Overabundance is defined as the situation in which two (or more) inflectional forms are
available to realize the same cell in an inflectional paradigm. The paper presents a general …

This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of phonological weight to date,
bringing together traditional notions of categorical, rime-based weight and new …

Prosodic end-weight refers to the well-documented tendency of prosodically heavier
constituents to be preferred at the ends of domains when other factors (eg semantics …

It has been extensively observed that languages minimise the distance between two related
words. Dependency length minimisation effects are explained as a means to reduce …

Studies on constituent ordering have pointed out the tendency to post-pose heavy
constituents. However, head-nal languages seem to display the mirror-image tendency. In …

La présente thèse est consacrée à l'étude de la dérivation par suffixation d'adjectifs à partir
de noms en français. Nous nous appuyons sur un lexique d'environ 15~ 000 adjectifs, dont …

Evaluative adjectives have often been claimed to manifest a strong, and even exclusive,
preference for the nonrestrictive reading (henceforth the 'nonrestrictive bias' of evaluative …

VerbNet is an English lexical resource for verbs that has proven useful for English NLP due
to its high coverage and coherent classification. Such a resource doesn't exist for other …

Aquesta tesi investiga fenòmens d'escalaritat en l'àmbit nominal a través d'un subgrup
d'adjectius adverbials prenominals en espanyol, els adjectius de veracitat (AV; …

A major goal of the quantitative study of syntax has been to identify factors that have
predictive power on speaker choices in the face of word-order or valence alternations (eg …