“Adina Williams, postdoctoral researcher at Facebook AI Research New York (https://wp.nyu.edu/adinawilliams/), will be visiting us to give a talk next week.Title: Is the association of nouns to gender classes truly arbitrary?Abstract: In linguistics, debate has long raged about the nature of the relationship between nouns and grammatical gender. For languages which have a robust grammatical gender system (i.e., languages that systematically require morphological markers on nouns and, perhaps, other words nearby), how a language chooses to gender its nouns appears, at first glance, largely unrelated to the meaning of the noun…”

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