LINGUIST List 13.1667

Wed Jun 12 2002

Qs: Frequency Constructions, Hyphenation

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  • Myroslava Dzikovska, Syntax and semantics of frequency constructions
  • geilfuss, Hyphenation rules

    Message 1: Syntax and semantics of frequency constructions

     Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:51:09 -0400
    From: Myroslava Dzikovska <myroscs.rochester.edu>
    Subject: Syntax and semantics of frequency constructions


    Dear colleagues,

    I'm working on parsing of frequency constructions like "take aspirin twice a day" or "100 mg a day is a sufficient dose". Among other things, I am having trouble figuring out what "a day" attaches to in these cases, and how the semantic representations for these would look like. If you have suggestions and references to other work done on syntax and semantics of frequency expressions, particularly in computationally oriented frameworks, I would greatly appreciate the information.

    Thanks,

    Myrosia

    Myroslava Dzikovska myroscs.rochester.edu http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/myros/

    Message 2: Hyphenation rules

     Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:53:24 +0200
    From: geilfuss <geilfussrz.uni-leipzig.de>
    Subject: Hyphenation rules


    One of the current topics of my research is hyphenation. Since written language is one of the most neglected aspects of linguistic study and hyphenation is only a minor aspect of written language, next to nothing about hyphenation is found in almost all detailed studies devoted to writing systems (one of the exceptions is Carney 1994). In European languages, hyphenation seems--as far as I know-- to be based on syllables and/or morphemes, but I have not been able to find any serious information about hyphenation in non-European languages (for instance, in the volume of Peter T. Daniels and William Bright on the world's writing systems, one finds no remarks on hyphenation at all). In order to search for some substantial cross-linguistic generalisations, I therefore seek informations of any kind about hyphenation rules in non-European languages.

    Thanks, Jochen Geilfuss-Wolfgang University of Leipzig Germany