Human language is based on grammatical rules,,,. Cultural evolution allows these rules to
change over time. Rules compete with each other: as new rules rise to prominence, old ones …

A word‐by‐word human sentence processing complexity metric is presented. This metric
formalizes the intuition that comprehenders have more trouble on words contributing larger …

We study the selection of transfer languages for different Natural Language Processing
tasks, specifically sentiment analysis, named entity recognition and dependency parsing. In …

A novel view of the syntax and semantics of quantifier scope that argues for a" combinatory"
theory of natural language syntax. In Taking Scope, Mark Steedman considers the syntax …

While research in the 'principles and parameters' tradition can be regarded as attributing as
much as possible to universal grammar (UG) in order to understand how language …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

Generating Copies: An investigation into structural identity in language and grammar Page 1
University of California Los Angeles Generating Copies: An investigation into structural identity …

Minimalist grammars (MGs) and multiple context‐free grammars (MCFGs) are weakly
equivalent in the sense that they define the same languages, a large mildly context …

We study the selection of transfer languages for automatic abusive language detection.
Instead of preparing a dataset for every language, we demonstrate the effectiveness of cross …

This dissertation explores the relation between the notion of subjecthood and syntactic
ergativity through the lens of West Circassian (or Adyghe; of the Northwest Caucasian …