Lexical typology : a programmatic sketch

The present paper is an attempt to lay the foundation for Lexical Typology as a new kind of linguistic typology.1 The goal of Lexical Typology is to investigate crosslinguistically significant patterns of interaction between lexicon and grammar

16th International NooJ 2022 Conference: Book of Abstracts

Libro de resúmenes presentados en la "16th International NooJ 2022 Conference", de modalidad híbrida, realizada en el ECU (Espacio Cultural Universitario, UNR) en Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, entre el 14 y 15 de junio de 2022.Fil: Reyes, Silvia Susana. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes; Argentin

On the Logistical Difficulties and Findings of Jopara Sentiment Analysis

[Abstract] This paper addresses the problem of sentiment analysis for Jopara, a code-switching language between Guarani and Spanish. We first collect a corpus of Guarani-dominant tweets and discuss on the difficulties of finding quality data for even relatively easy-to-annotate tasks, such as sentiment analysis. Then, we train a set of neural models, including pre-trained language models, and explore whether they perform better than traditional machine learning ones in this low-resource setup. Transformer architectures obtain the best results, despite not considering Guarani during pre-training, but traditional machine learning models perform close due to the low-resource nature of the problem.DV is supported by a 2020 Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators from the FBBVA. 15 DV also receives funding from MINECO (ANSWER-ASAP, TIN2017-85160-C2-1-R), from Xunta de Galicia (ED431C 2020/11), from Centro de Investigación de Galicia ‘CITIC’, funded by Xunta de Galicia and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund- Galicia 2014-2020 Program) by grant ED431G 2019/01Xunta de Galicia; ED431C 2020/11Xunta de Galicia; ED431G 2019/01https://aclanthology.org/2021.calcs-

Emphatic Repetition in Spoken Arabic

This paper identifies and explains Arabic emphatic repetition in ethnographic interviews against the general backdrop of an understanding of non-pragmatically motivated repetition in Spoken Arabic. It also considers the basic linguistic resources for expressing intensity in the lexicon and syntax and the significance of repetition as one of these resources. The latter part of the paper explains how these resources are drawn on in interaction and what other types of spontaneous immediate emphatic repetition occur. This approach allows for a nuanced interpretation of the salience of emphatic repetition in this spoken Arabic genre. The discussion contributes to our general understanding of the essence of repetition that allows it to be used as a productive interactive resource

Differential Object Marking in Romance

After a “first wave” of traditional studies on prepositional accusatives and a “second wave” exploring the typological dimensions of Differential Object Marking in Bossong’s footsteps, a new line of research is currently introducing new methods, deepening the level of analysis, and offering new perspectives on the issue. This volume presents 11 innovative, original contributions representative of this “third wave” of studies on DOM in Romance

Methods in prosody

This book presents a collection of pioneering papers reflecting current methods in prosody research with a focus on Romance languages. The rapid expansion of the field of prosody research in the last decades has given rise to a proliferation of methods that has left little room for the critical assessment of these methods. The aim of this volume is to bridge this gap by embracing original contributions, in which experts in the field assess, reflect, and discuss different methods of data gathering and analysis. The book might thus be of interest to scholars and established researchers as well as to students and young academics who wish to explore the topic of prosody, an expanding and promising area of study

Text, grammar, and worlds

Bei dieser Dissertation handelt es sich um eine einzelsprachlich typologische Beschreibung des traditionellen narrativen Genres "Kwintu" in Cusco Quechua. Hauptziele der Arbeit sind die Aufstellung eines Wissensmodells (oder einer Textwelt) für das narrative Genre und die Beschreibung diskursgrammatischer Merkmale innerhalb dieses Genres. Neben einer umfangreichen linguistischen Untersuchung ausgewählter Texte werden kulturelle Hintergründe der andinen Erzähltradition, textsemantische und erzähltheoretische Strukturen sowie stilistische Merkmale beleuchtet. Dabei wird, sofern sprachvergleichende Daten vorliegen, auf universale Tendenzen und Quechua-spezifische Merkmale hingewiesen. Die narrative Textwelt des Cusco Quechua ergibt sich aus den „Mittelwerten“ der untersuchten Erzählungen, die als prototypisch für das Genre „Kwintu“ anzunehmen sind. Zudem wird festgestellt, inwiefern sich textsemantische Größen und stilistische Merkmale in linguistischen Strukturen niederschlagen. Die Arbeit soll einen Beitrag zur textbasierten Forschung innerhalb der Kognitiven Linguistik und Sprachtypologie leisten

Differential Object Marking in Romance

After a “first wave” of traditional studies on prepositional accusatives and a “second wave” exploring the typological dimensions of Differential Object Marking in Bossong’s footsteps, a new line of research is currently introducing new methods, deepening the level of analysis, and offering new perspectives on the issue. This volume presents 11 innovative, original contributions representative of this “third wave” of studies on DOM in Romance

Other-initiated repair in Cha’palaa

This article describes the interactional patterns and linguistic structures associated with otherinitiated repair, as observed in a corpus of video-recorded conversation in the Cha’palaa (a Barbacoan language spoken in north-western Ecuador). Special attention is given to the relation of repair formats to the morphosyntactic and intonational systems of the language. It examines the distinctive falling intonation observed with interjections and content question formats and the pattern of a held mid-high tone observed in polarity questions, as well as the function of Cha’palaa grammatical features such as the case marking system, the nominal classifiers and the verb classification system as formats for repair initiation. It considers a selection of examples from a video corpus to illustrate a broad range of sequence types of opened and restricted other-initiated repair, noting that Cha’palaa had the highest relative rate of open repair in the cross-linguistic sample. It also considers the extension of OIR to other practices such as news uptake and disagreement in the Cha’palaa corpus