Ebook: Shall We Play the Festschrift Game?: Essays on the Occasion of Lauri Carlson's 60th Birthday

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.

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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.

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Is There a Crisis in Generative Linguistics?....Pages 1-5
“It’s Etymology Captain, but Not as We Know It”: Pump in North Australia....Pages 7-18
Translation in History....Pages 19-24
Catford Revisited....Pages 25-33
The Next Step for the Translation Network....Pages 35-52
Core Vocabulary: A Useful But Mystical Concept in Some Kinds of Linguistics....Pages 53-65
Extending and Updating the Finnish Wordnet....Pages 67-98
Burstiness of Verbs and Derived Nouns....Pages 99-115
Outsourcing Parsebanking: The FinnTreeBank Project....Pages 117-131
On Dependency Analysis via Contractions and Weighted FSTs....Pages 133-158
Fictive Motion Down Under: The Locative-Allative Case Alternation in Some Australian Indigenous Languages....Pages 159-180
Necessive Expressions in Finnic Bible Translations....Pages 181-214
Building Swahili Resource Grammars for the Grammatical Framework....Pages 215-226
On the Syntax and Translation of Finnish Discourse Clitics....Pages 227-241

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Is There a Crisis in Generative Linguistics?....Pages 1-5
“It’s Etymology Captain, but Not as We Know It”: Pump in North Australia....Pages 7-18
Translation in History....Pages 19-24
Catford Revisited....Pages 25-33
The Next Step for the Translation Network....Pages 35-52
Core Vocabulary: A Useful But Mystical Concept in Some Kinds of Linguistics....Pages 53-65
Extending and Updating the Finnish Wordnet....Pages 67-98
Burstiness of Verbs and Derived Nouns....Pages 99-115
Outsourcing Parsebanking: The FinnTreeBank Project....Pages 117-131
On Dependency Analysis via Contractions and Weighted FSTs....Pages 133-158
Fictive Motion Down Under: The Locative-Allative Case Alternation in Some Australian Indigenous Languages....Pages 159-180
Necessive Expressions in Finnic Bible Translations....Pages 181-214
Building Swahili Resource Grammars for the Grammatical Framework....Pages 215-226
On the Syntax and Translation of Finnish Discourse Clitics....Pages 227-241
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