Bilingualism and the status of the Russian language in Ukraine.

Friday March 21, 2014 at 14:15 – 16:00 (HF: 217)

Marta Szytmaniuk (Gdansk, Poland)

The aim of the lecture is to present the problem of bilingualism and status of the Russian language in Ukraine in the turn of 20th and 21st century. First of all, I would like to focus on specific historical conditioning of […]

Språkforskningsinfrastrukturer: en statusrapport

Fredag 7. mars 2014, 14:14–15:45

Koenraad De Smedt, forskergruppe LaMoRe (Language Models and Resources), UiB

Siden CLARIN ble satt på ESFRI-veikartet i 2006 har infrastruktur for språkforskning vært en aktuell målsetning i Europa, også i Norge. CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) har etter hvert blitt til en ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) der […]

German nominal compounds in Statistical Machine Translation tasks into Spanish

Friday February 28, 2014 at 14:15 – 16:00 (HF: 217)

Compounds in Germanic languages such as German or Norwegian pose a challenge for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) Applications as they can be coined on-the-fly and therefore need to be detected, disambiguated and processed successfully along with the other words in a text being processed […]

LFG parse disambiguation for Wolof

Friday February 14, 2014 at 14:15 – 16:00 (HF: 217)

In this presentation, I will discuss ambiguity issues arisen during the design and implementation of a computational large-scale LFG grammar for Wolof (Niger-Congo language mainly spoken in Senegal, ca. 10 millions speakers). The LFG grammar has been developed as part of my PhD project which […]

Non-canonical case marking and modality: The case of the Indo-European “gerundive + dative” construction

Friday January 24, 2013 at 14:15 – 16:00 (HF: 217)

In this presentation, I analyze gerundives in combination with the so-called “dative of agent” in six different Indo-European languages, namely Sanskrit, Avestan, Ancient Greek, Latin, Tocharian, and Lithuanian. Consider the following examples from Ancient Greek and Latin:

 

hēmîn … pánta poiētéa Ancient Greek

The Story of ‘Woe’

Friday January 17, 2013 at 14:15 – 16:00 (HF: 217)

In contrast to the received consensus in the historical-comparative linguistic community, we argue that syntactic reconstruction is both a plausible and a feasible enterprise. We illustrate this with an investigation of the syntactic behavior of *wai ‘woe’ across five subbranches of Indo-European, i.e. Indo-Iranian, Italic, […]

Fredagsseminar: Silje Ragnhildstveit

Fredag 10. januar, 2014, 14:15 – 16:00 (HF-bygget 217)

Her presenteres resultater fra pilotstudien til mitt pågående ph.d.-prosjekt om genuskongruens og morsmålspåvirkning (transfer) i norsk innlærerspråk. For å avdekke transfer, sammenligner jeg språkbruken til innlærere med morsmål (S1) som er ulike når det gjelder grammatisk genus og kongruens. Hovedhypotesen er at innlærere som har et […]