9.1770, Sum: Morphosyntactic Features

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-1770. Fri Dec 11 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.1770, Sum: Morphosyntactic Features

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Date:  Tue, 08 Dec 1998 10:59 -0500 (EST)
From:  Mike_Maxwell at sil.org
Subject:  Another summary: Morphosyntactic Features

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Date:  Tue, 08 Dec 1998 10:59 -0500 (EST)
From:  Mike_Maxwell at sil.org
Subject:  Another summary: Morphosyntactic Features

In LINGUIST List 9.1599 and 9.1644, I summarized the responses I had
received concerning research into possible universals in
morphosyntactic features (similar to the research that has been done
on universals in phonetic features).

Since the last summary, a few more responses have come in, which I
summarize below.  Thanks to Brian Ulicny (bulicny at lhs.com), Priscilla
McCoy (pmccoy at socrates.berkeley.edu), and Joerg Keller
(Joerg.Keller at sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de).

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For a more applied, less theoretical perspective...
The EAGLES (Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering
Standards, an initiative of the European Commission (EC)... [has]
tried to adopt a system of morphosyntactic features that would cover
all of the European languages.  The homepage for the project is:

http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/home.html

Two documents of particular interest would be:

Recommendations for the morphosyntactic  annotation of corpora
http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/annotate/annotate.html
ftp://ftp.ilc.pi.cnr.it/pub/eagles/corpora/annotate.ps.gz

Synopsis and comparison of morphosyntactic  phenomena encoded in lexicons
and corpora.
 A common proposal and applications  to european languages.
http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/morphsyn/morphsyn.html
ftp://ftp.ilc.pi.cnr.it/pub/eagles/lexicons/morphsyn.ps.gz

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Victor Friedman "Grammatical Categories of the Macedonian Indicative."

Works on languages of the Caucasus: K. Tuite, D. Holisky,
A. Harris, V. Friedman, H Aronson.

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Work by Jackendoff on the mapping of spatial features into morphosyntax, and
Joerg Keller's webpage at http://linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/dissfly.cgi?keller on
this same topic.  Joerg also suggested that work on sign languages might be
important to establishing the universality of proposed features.

                            Mike Maxwell
                            Mike_Maxwell at sil.org
                            Summer Institute of Linguistics

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