Capturing Numerals and Pronouns at the Morphological Layer in the Prague Dependency Treebanks of Czech

The paper presents a novel and unified morphological description of numerals and pronouns, as compiled for the newest edition of the Prague Dependency Treebank (Prague Dependency Treebank – Consolidated 1.0) and its integral part the morphological dictionary MorfFlex. On the basis of considerable experience with real data annotation and the use of the morphological dictionary, particular changes were proposed. For both of the parts of speech a new set of subtypes was proposed, based mainly on the morphological criterion and its combination with semantic properties and other relevant features, such as definiteness in numerals and possessivity, reflexivity, and clitichood in pronouns. Each subtype has a specific value at the 2nd position of the morphological tag, which serves also as an indicator of the applicability of other tag categories.

Morphological Criterion for Distinguishing between Abstract and Concrete Nouns: An Experimental Approach

In this paper, the problem of using a morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract nouns and other lexico-grammatical categories of the Russian language was studied. The experimental data were obtained as part of the work on compiling an electronic semantic dictionary of Russian abstract nouns with the help of the methodology used to create a similar dictionary for the English language. To date, the dictionary has had 1000 entries, each provided with the abstractness/concreteness index number. During the study, the nouns with the highest degree of abstractness (from 3.5 to 5) were selected. Based on the Large Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by S.A. Kuznetsov and the Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by D.N. Ushakov, the plural forms of these nouns and their usage were analyzed. It was revealed that the plural forms of the nouns under consideration can be used in at least one meaning. It was also discovered that the morphological criterion for distinguishing between the lexico-grammatical categories of concreteness/abstractness is not stable and, therefore, turns out to be inapplicable to a number of words.

An attempt to assess the degree of urbanity of new towns in Poland based on the morphological criterion

In the years 1980—2018, the number of towns and cities in Poland increased from 803 to 930. However, the problem of the administrative procedure is the lack of clearly defined criteria of urbanity and the lack of measurable indicators that could be used to verify the settlements applying for the status of a city. This applies, in particular, to the measures identifying the character of the morphology of settlements. The main objective of this research is to propose a set of indicators based on generally available statistical data describing the morphology of settlements, which could be used in the administrative procedure of granting the city status. The proposed indicators were used to analyse the morphology of cities in Poland in order to verifying their suitability to describe quantified degree of urbanity. The focus was on cites, which received city status in the years 2000—2014, because these cities should formally meet the criteria adopted in the administrative procedure. Data for cities (for 2014) were taken from Local Data Bank of Statistics Poland. Analyses have shown that in the case of new cities proposed morphological indexes assume values indicating low or very low level of their urbanization.

Някои формообразувателни типове при глаголи от първо спрежение в българския книжовен език

Inflectional types within first conjugation in standard Bulgarian The article presents the modulation models in some first conjugation verbs in the Bulgarian language based on a certain set of classification characteristics and diagnostic forms. The inflection types within one of the nine classes in which the Bulgarian verbal vocabulary are distinguished according to a procedure which comprises three levels of categorization: 1) by a morphological criterion; 2) by types of morphological (regressive) changes encoded in word-forming or grammatical forms, and 3) by a normative criterion (presence of doublets). Also considered is the combinatorics of the grammatical morphs in the set of verb forms. The presentation of formal types is done in terms of normative grammar, taking into account the dynamism of the norm. The model aims to cover the entire verbal vocabulary by uniting different lexical-grammatical classifications of the Bulgarian verbs. Typy fleksyjne w ramach pierwszej koniugacji w literackim języku bułgarskim W artykule przedstawiono propozycję zmodyfikowania klasyfikacji niektórych czasowników pierwszej koniugacji w języku bułgarskim w oparciu o pewien zestaw cech klasyfikacyjnych i form diagnostycznych. Procedura, według której bułgarskie czasowniki jednej z dziewięciu klas formalnych podzielone zostają na typy fleksyjne, składa się z trzech poziomów kategoryzacji: 1) według kryterium morfologicznego, 2) według rodzajów zmian morfologicznych (regresywnych) zakodowanych w formach słowotwórczych lub gramatycznych, 3) według kryterium normatywnego (obecność dubletów). Uwzględniana jest również kombinatoryka morfów w zbiorze form czasownika. Prezentacja cech formalnych odbywa się w gramatyce normatywnej przy uwzględnieniu dynamiki normy. Model ma na celu opracowanie wszystkich czasowników bułgarskich poprzez kombinację różnych kryteriów leksykalno-gramatycznych klasyfikacji.

