Linguistics Weekly Newsletter - Friday, February 27, 2015

Linguistics newsletter

Top new questions this week: The French of Shakespeare -- why does it seem so modern? In Henry V, Shakesperean English is difficult to understand (even for modern native English speakers -- at least for me) without a good amount of help. However, there are a few scenes conducted ... historical-linguistics french   asked by hunter 6 votes answered by user66554 5 votes Where can I find a good primer of dependency grammar? I found a good phrase structure grammar primer, namely "Beginning Syntax" by Thomas, which has been recommended by more than one person on this exchange. However, when I looked for any similarly ... reference-request dependency-grammar   asked by James Grossmann 4 votes answered by Tim Osborne 3 votes What is the difference between coreference resolution and anaphora resolution? Is there any difference between coreference resolution and anaphora resolution? More generally, what is the difference between coreferences and anaphoras? terminology discourse-analysis anaphora   asked by user48665 3 votes answered by Tim Osborne 2 votes Can Wernicke's aphasia lead to grammar deterioration? Speech often (always?) deteriorates for people with post-lingual deafness. This presumably occurs because of insufficient auditory feedback. Given that people with Wernicke's aphasia cannot ... neurolinguistics aphasiology   asked by fenceop 3 votes Is there a name for a word which can take both genders? For languages with two genders, is there a name for a noun (or pronoun, adjective, etc) which can be of either gender? This seems to be quite common for names of professions, for instance, in Latin ... gender natural-gender   asked by Flimzy 3 votes answered by fdb 3 votes Has grammatical gender ever been observed to emerge in a language that previously had none? Does a language exist whose older forms are known to have lacked the category of grammatical gender, and which proceeded to evolve one (perhaps from a non-gender-based system of noun classes)? Are ... historical-linguistics nouns gender   asked by Nikolay Ershov 2 votes What is the name for this type of diagram? When studying an agglutinative language, one sometimes encounters the following type of helpful diagram, which labels a sentence according to the grammatical function of each constitutive element. ... terminology   asked by Milchgesicht 2 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Any difference between natural and programming languages? First of all, as a native German speaker, I apologise for my incorrect use of the English language. After thinking about some different languages and wandering astray on this exact Stack Exchange, I ... philosophy-of-language computer-science   asked by ThreeFx 1 vote answered by Dominik Lukes 6 votes Can a vowel and a consonant be allophones of the same phoneme? Are there languages where a vowel and a consonant can be allophones of the same phoneme? phonology phonetics phonemes allophones   asked by Danylo Mysak 7 votes answered by musicallinguist 11 votes Can you answer these? What's the real need for an end-symbol in n-gram models? There's a footnote in Jurafsky & Martin (2008, p.89) pointing out that, without an end-symbol, an n-gram model would not be "a true probability distribution". Even after seeking the paper they've ... nlp n-grams   asked by mcrisc 2 votes Is there a resource where I can see the logical form of an English sentence? There are plenty of resources to generate trees from natural language, but none to generate logical forms. Or maybe you know of some great resources to those ends? phrase-structure   asked by Teusz 1 vote What is the type of adjective that denotes capability? I have encountered a number of adjectives while programming that all have the same use case of describing capabilities of a noun. "Clonable", "serializable", "runnable", "hashable", "immutable", ... english adjectives   asked by Roger 1 vote

Subscribe to more Stack Exchange newsletters Unsubscribe from this newsletter or change your email preferences by visiting your subscriptions page on stackexchange.com. Questions? Comments? Let us know on our feedback site. If you no longer want to receive mail from Stack Exchange, unsubscribe from all stackexchange.com emails. Stack Exchange, Inc. 110 William St, 28th Floor, NY NY 10038 <3