scholarly journals Centering Theory, transitions and referent marking in the corpus of the written Serbian language

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 69-87
Author(s):  
Radoslava Trnavac
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Complex Sentence ◽  
Minimal Form ◽  
Local Coherence ◽  
Centering Theory ◽  
Type Of Transition ◽  
Written Corpus ◽  
The Way ◽  
Newspaper Articles

The aim of the paper is to map various types of anaphor to the centering transitions in the corpus of Serbian newspaper articles. Centering Theory (WALKER, JOSHI ET AL. 1998) is a theory of local coherence in which four types of transitions are used as parameters of coherence. As is hypothesized in the previous literature based on various languages, the CONTINUE transition is mostly characterized by a minimal form (a zero form of the topic), while the SMOOTH and ROUGH shifts are found with a full noun phrase topic. The analysis shows that the ?Ordering Rule? of Centering Theory is not fully followed in the written corpus of the Serbian language since SMOOTH SHIFT has been identified as a prevalent type of transition in the corpus. The following two reasons were identified for that: (1) the genre of the newspaper articles, and (2) the way clauses are combined within a complex sentence in the Serbian written corpus.

God’s Marketeer

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Martijn Abrahamse
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Dutch Society ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Billy Graham ◽  
The Way ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Summary This article deals with the reception of Billy Graham and modern evangelicalism in the fragmented society of the Netherlands in 1954. It takes its departure from the stream of newspaper articles published between February and June in response to the Greater London Crusade and Graham’s first large scale rally in Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium. The analysis of the reports in different newspapers, which represent the different social groups (catholic, protestant, socialist and liberal) in Dutch society, reveals a significant shift in the way Billy Graham was perceived: from initial scepticism to mild appreciation. This change in press coverage, it is concluded, is mainly due to the different way in which Billy Graham presented himself compared with the large-scale publicity which surrounded his campaign.

scholarly journals Language and Learner Specific Influences on the Emergence of Consonantal Place and Manner Features

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvan Rose ◽  
Natalie Penney
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
First Language ◽  
Phonological Representation ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Distributional Properties ◽  
Phonological Categories ◽  
Word Forms ◽  
The Way

This article focuses on the emergence of consonantal place and manner feature categories in the speech of first language learners. Starting with an overview of current representational approaches to phonology, we take the position that only models that allow for the emergence of phonological categories at all levels of phonological representation (from sub-segmental properties of speech sounds all the way to word forms represented within the child’s lexicon) can account for the data. We begin with a cross-linguistic survey of the acquisition of rhotic consonants. We show that the types of substitutions affecting different rhotics cross-linguistically can be predicted from two main observations: the phonetic characteristics of these rhotics and the larger system of categories displayed by each language. We then turn to a peculiar pattern of labial substitution for coronal continuants in the speech of a German learner. Building on previous literature on the topic, we attribute the emergence of this pattern to distributional properties of the child’s developing lexicon. Together, these observations suggest that our understanding of phonological emergence must involve a consideration of multiple, potentially interacting levels of phonetic and phonological representation.

The Power and The Truth. A Film. A National Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 171-194
Author(s):  
Ion Indolean ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
National Project ◽  
The Press ◽  
Political Film ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Nicolae Ceausescu ◽  
The Way ◽  
Newspaper Articles

"This article tries to understand what type of film is approved by the Nicolae Ceauşescu regime and how it is promoted, through various propaganda channels. In this sense, we choose to discuss the film made by the artistic couple Manole Marcus - Titus Popovici, The Power and The Truth (1972), and we resort to a content analysis to understand the way it was made. We are also interested in the echoes of the film in the press of the time and how with the help of newspaper articles the authorities inoculate the idea that this film is the most important cinematographic achievement of the moment, a benchmark for political productions to be made from that point on. Keywords: Cinematography, Political Film, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Manole Marcus, Titus Popovici, Propaganda "

The Method to Analyze Freely Described Data from Questionnaires

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaomi Kimura ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Call Center ◽  
Clustering Algorithms ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
The Way ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Text mining has been growing; mainly due to the need to extract useful information from vast amounts of textual data. Our target here is text data, a collection of freely described data from questionnaires. Unlike research papers, newspaper articles, call-center logs and web pages, which are usually the targets of text mining analysis, the freely described data contained in the questionnaire responses have specific characteristics, including a small number of short sentences forming individual pieces of data, while the wide variety of content precludes the applications of clustering algorithms used to classify the same. In this paper, we suggest the way to extract the opinions which are delivered by multiple respondents, based on the modification relationships included in each sentence in the freely described data. Certain applications of our method are also presented after the introduction of our approach.

Adjectives in Modern Greek: an instance of predication, or an old issue revisited

1996 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melita Stavrou
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Definite Article ◽  
Asymmetrical Distribution ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Semantic Account ◽  
The Way

In the present article the problem of the position of the adjectives in the noun phrase in Modern Greek is addressed. Rather than starting from their alleged ‘asymmetrical’ distribution, according to which postnominal adjectives are only allowed in indefinite DPs, I concentrate on the possible interpretations that the adjective can have relative to the noun. The differences between prenominal and apparently postnominal adjectives in indefinite DPs suggest a predicative reading of the latter. This semantic account motivates a corresponding syntactic one, according to which the noun moving upwards to a head DEF, formally distinct from D, enters a predicative relationship with the AP generated uniquely prenominally. Such a movement is precluded in definite DPs, because the DEF position is occupied by the definite article. In this way, a number of differences observed between definite and indefinite NPs, as far as ‘postnominal’ adjectives are concerned, are seen as consequences of their predicative nature and the way this interacts with the definiteness/indefiniteness of what serves as their subject.

