• Automatic Identification of Shared Arguments in Verbal Coordinations 

      Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs; Eckhoff, Hanne Martine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      We describe automatic conversion of the SynTagRus dependency treebank of Russian to the PROIEL format (with the ultimate purpose of obtaining a single-format diachronic treebank spanning more than a thousand years), focusing on analysis of shared arguments in verbal coordinations. Whether arguments are shared or private is not marked in the SynTagRus native format, but the PROIEL format indicates ...
    • Imperfect language learning reduces morphological overspecification: Experimental evidence 

      Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs; Semenuks, Arturs (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-27)
      It is often claimed that languages with more non-native speakers tend to become morphologically simpler, presumably because non-native speakers learn the language imperfectly. A growing number of studies support this claim, but there is a dearth of experiments that evaluate it and the suggested explanatory mechanisms. We performed a large-scale experiment which directly tested whether imperfect ...
    • Linguistics vs. digital editions: The Tromsø Old Russian and OCS Treebank 

      Eckhoff, Hanne Martine; Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      <p>The Tromsø Old Russian and OCS Treebank (TOROT, nestor.uit.no)1 is, along with its parent treebank, the PROIEL corpus (foni.uio.no), the only existing treebank of Old Church Slavonic (OCS), Old East Slavic and Middle Russian texts. There are other tagged resources, such as the Old Russian subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus2 and the Manuskript corpus,3 but none of them, to our knowledge, ...