Inflection In Languages Research Articles

Inflexive Marker and Morphophonological Processes in the Lamalera Dialect of Lamaholot Language (LDLL)

Inflection is a universal linguistic phenomenon. The phenomenon of inflection occurs in every language according to each language system. The language system of each language greatly determines the peculiarities of the language inflection. Inflection in a language that is agglutinative is different from that in a language that has a synthetic, tonal and isolating system. The treatment of each language is different for this case of inflection. Lamalera Dialect of Lamaholot Language (LDLL) also shows inflection. Inflection in LDLL is different from inflection in other languages ​​because of the language system, especially the LDLL sound system. LDLL is not characterized by agglutinative, nor synthetic, tonal nor isolating morphology. What is the strategy for inflection in LDLL? The result of the study shows that in LDLL, inflection is expressed clitically on the verb. These clitics are cross-referenced by the verbs. There are two types of cross-reference clitics, namely cross-referencing proclitics and enclitics. Proclitic cross-referencing applies to both transitive and intransitive root verbs. This form of cross-referencing pronouns is both proclitic and enclitic, and morphophonological changes actually occur. This process cannot be avoided because morphophonological processes actually occur due to merging of the morpheme with another morpheme. In this case the clitic is considered as bound morpheme.

Movement and deletion after syntax: Licensing by inflection reconsidered

AbstractIn this paper we study the interaction between ellipsis and inflectional morphology and put forward a generalization about ellipsis blocking the application of some morphological operations. Working in the Distributed Morphology framework, we will demonstrate this generalization in the realm ofNPellipsis. We will show thatNPellipsis can lead to stranded affix filter violations, and that there are various strategies languages can resort to in order to resolve problems of convergence that stranded affixes cause at thePFinterface. The resolution of the stranded affix filter configuration is responsible for the well‐known observation that heads precedingNPellipsis sites need to show overt inflection in languages that inflect these heads (Lobeck 1995).

A model of language inflection graphs

Inflection graphs are highly complex networks representing relationships between inflectional forms of words in human languages. For so-called synthetic languages, such as Latin or Polish, they have particularly interesting structure due to the abundance of inflectional forms. We construct the simplest form of inflection graphs, namely a bipartite graph in which one group of vertices corresponds to dictionary headwords and the other group to inflected forms encountered in a given text. We, then, study projection of this graph on the set of headwords. The projection decomposes into a large number of connected components, to be called word groups. Distribution of sizes of word group exhibits some remarkable properties, resembling cluster distribution in a lattice percolation near the critical point. We propose a simple model which produces graphs of this type, reproducing the desired component distribution and other topological features.

New Talking Avatars on the MSVU Library Website

Two talking avatars - Sarah and Suzie SitePal - were recently added to the MSVU Library website. By adding the avatars to the site, the Library hopes to make the site more interactive and fun for new and returning students. The avatars are used to welcome students to the Library, to highlight Library resources and services, and to relay information about Library events. The SitePal software was installed by Denyse Rodrigues, and the avatars were designed and scripted by myself, the Library's new term librarian responsible for public services. SitePal is a subscription internet service that allows users to create and customize talking avatars to add to websites. For a monthly fee, users can choose from a diverse selection of male and female avatars, can add different backgrounds, accessories, clothing, and can choose from a wide selection of players and pre-recorded voices. SitePal also allows you to record your own voice to add to the avatar. I highly recommend taking advantage of this feature because it adds a more life-like quality to the avatar. The SitePal supplied voices sound robotic and monotone and do not allow for natural inflections in language. The SitePal design process is user-friendly and consists of a series of visual menus that you use to design your avatar by simply picking and clicking on the many styles and accessories offered. The avatars can also be updated easily, as often as you like, by logging in to your account on the SitePal website and making the necessary changes. Users have the option of creating multiple avatars at the same time, so library staff can add new life to their library website by changing the avatars periodically. The number of avatars you can create depends upon the type of account you subscribe to: Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum. The designer also has control over the avatar placement on the site, and sound options. I set it up so Sarah and Suzie would not play automatically and they are equipped with a play, pause and mute button. Students control the volume setting and can choose to play the avatars at their convenience. Embedding the avatar into your library website is also a relatively stress-free process. I tend to break out in hives at the prospect of working with code, but embedding the avatar into the MSVU Library website was as simple as cutting and pasting the code generated by the SitePal website into our website code. I did encounter a minor set-back during the launch of the avatars in September. The security features installed on the student computers in the library and in the computer labs prevented the avatars from appearing on the site because they need to be downloaded from the SitePal server and the computers were prevented from accessing the information. …

Events in Space

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