Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages

Lier, Eva van

doi:10.1515/lingty-2016-0005

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“…It is a well-known observation that parts of speech differ cross-linguistically (Croft, 2005); e.g. in various language families, adjectives tend to behave like a sub-class of verbs (Dixon, 2004;Van Lier, 2016). As a corollary, many dictionary authors choose to gloss property words as if they were verbs, with such definitions as 'be small' (static reading), 'become small' (dynamic reading), or even 'to be or become small'.…”

Section: Acd (Austronesian) and Stedt (Sino-tibetan)mentioning

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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change

2023

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Welcome to the 4th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange'23) co-located with EMNLP 2023. LChange is held on December 6th, 2023, as a hybrid event with participation possible both virtually and on-site in Singapore.Characterizing the time-varying nature of language will have broad implications and applications in multiple fields including linguistics, artificial intelligence, digital humanities, computational cognitive and social sciences. In this workshop, we bring together the world's pioneers and experts in computational approaches to historical language change with a focus on digital text corpora. In doing so, this workshop carries out the triple goals of disseminating state-of-the-art research on diachronic modeling of language change, fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations, and exploring the fundamental theoretical and methodological challenges in this growing niche of computational linguistic research.In response to the call, we received 28 submissions. Each of them was carefully evaluated by at least two members of the Program Committee, whom we believed to be most appropriate for each paper. Based on the reviewers' feedback we accepted 17 full and short papers as oral or poster presentations. We had two distinguished keynote presentations: the first by Gemma Boleda (Research Professor in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) who presented a talk entitled "What does semantic change have to do with Hello Kitty? Referring as the source of change", and the second by Mario Giulianelli (a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich) with the talk "Neural language models for word usage representation and analysis". Finally, we invited five EMNLP'23 Findings papers to be presented as posters, which are not included in the workshop proceedings.To further support the community, we offered five student scholarships to cover registration fees. We also offered mentoring for four young researchers on their research topic in the field of language change, either during the workshop or virtually.We hope that you will find the workshop papers insightful and inspiring. We would like to thank the keynote speakers for their stimulating talks, the authors of all papers for their interesting contributions, and the members of the Program Committee for their insightful reviews. Our special thanks go to the emergency reviewers who stepped in to provide their expertise. We also express our gratitude to the EMNLP 2023 workshop chairs for their kind assistance during the organization process. Finally, our thanks go to our gold sponsor iguanodon.ai, as well as the research project "Towards Computational Lexical Semantic Change Detection" (Swedish Research Council, contract 2018-01184) and the research program "Change is Key!" (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, contract M21-0021).

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Section: Acd (Austronesian) and Stedt (Sino-tibetan)mentioning

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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change

2023

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“…It might be considered odd to include descriptors and actions in the same category, but in Hobongan, there is not a clear syntactic distinction between verbal elements and modifier elements; terms shift between and among syntactic functions, as has been noted for Austronesian languages(Van Lier 2016). Because this is primarily a semantic description, the apparent syntactic distinctions are backgrounded.…”

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Conceptualizing Measurement and Quantification in Hobongan: An Overview of the Lexicon and Uses

Perkins¹

2018

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In this survey of the Hobongan lexical items, I identify patterns in the Hobongan understanding of measurement and quantification. In Hobongan, there are many terms for measurements, usually some form of estimation. Hobongan has a four-based counting system, and those forms are used to estimate one is one or hardly any, and four is quite a lot and function as articles in sentences. Hobongan has also borrowed more counting terms and has the lexical items necessary for precise quantification, but those quantifications are used primarily within certain domains, such as determining what they should be paid for gold that has been mined or what should be paid in fines after legal judgments. Estimates of measurements can reference common objects, such as segments of bamboo or the height of a standing human. Perhaps the richest aspect of the system is that of measurement, in which terms that provide ways to estimate temperatures, magnitudes, and other amounts can indicate the ways in which the Hobongan make estimates from contextual information and apply the terms in use. In Hobongan, measurements in the form of estimates are primary and obligatory. Quantification with numbers is exclusively a type of symbolic and symbolized reasoning that must be combined with the estimate terms in order to be acceptable and functional.

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Categorial shift: foundations, extensions, and consequences

Mithun

2019

Language Sciences

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Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages

Cited by 11 publications

References 44 publications

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change

Conceptualizing Measurement and Quantification in Hobongan: An Overview of the Lexicon and Uses

Categorial shift: foundations, extensions, and consequences

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