Predicting grammatical gender in Nakh languages: Three methods compared

JW Schreur, M Allassonnière-Tang, K Bellamy… - Linguistic Typology at …, 2022 - hal.science
The Nakh languages Chechen and Tsova-Tush each have a five-valued gender system:
masculine, feminine, and three" neuter" genders named for their singular agreement forms …

[PDF][PDF] Predicting grammatical gender in Nakh languages

JW Schreur, M Allassonnière-Tang, K Bellamy… - 55th Annual Meeting of …, 2022 - hal.science
Means of identifying and tracking referents in discourse (Contini-Morava & Kilarski, 2013) All
nouns are assigned a gender, which is formally reflected in agreement markers in the clause …

Predicting and explaining french grammatical gender

S Sahai, D Sharma - Proceedings of the Third Workshop on …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Grammatical gender may be determined by semantics, orthography, phonology, or could
even be arbitrary. Identifying patterns in the factors that govern noun genders can be useful …

Cross-lingual embeddings reveal universal and lineage-specific patterns in grammatical gender assignment

H Veeman, M Allassonnière-Tang… - CoNLL 2020: 24th …, 2020 - diva-portal.org
Grammatical gender is assigned to nouns differently in different languages. Are all factors
that influence gender assignment idiosyncratic to languages or are there any that are …

Testing semantic dominance in Mian gender: Three machine learning models

M Allassonnière-Tang, D Brown, S Fedden - Oceanic Linguistics, 2021 - muse.jhu.edu
Abstract The Trans-New Guinea language Mian has a four-valued gender system that has
been analyzed in detail as semantic. This means that the principles of gender assignment …

[PDF][PDF] Code-switching in Kakheti: Gender assignment in mixed Batsbi-Georgian nominal constructions

K Bellamy, JW Schreur - BOOK OF ABSTRACTS, 2019 - sfb1102.uni-saarland.de
In this paper we investigate how Batsbi-Georgian bilinguals assign gender to Georgian
nouns appearing in otherwise Batsbi utterances. We use data from production and …

Word embedding and neural network on grammatical gender--A case study of Swedish

M Allassonnière-Tang, A Basirat - arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14222, 2020 - arxiv.org
We analyze the information provided by the word embeddings about the grammatical
gender in Swedish. We wish that this paper may serve as one of the bridges to connect the …

Measuring the similarity of grammatical gender systems by comparing partitions

AD McCarthy, A Williams, S Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
A grammatical gender system divides a lexicon into a small number of relatively fixed
grammatical categories. How similar are these gender systems across languages? To …

An empirical study on the contribution of formal and semantic features to the grammatical gender of nouns

A Basirat, M Allassonnière-Tang… - Linguistics Vanguard, 2021 - degruyter.com
This study conducts an experimental evaluation of two hypotheses about the contributions of
formal and semantic features to the grammatical gender assignment of nouns. One of the …

When semantics and phonology collide: Gender assignment in mixed Tsova-Tush–Georgian nominal constructions

K Bellamy, J Wichers Schreur - International Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This paper investigates the gender
assignment strategies employed when genderless Georgian nouns are inserted into …