In sum, this dissertation develops faster and more efficient computational algorithms for anaphora resolution, in which category combinatorics determines the actions. In those algorithms, various kinds of anaphoric expressions ...

This dissertation proposes a unification-based formalism to provide a common basis for a computational realization of different linguistic theories, GPSG, HPSG, and LFG in particular, both as a means of theory testing and ...

It is shown that in order to adequately describe the facts of negation in Korean, the pragmatics must be considered along with the grammar.

Lama is a Gur language spoken in the districts of Keran and Doufelgou of Togo. Other than earlier research by A. Prost (1964b), the field of linguistics has not given much attention to Lama. More recently, though, dissertations ...

The dissertation analyses the complex Case system of Urdu within the framework of Government and Binding (GB) theory. It concentrates both on the word order and the phrase structure order of the language and on the assignment ...