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A Germanic language, which originated from England, and is considered the leading language in international communication. For non-linguistic questions about the English language, visit one of our sister sites English Language & Usage or English Language Learners.
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Does English have genuine literary conversation without the use of Latin and Greek words?
As an example how such an English looks like, try the essay Uncleftish Beholding by Poul Andersen that is written in a special kind of English without borrowings from Latin, French, and Greek. …
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Biggest freely available English corpus?
Can't beat the Global Web-Based English Corpus proposed by robert---but here are is another big one:
British national corpus (BNC) http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/ 100 mio words
A Wikipedia dump is also …
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Specific English word classification
For English, the closed classes are articles and determiners, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and particles (words like "yes", "no", "not"). …
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Correcting the names in NLP
The errors you describe are typically for scanned text and are introduced by the imperfections of Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
Search for "OCR correction" to get an overview of techniques av …
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Morphophonology of changing adjectives to nouns
It isn't just the insertion of an /s/, it is the change of /t/ to /s/. This change is conditioned by the preceding sound(s); it does not happen for /st/, and it happens for /Vt/ (where V is an arbitra …
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Why don't certain antonym pairs get rearranged often?
This is a good demonstration of conventionalisation in natural language. The conventionalisation goes so far, the even the order of the antonyms tend to be fixed, as in black and white or good and evi …
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Where do I find alternative categorizations/groupings of English words
An application of NSM is Minimal English (briefly described in the Wikipedia article quoted above). …
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Einbilden vs. Imagine
No. The Latin prefix is in- and before a vowel, it remains unchanged, giving *in-ago > inigo. But this is a verb, and not a noun, and there is no way to derive the noun imago from that verb.
in- becom …
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Conversational English corpus for download
Here you can find the Saarbrücken Corpus of Spoken English (SCoSE):
http://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/engling/scose.html …
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Do we have a taxonomy other than part of speech?
Another kind of resource of interest is a wordnet: It shows several relations between words like synonym, hyperonym, hyponym. The prototypical wordnet is the Princeton wordnet available from http://wo …
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Verner's Law and 'ge-'
Morphological levelling is the force working against Verner's law in this situation.
Note also that many forms with the ge- prefix may be created after Verner's law was active; there is a modern tren …
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Are modal verbs lexical or grammatical categories?
Even in Modern English the lack of an -s ending in the third person singular is a remainder of this inheritance. …
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Is there a resource for English relational nouns
Maybe a wordnet (e.g., the Princeton Wordnet) can be used to extract some relevant nouns. The only disadvantage of the existing wordnets is their rather low coverage of the full lexicon.
But given a …
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How to identify mentions in a text?
Does "any other method" include manual work? Then I recommend to train some students to annotate the coreference chains. Take care that every text is annotated twice by different annotators, and compu …
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Is there a term for the diminishment of intensity of meaning over time?
For the particular direction of semantic shift, I am aware of the term semantic bleaching. Semantic bleaching is part of the process of Grammaticalization.
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