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 ...

Russian L2 learners of English have to deal with a language which differs significantly from their L1 and thus they can be expected to use transfer. English and Russian use different strategies of marking definiteness/givenness. In the Russian language it is common that the sentence elements which represent given information move into the preverbal position. Russian can also mark givenness through ...

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 ...

This paper describes an experiment to perform language identification on a sub-sentence basis. The typical case of language identification is to detect the language of documents or sentences. However, it may be the case that a single sentence or segment contains more than one language. This is especially the case in texts where code switching occurs.

Краткое изложение Русский язык относится к синтетическим языкам, и грамматические значения слов выражаются в нем словоизменительными морфемами (Гак 1990). Однако многие лингвисты считают, что в русском языке наблюдается тенденция к аналитизму, где синтаксис играет более важную роль, чем словоизменение. Изменения в языковом строе ярче проявляются у имен (Бондаревский 2009). Принято считать, что ...