Становлення теорії синтаксичного зв’язку в українському мовознавстві (ХVІІ – початок ХХ ст.)

The formation of the syntactic connection theory in the Ukrainian linguistics (17th – early 20th century)In Ukrainian linguistics, there are no historiographical papers offering an adequate description of the origin and development of the syntactic connection theory. Elsewhere, I have already proposed a periodization of the research on syntactic connections from the time of the appearance of first Slavic grammars until today, which distinguishes five historical stages. The purpose of this analysis is to characterize particularly the first three periods of the development of research on syntactic connections – from the 17th century until the 1930s. The first stage (17th–18th centuries) is the beginning of the syntactic connection theory. The syntactic chapters in the grammars of this period deal with studying the ability of some parts of speech to combine with other words. The second stage (19th century) is the period of approval of terminology and formation of the ground for deepening the syntactic connection theory. All scholars of the period defined two possible realizations of the syntactic connection – agreement and government. The third stage (the beginning of the 20th century until the 1930s) was the period in which the morphological criterion prevailed. The typical symptom of this observed in the period is consideration of syntactic connections between pairs of words in isolation from the rest of the sentence components. The crucial research perspective opened up by the study is to explain in detail the development of research on syntactic connections from the 1940s until today. Tworzenie się teorii związku składniowego w językoznawstwie ukraińskim (XVII – początek XX wieku)W językoznawstwie ukraińskim brak jak dotąd historiograficznych studiów adekwatnie opisujących początki i rozwój teorii związków składniowych. W jednej z poprzednich prac zaproponowałam periodyzację badań nad związkami składniowymi od czasu ukazania się pierwszych gramatyk słowiańskich aż po dziś, wyróżniając w niej pięć etapów historycznych. Celem tej analizy jest scharakteryzowanie zwłaszcza trzech pierwszych etapów rozwoju teorii związków składniowych – od XVII wieku do lat 30. XX wieku. Pierwszy etap (XVII–XVIII wiek) wyznacza początki teorii związków składniowych. Poświęcone składni rozdziały gramatyk tego okresu badają cechy niektórych części mowy pozwalające im na łączenie się z innymi wyrazami. Drugi etap (XIX wiek) to okres uzgadniania terminologii i tworzenia podwalin pod pogłębioną teorię związków składniowych. Uczeni powszechnie wyróżniają wówczas dwa możliwe typy związków składniowych: związek zgody i rządu. Trzeci etap (od początku do lat 30. XX wieku) był okresem, w którym zapanowało kryterium morfologiczne. Typowym tego objawem, jaki można zaobserwować w tym okresie, jest rozpatrywanie związków składniowych pomiędzy parami wyrazów w oderwaniu od pozostałych części zdania. Ważną perspektywą badawczą, jaka otwiera się w rezultacie przeprowadzonych badań, jest szczegółowy opis rozwoju badań nad związkami składniowymi od lat 40. XX wieku po dzień dzisiejszy.

