TROLLing: Open Data for Linguists The field of linguistics has taken a quantitative turn in recent years (Janda 2013). The majority of conference presentations, articles, and books in our field now involve some kind of quantitative analysis of language data, and results are often measured using statistical methods. However, best practices in terms of quantitative analysis in linguistics are still ...

This article provides a general survey of a number of (mostly Indo-European) gender systems. In recent years, regularities found in those systems have been accounted for by rule-based approaches where gender is assigned on-line by symbolic rules. A critical investigation of those accounts suggests that gender of existing nouns is stored individually, but that there must also be a mechanism that ...

Den teknologiske utviklingen har gitt informasjonsalderens lingvister tilgang til mye større datamengder enn før. Mens datainnsamling bare for noen få år siden krevde mye tid og arbeid, er data i dag bare noen tastetrykk unna idet vi kan benytte oss av store elektroniske korpus. I denne artikkelen drøfter vi de konsekvensene den teknologiske utviklingen i korpuslingvistikken kan få for ...

This paper explains the polysemy of Russian verbal prefixes through their position in the VP. The lexical entry remains constant throughout all the uses of a given prefix, while the structure into which a prefix is inserted varies.

At a first glance, the variety of possible denotations of a given prefix might appear a chaotic set of idiomatic meanings, e.g. the prefix za- may refer to the beginning of an action, movement to a position behind an object, a brief deviation from a path, or completion of an action. I propose a unified analysis of prefixes, where the differences in meaning are claimed to arise from different syntactic ...