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Shall We Play the Festschrift Game?

Essays on the Occasion of Lauri Carlson's 60th Birthday

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Editors:
  1. Diana Santos

    1. Department of Literature, Area Studies and, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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  2. Krister Lindén

    1. Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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  3. Wanjiku Ng’ang’a

    1. Informatics, University of Nairobi, School of Computing &, Nairobi, Kenya

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  • The contributions in the present book represent several areas of linguistics – descriptive, formal and computational – as well as translation studies
  • It well illustrates the current diversity of research questions and hypotheses in language studies
  • Anyone interested in the study of language and the intriguing puzzles offered by translation, discourse and semantics will be interested
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Is There a Crisis in Generative Linguistics?

    • Fred Karlsson
    Pages 1-5

  3. “It’s Etymology Captain, but Not as We Know It”: Pump in North Australia

    • David Nash
    Pages 7-18

  4. Translation in History

    • Nicholas Ostler
    Pages 19-24

  5. Catford Revisited

    • Andrew Chesterman
    Pages 25-33

  6. The Next Step for the Translation Network

    • Diana Santos
    Pages 35-52

  7. Core Vocabulary: A Useful But Mystical Concept in Some Kinds of Linguistics

    • Lars Borin
    Pages 53-65

  8. Extending and Updating the Finnish Wordnet

    • Krister Lindén, Jyrki Niemi, Mirka Hyvärinen
    Pages 67-98

  9. Burstiness of Verbs and Derived Nouns

    • Janet B. Pierrehumbert
    Pages 99-115

  10. Outsourcing Parsebanking: The FinnTreeBank Project

    • Atro Voutilainen, Tanja Purtonen, Kristiina Muhonen
    Pages 117-131

  11. On Dependency Analysis via Contractions and Weighted FSTs

    • Anssi Yli-Jyrä
    Pages 133-158

  12. Fictive Motion Down Under: The Locative-Allative Case Alternation in Some Australian Indigenous Languages

    • Patrick McConvell, Jane Simpson
    Pages 159-180

  13. Necessive Expressions in Finnic Bible Translations

    • Aet Lees
    Pages 181-214

  14. Building Swahili Resource Grammars for the Grammatical Framework

    • Wanjiku Ng’ang’a
    Pages 215-226

  15. On the Syntax and Translation of Finnish Discourse Clitics

    • Aarne Ranta
    Pages 227-241
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About this book

There are not many people who can be said to have influenced and impressed researchers in so many disparate areas and language-geographic fields as Lauri Carlson, as is evidenced in the present Festschrift. His insight and acute linguistic sensitivity and linguistic rationality have spawned findings and research work in many areas, from non-standard etymology to hardcore formal linguistics, not forgetting computational areas such as parsing, terminological databases, and, last but not least, machine translation. In addition to his renowned and widely acknowledged insights in tense and aspect and its relationship with nominal quantification, and his ground-breaking work in dialog using game-theoretic machinery, Lauri has in the last fifteen years as Professor of Language Theory and Translation Technology contributed immensely to areas such as translation, terminology and general applications of computational linguistics. The three editors of the present volume have successfully performed doctoral studies under Lauri’s supervision, and wish with this volume to pay tribute to his supervision and to his influence in matters associated with research and scientific, linguistic and philosophical inquiry, as well as to his humanity and friendship.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Literature, Area Studies and, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Diana Santos

  • Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Krister Lindén

  • Informatics, University of Nairobi, School of Computing &, Nairobi, Kenya

    Wanjiku Ng’ang’a

About the editors

Dr. Diana Santos is associate professor of Portuguese at the University of Oslo and she has worked in computational linguistics, contrastive studies, and corpus-based semantics for more than 25 years, being the leader of Linguateca, a resource center for the computational processing of the Portuguese language.

Dr. Krister Lindén is research director of FIN-CLARIN at the University of Helsinki and he has worked in computational linguistics, language technology and language studies for more than 25 years.

Dr. Wanjiku Ng'ang'a is a senior faculty member at the School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, and is also a Research Lead in the C4DLab which undertakes R&D in ICT4D. Her research work in language technology focuses on African languages, having worked on Swahili, Gĩkũyũ and Igbo.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Shall We Play the Festschrift Game?

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on the Occasion of Lauri Carlson's 60th Birthday

  • Editors: Diana Santos, Krister Lindén, Wanjiku Ng’ang’a

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30773-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-30772-0Published: 14 August 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43251-4Published: 20 September 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-30773-7Published: 14 August 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 244

  • Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, general

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