The Semantics of Partitive Constructions The definite vs. indefinite contrast in Italian and Latin

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Casadio
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Semantic Properties ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper investigates the semantic properties of partitive constructions in Italian and Latin. Two basic realizations of partitivity are discussed, depending on the way the partition operation is performed on noun phrase denotations, that is, depending on the characterization of the part-whole relation: they will be called

scholarly journals Specificity distinction

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Donka F. Farkas
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Semantic Type ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Way

This paper is concerned with semantic noun phrase typology, focusing on the question of how to draw fine-grained distinctions necessary for an accurate account of natural language phenomena. In the extensive literature on this topic, the most commonly encountered parameters of classification concern the semantic type of the denotation of the noun phrase, the familiarity or novelty of its referent, the quantificational/nonquantificational distinction (connected to the weak/strong dichotomy), as well as, more recently, the question of whether the noun phrase is choice-functional or not (see Reinhart 1997, Winter 1997, Kratzer 1998, Matthewson 1999). In the discussion that follows I will attempt to make the following general points: (i) phenomena involving the behavior of noun phrases both within and across languages point to the need of establishing further distinctions that are too fine-grained to be caught in the net of these typologies; (ii) some of the relevant distinctions can be captured in terms of conditions on assignment functions; (iii) distribution and scopal peculiarities of noun phrases may result from constraints they impose on the way variables they introduce are to be assigned values. Section 2 reviews the typology of definite noun phrases introduced in Farkas 2000 and the way it provides support for the general points above. Section 3 examines some of the problems raised by recognizing the rich variety of 'indefinite' noun phrases found in natural language and by attempting to capture their distribution and interpretation. Common to the typologies discussed in the two sections is the issue of marking different types of variation in the interpretation of a noun phrase. In the light of this discussion, specificity turns out to be an epiphenomenon connected to a family of distinctions that are marked differently in different languages.  

scholarly journals Pronominale demonstrativer: nye perspektiver fra norsk og svensk

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-224
Author(s):  
Kari Kinn ◽  
Ida Larsson
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

This paper is concerned with pronominal demonstatives (referred to as psychologically distal demonstratives by Johannessen 2008a, b) in older Norwegian spoken language, and written Swedish from the 19th century and the present-day. We show that pronominal demonstratives can be attested in speakers born in different parts of Norway in the 19th century, and in Swedish texts from the same period. However, the pronominal forms do not seem to be used in precisely the same way in the two languages. In Swedish, han/hon ‘he/she’ do not seem to behave formally like demonstratives. Instead, we propose that they are syntactically reduced pronouns at the edge of the DP, above the position for demonstratives, and that they double features lower down in the noun phrase. In Norwegian, on the other hand, han/hun are used as demonstratives already in the 19th century, in the way described for present-day Norwegian by Johannessen (2008a, b).

scholarly journals ОККАЗИОНАЛЬНОЕ В СОВРЕМЕННОМ ЯЗЫКЕ: НОВЫЕ АСПЕКТЫ АНАЛИЗА

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kulzhanat Bulatbaeva ◽  
Gulnar Sarsikeeva ◽  
Kuanysh Aytzhanov
Keyword(s):  
Complex Sentence ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Статья посвящена окказиональным явлениям в лингвистике. Особое внимание уделено условиям проявления окказиональных значений - уровневым аспектам функционирования окказионализмов. Авторами установлено, что окказионализмы можно классифицировать по их функционированию в рамках разных единиц синтаксиса. Окказиональные сочетания впервые представлены в определенной классификации с целью системного рассмотрения их функционирования в рекламных текстах. Условиями проявления окказионального могут быть словосочетания, предикативные и полупредикативные сочетания слов, коррелирующие предикативные части сложного предложения, без анализа которых не будет ясно видна нестандартная семантика языковой единицы и соответственно суть этого явления. Также в работе выявлено, что семантическая параллель или семантическая противоположность служат средствами привлечения внимания читателей. В качестве иллюстративного материала использованы примеры из рекламных текстов и газетных статей.The article is devoted to the occasional phenomenon in linguistics. It pays special attention to the conditions of manifestations of occasional meanings, in other words, to the level aspects of the functioning of occasionalisms. The authors established that occasionalisms can be classified by their functioning within different syntactical units. The authors are the first to classify occasional combinations in order to systematically study their functioning in advertising texts. The conditions of occasional manifestation can be word combinations, predicative and semi-predicative combinations of words, even correlating predicative parts of a complex sentence. Without analyzing those conditions, it is impossible to determine the non-standard semantics of the language unit and, accordingly, the essence of this phenomenon. The authors also revealed that the semantic parallel or the semantic opposite attracts the attention of readers. They illustrate the work with the examples from advertising texts and newspaper articles.

‘Ces grandes dames, ça ne va pas souvent à l’église’: A corpus-based investigation of dislocation featuring co-referent clitic ça

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (03) ◽  
pp. 423-441
Author(s):  
Emily Linares
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Written Corpus

ABSTRACTAlthough previous research has documented dislocations in which a dislocated noun phrase (NP) occurs with the co-referent pronoun ça (e.g., Carlier, 1996; Jones, 1996), this study represents the first corpus-driven examination focused on this syntactic construction. In examining examples identified in both an oral and a written corpus, the investigation serves to nuance the association between dislocation and orality (McLaughlin, 2011). The research also interrogates the relationship between dislocations featuring co-referent clitic ça and genericity. The extent to which this construction more frequently signals a pejorative attitude towards certain groups of animate NPs than others is also explored. Finally, this study advances methodological considerations for research on rare syntactic forms.

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