Strategy for Grammar Construction
Continuity
In the realm of language, compound verb forms can be subject to interruptions, allowing the insertion of various elements, such as adverbials and nominals. However, during the initial phase of grammar development, the focus...
Parsing Bulgarian Verb Forms
The process of building a grammar initiates with an abstraction from grammar books, typically intended for human understanding and not tailored for direct practical applications in software. Grammar books and paper dictionaries lack comprehensive...
Sources of Linguistic Knowledge
Sources of Linguistic Knowledge and Grammar Writing Facilities
When tasked with constructing a grammar for parsing compound verb forms, the BulTreeBank project team provides a special-purpose corpus of one million word tokens, sourced from newspapers...
WHAT BECOMES Of THE ROMAN-HEARTED
Yet there were women among them who were to these as they were to town ladies, country women from a remoter country. The eyes of these others were mild yet wild, like the eyes...
A sexual instrument for the lord
Fourth, the privilege of the wealthy was reflected in some extraordinary vulnerabilities among the rest of society. A little girl growing up on the serving side of a great house could rarely imagine a...
LIVING IN THE SOCIAL WORLD
Every page of our story assumes a society of huge chasms with wealth and status running among people who lived with each other every day. All our modern studies of the splendors of ancient...
Destroyed by a Mamluk sultan in the thirteenth century
In Cosmas’s day, the prosperity of that world was enough to make a businessman’s mouth water. Gaza on the Mediterranean coast was already a trading post, and Caesarea (destroyed by a Mamluk sultan in...
Mesopotamia is the heart of modern Iraq
Mesopotamia is the heart of modern Iraq. The lands to its east over the Zagros Mountains—the highlands of classical Persia and modern Iran— are its natural partners. The lower Tigris valley in particular remains...
Gupta empire in India was deteriorating
Closer at hand, the Gupta empire in India was deteriorating, but the states that succeeded it were, if less coherently gathered together, doubtless more prosperous and attractive in the reports carried of them to...
Veliko Tarnovo – legends and reality
Bulgaria Holidays – Veliko Tarnovo – past and contemporaneousness, legends and reality, rich cultural inheritance and active social life
The town of Veliko Tarnovo is in north central Bulgaria, in the valley of Yantra River....
