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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Santos, Diana (Editor), Lindén, Krister (Editor), Ng’ang’a, Wanjiku (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computational linguistics.; Linguistics.; Computer Science.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.; Linguistics, general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Is There a Crisis in Generative Linguistics? Fred Karlsson
• “It’s Etymology Captain, But Not AsWe Know It”: Pump in North Australia. David Nash
• Translation in History. Nicholas Ostler
• Catford Revisited
• Andrew Chesterman
• The Next Step for the Translation Network. Diana Santos
• Core Vocabulary: A Useful But Mystical Concept in Some Kinds of Linguistics. Lars Borin
• Extending and Updating the Finnish Wordnet. Krister Lindén, Jyrki Niemi, and Mirka Hyvärinen
• Burstiness of Verbs and Derived Nouns. Janet B. Pierrehumbert
• Outsourcing Parsebanking: The FinnTreeBank Project. Atro Voutilainen, Tanja Purtonen, and Kristiina Muhonen
• On Dependency Analysis via Contractions and Weighted FSTs. Anssi Yli-Jyrä
• Fictive Motion Down Under: The Locative-Allative Case Alternation in Some Australian Indigenous Languages. Patrick McConvell and Jane Simpson
• Necessive Expressions in Finnic Bible Translations. Aet Lees
• Building Swahili Resource Grammars for the Grammatical Framework. Wanjiku Ng’ang’a
• On the Syntax and Translation of Finnish Discourse Clitics. Aarne Ranta .