About XPAR

XPAR (Language Diversity and Parallel Grammars) has been a project at the LaMoRe research group. The pilot phase, supported by L. Meltzers Høyskolefond, ran from April 1, 2009 until March 31, 2010. Some of the results are taken up in the INESS project.

The goal of XPAR has been to determine to what extent the [...]

Project description

Scientific objectives

When we use grammatical functions like subject and direct object in the description of a language, how do we know, for instance, that a subject in Georgian is the same as a subject in Norwegian? Also, when linguists use predicate-argument structures to describe the meaning of sentences, is there a way of […]

Results

TLT 8 paper: Linguistically motivated parallel parsebanks (pdf)

Participants

Victoria Rosén, project leader (Associate Professor, UIB LLE and Researcher, Unifob AKSIS) Nazareth Amlesom Kifle (Researcher, UIB LLE) Helge Dyvik (Professor, UIB LLE) Paul Meurer (Researcher, Unifob AKSIS) Koenraad De Smedt (Professor, UIB LLE and Researcher, Unifob AKSIS) Kevin Brubeck Unhammer (Master’s student, UIB)