The aim of this work is to describe the variation in the domain of noun determination in 20th- and 21st-century Portuguese. The main focus lies on the use of bare nouns, especially in Brazilian Portuguese, that shows a ...
1855 kam der Forscher Heinrich Barth von einer mehrjährigen Reise durch Westafrika zurück. Er brachte zwei junge Afrikaner nach Deutschland und England mit, die sein Kollege Adolf Overbeck um 1852 in Kukawa aus der Sklaverei ...
Two acceptability judgment experiments are presented which investigate extraposition of PPs out of NP in German. The experiments are concerned with the weight of the extraposed constituent and the question of how to define ...
Navigation – the ability to reach targets which are no visible from the current position - depends on the correct recall of the desired target and the environment between one's current position and this target. The content ...
This thesis investigates the capacities of adaptive methods for word prediction. We present and evaluate several adaptation methods: First, we consider strategies enabling to adapt to the lexical and syntactic preferences ...
Schoenmakers, Gert-Jan; de Swart, Peter(2019-07-31)
This paper addresses the role of the adverb in Dutch direct object scrambling constructions. We report four experiments in which we investigate whether the structural position and the scope sensitivity of the adverb affect ...