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Mathias Jenny

Researcher at University of Zurich

Publications -  29
Citations -  129

Mathias Jenny is an academic researcher from University of Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Burmese & Verb. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 28 publications receiving 111 citations.

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Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors manually audit the quality of 205 language-specific corpora released with five major public datasets (CCAligned, ParaCrawl, WikiMatrix, OSCAR, mC4) and audit the correctness of language codes in a sixth (JW300).
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The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages

TL;DR: The Handbook of the Austroasiatic Languages as mentioned in this paper is the first comprehensive reference work on this important language family of South and Southeast Asia, which includes overviews, classification, historical reconstruction, plus a special overview of the Munda languages.
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Who changes language? Bilingualism and structural change in Burma and the Reef Islands

TL;DR: The authors studied two cases of contact-induced language change where lexical and grammatical borrowing appear to have gone in opposite directions: one language has borrowed large amounts of vocabulary from another while at the same time being the source of structural borrowings into the other language.
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Differential subject marking without ergativity: The case of colloquial Burmese

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the functions of the marker with subjects in colloquial Burmese and discuss factors favoring its occurrence and possible paths of its development, suggesting that there are other sources for DSM than the ones identified in the literature.
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Burmese: A Comprehensive Grammar

TL;DR: This chapter discusses the construction of language structure, form and functions of utterances, and the role of tense, aspect, and modality in language use.