Automatic estimation of speaker age using CART
Susanne Schötz · 2009
• Expressions of directionality may have different information-carrying roles in different languages. • This role, as perceived by the translator, is conveyed through both position and arrangement of such expressions in the translation. • Directionality is a universal characteristic of language; ways to express this are not. • Directionality can be evidenced in words or phrases with other unrelated semantic-syntactic functions. • Deixis is an important factor when a decision is taken whether to include directionality or not. • According to the markedness theory, location/stasis should be unmarked, and direction/dynamism marked. Consequently, not all languages may have the function-specific words to express directionality, but wHl evidence other means for expressing this quality.