A streamlined approach to collaborative data management
Cascadilla Proceedings Project > LinguisticsA streamlined approach to collaborative data management
This paper discusses a strategy for linguistic data management developed in the context of a field methods course at the University of Minnesota. We suggest that a collaborative CSV-based approach provides a minimal entry into digitized language documentation, and supports flexibility, time-efficient methods for quality improvements, a track to enduring artifacts, and interoperable data that can be scaled up to other applications as needed. While there are significant shortcomings to this approach it fills a gap for limited, early-project explorations and initiatives. In the context of the field methods classroom, it allowed for quick onboarding, assisted with co-created research goals, and ..
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of AmericaReproduction Package for: Das Mädchen und seine/ihre Pronomen: Genus-Sexus-Divergenz in maschinell generiertem Deutsch
Language and LinguisticsDiss: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Language and Power in Nigerian Air Force Settings
This work was a critical examination of power and ideology in the discourse of members of the Nigerian Air Force (henceforth NAF). The research placed specific focus on how language is used to create, enforce, and promote power relations between soldiers, as well as between soldiers and civilians, within selected NAF settings. Data for the study comprised observations and diary recordings, selected excerpts of press releases on the war against insurgency, as published on the verified Facebook pa
The LINGUIST List > Dissertation AbstractsDiss: Language and Social Class: An Analysis of Language Variation in the Nigerian Air Force Base, Kaduna
Language is a vital tool for communal interaction and social mobility. The levels of its application in any given society usually provide an insight into the social structure of the group. Consequently, modern linguistic studies have focused their attention on the relationship between a linguistic code and the society in which it is being employed. It is in this perspective that this research, ‘Language and Social Class: An Analysis of Language Variation in the Nigerian Air Force Base, Kaduna.’
The LINGUIST List > Dissertation AbstractsMicrovariation in the Interpretation of English Negative Sentences
We present the results of a semantic judgment task with African American English (AAE), Appalachian English (AppE) and Mainstream US English (MUSE) users. Participants read sentences such as Nobody didn't see me with a negative subject and negated auxiliary. Sentences were presented in contexts that biased toward double negation (='everybody saw me') or negative concord (='nobody saw me') readings, and were followed by True/False judgments on statements that revealed participants' interpretation of the sentence. The results afford novel evidence for a point of microvariation in American English negation, since AppE and AAE users more readily generate both NC and DN meanings for the sentence ..
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of AmericaMind de re
I outline the semantics of verification and examine its interaction with de re ascriptions. Verification sentences are analysed as having a layered structure comprising two unary operators, VER and AC - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyNotes on plain futurates: Modality, description, and causation
Plain futurates—bare-verb or simple-present sentences that assert a scheduled future event—raise a version of Aristotle’s puzzle of future contingents: how can a modal-free sentence make a determinate - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsCatalan numbers and the theoretical limits of morphosyntactic variation
The number of possible binary trees is a function of the number of leaves in the tree. The growth of this function coincides with the series of Catalan numbers, a numerical sequence with many applicat - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxQuantifiers are in Different Positions: all and both in English, German, and Yiddish
This paper argues that the quantifiers for all and both can occur in different positions in the three closely related languages English, German, and Yiddish. Such differences have to be taken into con - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxFrom abstract to episodic: representations in speech production
Eliminativist usage-based and classical generative speech production models differ fundamentally in two respects: (i) the nature of speech representations and (ii) the locus of linguistic knowledge. I - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyOn selective LF wh-movement: What Superiority and wh-islands tell us about wh-in-situ in Japanese
The paper examines wh-in-situ in Japanese and argues for a position that is in between wholesale LF wh-movement approaches, where all in-situ wh-phrases in Japanese undergo movement in LF, and the tre - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxIndented Bracketed Representation: A Tree-like Representation for Bracketed Representations of Syntactic Structures
Bracketed notation is a standard, compact method for representing syntactic structures. Yet as structural depth increases—especially within high-density cartographic frameworks—standard linear bracket - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxChildren’s acquisition of the meaning of disjunction
The question of how young children interpret disjunctive words like English “or” has become a topic of increased attention in the recent developmental semantic/pragmatic literature. We present a thema - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsContact explains patterns of language change in Italo-Romance
Language contact is a crucial factor determining language change. This study defines a novel methodology to quantify the extent of its relevance, testing it on the distribution of 23 syntactic feature - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxTwo arguments for a movement analysis of Negative Doubling
This paper presents novel evidence from two Northern Italian dialects supporting a movement-based analysis of Negative Doubling , in which a single-negation reading arises from the co-occurrence of a - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
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