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2003
Syntax-semantics
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.
Presentation
2002
Complex predicates
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.
Presentation
2002
Syntax-semantics
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.
Presentation
2002
Syntax-semantics
The Derivation/Inflection Distinction and Post-Syntactic Merge
Karine Megerdoomian and Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
Canadian Linguistic Association. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
[NEEDS ABSTRACT]
Presentation
2001
Complex predicates
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.
Presentation
2001
Complex predicates
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.
Presentation
2001
Complex predicates
Theories of verb formation
Karine Megerdoomian
New Trends in Linguistics Workshop. Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.
[NEEDS ABSTRACT]
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
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
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
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.