of multilingual communication, translation and information retrieval.



Maltese Linguistics

Author : Ray Fabri

Publisher : Brockmeyer Verlag

Page : 145 pages

File Size : 32,38 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Maltese language

ISBN : 381960734X

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Complementizer Semantics in European Languages

Author : Kasper Boye

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 883 pages

File Size : 17,5 MB

Release : 2016-07-11

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110416662

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Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.



The Handbook of Language Emergence

Author : Brian MacWhinney

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 651 pages

File Size : 16,62 MB

Release : 2018-05-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1119075386

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This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidly evolving emergentist paradigm. Brings together an international team of contributors, including the most prominent advocates of linguistic emergentism Focuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints Examines forces on widely divergent timescales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolution Addresses key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this handbook the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever



Coastal Dhofari Arabic

Author : Richard Davey

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 335 pages

File Size : 35,78 MB

Release : 2016-05-23

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9004317430

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In Coastal Dhofari Arabic: A Sketch Grammar, Richard Davey provides a detailed description of a hitherto neglected Arabic dialect found in southern Oman. Previously recorded by Rhodokanakis, as part of the südarabische Expedition of the Austrian Imperial Academy, the dialect presented here offers a specific account of the day-to-day language spoken by the historical sedentary, coastal community. Using data collected during 2010-2012, Richard Davey delivers an overview of the phonology, morphology and syntax of this variety. In addition to this, a lexicon of coastal Dhofari Arabic is provided, along with a discussion of its grammaticalized features. It is a timely account of a dialect that is endangered due to development, modernization, and the resulting social changes in Dhofar.



Oceanic Voices - European Quills

Author : Steven Roger Fischer

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 245 pages

File Size : 32,98 MB

Release : 2015-03-03

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3050064110

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"Oceanic Voices - European Quills" celebrates the linguistic historiography of two Oceanic poles. The northwest Pacific's Chamorro of Guam and the Northern Marianas was the first (16th century), and the southeast Pacific's Rapanui of Easter Island one of the last (19th century) of the Austronesian tongues to inspire linguistic investigation within greater Oceania. These pioneering efforts are honored in nine articles which document, translate, chronicle, describe and analyze the earliest relics from these two island cultures. This collection of articles reveals fundamental insights not only into earlier stages of both Chamorro and Rapanui but also into the very discipline of linguistic historiography in one of Earth's humanly richest and most fascinating regions.



Introducing Maltese Linguistics

Author : Bernard Comrie

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 440 pages

File Size : 33,83 MB

Release : 2009-06-24

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027290296

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This collection of articles highlights a selection of on-going research projects. Phonological, morphological, and syntactic issues are addressed by international experts on Maltese. The diachronic development of Maltese, its age-long contact with Italo-Romance, and the present diglossic situation with co-official English are the topics of a variety of contributions to this volume. The repercussions that the promotion of Maltese to the status of official working language of the EU has on the Maltese lexicon are discussed. A project on the sociolinguistics of non-native Maltese-English is presented. The problems posed by the creation of electronic resources for Maltese are equally focused upon. The papers amply demonstrate that Maltese Linguistics can stand on its own outside the traditional field of Oriental Studies.



Tristia Ex Melitogaudo

Author : Joseph Busuttil

Publisher :

Page : 471 pages

File Size : 29,12 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Expositiones spirituales incerti authoris

ISBN : 9789993208334

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