За един нов подход при описанието на прилагателните имена в българския език (с оглед на разработването на нормативна граматика)

On a new approach in describing adjectives in Bulgarian (with the ontext of the development of a normative grammar) The article presents a new approach in the description of adjectives in Bulgarian, one that is based on strict differentiation between form and semantics by applying a purely morphological criterion. The relevant features of the adjectives are grouped in separate inflection types based on the presence of ending or lack thereof, the lexeme’s ending combinations, the presence of morphonological (including stress) changes (alterations) in inflection, as well as on the presence of doublet forms. The formation of inflectional types according to the above specified relevant features is illustrated with examples, followed by a proposal of changes to the traditional classification of the parts of speech. O pewnym nowym podejściu w opisie przymiotników w języku bułgarskim (w kontekście opracowania gramatyki normatywnej) Artykuł przedstawia nowe podejście do opisu przymiotników w języku bułgarskim, oparte na wyraźnym rozróżnieniu formy i znaczenia poprzez zastosowanie wyłącznie kryterium morfologicznego. Relewantne cechy przymiotników są pogrupowane w typy fleksyjne na podstawie obecności lub braku końcówki, kombinatoryki końcówek w leksemie, występowania zmian morfonologicznych (w tym akcentu), alternacji we fleksji, oraz form obocznych. Formowanie typów fleksyjnych zgodnie z wyżej wymienionymi cechami dystynktywnymi zilustrowano przykładami, a następnie zaproponowano zmiany w tradycyjnej klasyfikacji części mowy.

Recent anomalous deformation of the ground surface in fault zones: shear or tensile faulting?

Various definitions of the kinematic types of faults are reviewed. The degree of symmetry in the distribution of anomalous displacements of the ground surface is proposed as a morphological criterion for identifying the types of faults based on geodetic observations. Local anomalies of vertical displacements identified by geodetic observations in the fault zones are analysed by types. It is revealed that 88 % of the analysed anomalies show local symmetrical subsidence of the ground surface near the faults. Morphologically, these anomalies correspond to the subvertical tensile faults. Mechanisms of three types (block, dislocation, and parametric) are discussed considering the formation of the observed displacements in the zones of activation of the tensile faults. A comparison of the calculated and observed displacements of the ground surface shows that the best consistency between the theory and the observations is achieved using the model of local parametric excitation of deformation under quasi-static regional loads and the theory of strain nuclei (soft inclusions).

A typological analysis of calque in Romanian maritime terminology

The linguistic contact between French and Romanian had major effects on the formation of the Romanian maritime terminology. There are three major ways in which this linguistic influence took place: the loan, the calque (loan translation) and the translation. The purpose of the present paper is to draw a typology of calque, taking as reference the classification and the theory expressed by the Romanian linguist Theodor Hristea. Our analysis will cover only certain types of calques because the structure of the Romanian maritime terminology is necessarily limited to some recurrent categories, such as: lexical calque, semantic calque, phraseological calque (idiomatic and non-idiomatic) and grammatical calque. It appears that most of the linguistic calques existing in the Romanian maritime vocabulary are lexical in nature. Moreover, the semantic calque has provided us with one of the richest sources of linguistic material, especially since the calque also deals with the cases of metaphorization, metonymy, synecdoche, and manifests itself in parallel with the passage from one register to another of a maritime term. In the complex classification of the non-idiomatic phraseological calques, we will use the morphological criterion to analyse the maritime phraseological units according to the parts of speech they comprise. Thus, we can have constructions following the patterns: noun + noun (Nominative), noun + noun (Genitive), noun + preposition + noun, noun + adjective, adjective + noun, etc.

Morphological diversity of Bacillus subtilis

<p><em>Bacillus subtilis</em> is the most studied bacterium from genus <em>Bacillus</em> and this microorganism is widespread in nature. <em>B. subtilis</em> is often found in fresh and seawater, in the rhizosphere, in the soil (especially contaminated with feces and manure). The large variety of strains are available in collections of microorganisms, but strains isolated from the rhizosphere of various plants are particularly interesting for science and practical use. At the same time, the morphological criterion (the form and other features of the colonies) is the main one in the identification of <em>B. subtilis</em> at the first stages of the study and allows to refuse of extraneous strains before use more expensive methods and materials. The article presents the description of the morphological diversity of <em>B. subtilis</em> strains that are used in agriculture. Typical R–colonies are characteristic of bacteria <em>B. subtilis</em>, and we established 2 morphologically diverse forms of these colonies in the studied strains.</p><p> </p>