Abstract Taylor (2014) observes that some of the factual claims made in Allen (1980), the most thorough examination of free relatives in Old English to date, are not entirely correct. Taylor presents some examples that Allen’s analysis of Old English free relatives doe...

An aspect of corpus compilation that poses a particular challenge is the question of how to transcribe orthographically units that are not part of any standardised vocabulary. Among the problematic categories we find voiced pauses, minimal response signals, interjection...

Abstract Old and Early Middle English did not yet have modal sentential adverbs of low probability. Old Norse did not have such words, either. From the 13th century onwards first epistemic prepositional phrases of Anglo-Norman origin functioning as modal adverbials cons...

Abstract This paper discusses morphological borrowing from American-English to Dutch. Three processes of non-morphemic word formation are studied: embellished clipping (Afro from African), libfixing (extracting segments from opaque wordforms such -topia from utopia and ...

With the fast growth of social networks, sentiment analysis on the web has been a popular research topic. Recently, word embedding-based sentiment analysis methods have reached outstanding performance compared to the traditional methods. However, word embeddings always...

A common step in the area of speech emotion recognition is to obtain ground-truth labels describing the emotional content of a sentence. The underlying emotion of a given recording is usually unknown, so perceptual evaluations are conducted to annotate its perceived emo...

Abstract This paper focuses on two main issues regarding syntactic alternations and their development over time. On the one hand, it discusses the diachronic implications of alternations as involving multiple (rather than binary) choices. On the other hand, it shows tha...

Building systems with capability of natural language understanding (NLU) has been one of the oldest areas of AI. An essential component of NLU is to detect logical succession of events contained in a text. The task of sentence ordering is proposed to learn succession of...

Abstract This empirical study focuses on the diachrony of adnominal genitives of proper names in (Early) New High German (17th to 19th centuries), e.g., Carls Haus vs. das Haus Carls ‘Carl’s house’. Starting from the observation that word order variation exists within t...

Investigation of codependent relationship between the work-author-commanditaire and its implications circumscribed to the „new order“, imposed by the grid of values established by the political-cultural context during the communist totalitarian regime.