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2003

Syntax-semantics
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Asymmetries in Form and Meaning: Surface Realization and Interface Conditions

Karine Megerdoomian

Workshop on Approaching Asymmetry at the Interfaces. Montreal, QC, Canada

Compares Japanese and Eastern Armenian causatives to examine how similar syntactic and semantic content can surface as a word or a phrase. Proposes that cross-linguistic differences follow from parameters governing spell-out at the phonological interface.

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2002

Complex predicates
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Aspect in Complex Predicates

Karine Megerdoomian

Workshop on Complex Predicates, Particles and Subevents. Konstanz, Germany.

Examines how light verbs, preverbal elements, and nominal arguments contribute to aspect in Persian complex predicates. Challenges classifications based solely on the light verb and argues for finer distinctions involving event structure, boundedness, and reference to a final state.

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2002

Syntax-semantics
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Parallel domains and the projection of arguments

Karine Megerdoomian

USC-GSIL Student Workshop. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Uses evidence from Finnish, Scots Gaelic, and Eastern Armenian to argue for parallel nominal and verbal projections. Connects case and agreement patterns to shared structural primitives involving aspect, reference, boundedness, and instantiation.

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2002

Syntax-semantics
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The Derivation/Inflection Distinction and Post-Syntactic Merge

Karine Megerdoomian and Arsalan Kahnemuyipour

Canadian Linguistic Association. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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2001

Complex predicates
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Verb Formation and the Syntax-Lexicon Interface

Karine Megerdoomian

Modern Trends in Linguistics, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

Reviews competing theories of verb formation and the syntax-lexicon interface, including Distributed Morphology and approaches to argument structure. Examines how they explain compositionality and whether words and phrases require distinct grammatical mechanisms.

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2001

Complex predicates
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Primitive Elements of Verbal Predicates: Evidence from Persian

Karine Megerdoomian

Workshop on Syntax of Predication. ZAS Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Investigates the contributions of verbal and nonverbal elements to transitivity and aspect in Persian complex predicates. Proposes a compositional analysis built from primitive meaning components, drawing on nominalization, stress, and separation patterns to examine wordhood.

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2001

Complex predicates
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Theories of verb formation

Karine Megerdoomian

New Trends in Linguistics Workshop. Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

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Journal Article

2001

Complex predicates

Event Structure and Complex Predicates in Persian

Karine Megerdoomian

Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp 97-125. Special issue on the Syntax of Iranian languages.

Develops a syntactic account of Persian complex predicates in which lexical roots combine with functional heads that introduce arguments. The analysis derives event and argument structure compositionally, questioning a strict division between lexical and phrasal predicates.

Technical Report

2000

Persian NLP
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Persian-English machine translation: An overview of the Shiraz project

Jan W. Amtrup, Hamid Mansouri Rad, Karine Megerdoomian and Remi Zajac

Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science (MCCS-00-319). Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University. Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Describes the linguistic resources and computational architecture of the Shiraz Persian–English machine translation system. Covers its bilingual dictionary, morphological analysis, syntactic parsing, and treatment of compounds and light verb constructions within a unification-based framework.

Proceedings Article

2000

Syntax-semantics
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Aspect and Partitive Objects in Finnish

Karine Megerdoomian

Proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL)

Examines how aspect and nominal quantification interact in Finnish object case marking. Distinguishes result orientation from boundedness and proposes a structural account linking verbal aspect, quantified objects, and partitive case.

Proceedings Article

2000

Persian NLP

Rapid Development of Translation Tools: Applications to Persian and Turkish

Jan Amtrup, Karine Megerdoomian and Remi Zajac

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2000)

Presents a machine translation toolkit designed for rapid deployment, illustrated by Persian-English and Turkish-English systems. Describes the systems' architecture and the methodology used to develop them.

Technical Report

2000

Persian NLP
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A computational analysis of the Persian noun phrase

Karine Megerdoomian

Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science (MCCS-00-321). Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University. Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Analyzes the structure and ambiguity of Persian noun phrases and relative clauses for automatic parsing. Identifies lexical and morphological boundary cues and describes their implementation in the Shiraz project's unification-based grammar.

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