Kateryna Gerasymova
2012
A language strategy for aspect: Encoding Aktionsarten through morphologyPDF
Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, pages 257 -- 276, 2012
Abstract This chapter explores a possible language strategy for verbalizing aspect: the encoding of Aktionsarten by means of morphological markers. The Russian tense-aspect system is used as a model. We first operationalize this system and reconstruct the learning ...
2010
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 145-152, 2010
Slavic aspect has remained a mystery for centuries and continues to fascinate linguists. The genesis of this intricate grammar category is even a greater puzzle. This paper aims at computationally reconstructing the prerequisite for aspect -- the emergence of a system of markers ...MORE ⇓
Slavic aspect has remained a mystery for centuries and continues to fascinate linguists. The genesis of this intricate grammar category is even a greater puzzle. This paper aims at computationally reconstructing the prerequisite for aspect -- the emergence of a system of markers for Aktionsarten. We present an experiment where artificial language users develop a conventional system as the consequence of their distributed choices in locally situated communicative acts.