Monthly Archives: September 2014

Headline passive

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Colin Batchelor

I read the news today. To be precise, I’ve been looking at the BBC website’s news in Gaelic and I’ve spotted a grammatical theme among a large proportion of the headlines and standfirsts: Fiosrachadh ga shireadh mu ghoid charbad phoilis “information sought about … Continue reading →

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gdbank: CCG and dependency structures in Scottish Gaelic

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Colin Batchelor

I have been working on a small corpus of Scottish Gaelic sentences. The words in them are all annotated with categorial grammar types and dependency relations. It’s available on Google Code GitHub and there is a more detailed description in this … Continue reading →

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