Grammaticalization Paths of Predicative Possession in Sanskrit

Friday November 8, 2013, at 14:15 – 16:00 (SH: AF (Seminarrom F (212), Sydneshaugen skole))

Possession is an abstract and multifaceted domain of human conceptualization. Predicative possessive expressions found across the languages of the world are often derived from constructions, called in the literature ‘source schemas’, borrowed from other, more concrete, conceptual domains.

In Vedic […]

Representasjon av fleirordsuttrykk i leksikalske og terminologiske ressursar

Fredag 1. november, 2013, 14:15 – 16:00 (SH: AF (Seminarrom F (212), Sydneshaugen skole))

Fleirordsuttrykk er språklege einingar som “til sjuande og sist” og “å kaste inn handkleet”, som har særeigne eigenskaper ein ikkje utan vidare kan utleie på grunnlag av enkeltorda. Leksikalske og syntaktiske begrensingar på bruken av fleirordsuttrykk gjer dei problematiske blant anna […]

Need grammar?

“There was a point in the 1960s when the [British] Government said that schoolchildren didn’t need to learn any grammar as it inhibits their creativity. Now, that’s changing rapidly.” Read more.

Language Autobiographies in Sardinia

Friday October 18, 2013 at 14: 15 – 16:00 (HF: 217)

My presentation is about a research project regarding the relationship between Italian, Sardinian and other languages in Sardinia. The analysis is based on language (auto)biographies I’ve recently collected, asking people to tell their life stories with the main focus being on their relationship with […]

Friday Seminar: A Distinction between Parse Trees and Constituent Trees in “Deep” Grammar Implementations

September 06, 2013 at 14:15 – 16:00 in HF:217

In this talk I will present a grammar design which makes a distinction between parse trees and constituent trees. While a parse tree simply is the incremental combination of words, one by one, a constituent tree is a regular representation of the constituent structure of a […]

CLARINO gets DSpace

August 23, 2013 at 9:15 in HF:264

In the context of the European CLARIN initiative, a language infrastructure network is being constructed, consisting of centers offering access to language data, tools and services. The LINDAT center in the Czech Republic is based on a DSpace repository with suitable extensions to function in CLARIN. It has […]

It’s time

Cho Seong-Eun, a master’s student in computational linguistics at the University of Bergen, will present his work in his master’s thesis. His project was entitled Automatic Detection of Conceptual Time Metaphors. This presentation will be held on May 29, 2013 (for further information, see this term’s seminars).