Tag Archives: Corsican language

A specific kind of superlative

Posted on October 12, 2018 by pilinu

Let us consider a specific kind of superlative. Such form specific to Corsican language is notably mentioned by grammarian and author Santu Casta, in his  Punteghju, who recommends the following translation of “C’était le village le plus riche du canton” (It was … Continue reading →

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Anagrams in Corsican language

Posted on August 2, 2018 by pilinu

Here are some anagrams in Corsican language: Corscia è Corsica Marta è Matra accanitu è uccitana acciliratu, ricciulata è riciculata accirtà è traccià accirtatu, catarticu è tracciatu adriatica è cadariati anacrunisimu è cunsumariani aprarà è pararà arba è bara attaccu … Continue reading →

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Rough typology of remaining errors (updated march 2018)

Posted on March 17, 2018 by pilinu

French to Corsican: performing on French wikipedia sample test currently amounts to 94% on average. Below is a rough typology of remaining errors (presumably an average scoring of 95% on the open test should be attainable on the basis of correction … Continue reading →

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A Special Case of Anaphora Resolution

Posted on December 14, 2017 by pilinu

Anaphora resolution usually refers to pronouns. But we face here a special case of anaphora resolution that relates to an adjective. The following sentence: ‘un vase de Chine authentique’ (an authentic vase of China) is translated erroneously as un vasu … Continue reading →

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Solving fivefold ambiguity: translation for French ‘poste’

Posted on December 5, 2017 by pilinu

French word ‘poste’ has (at least) fivefold ambiguity. For it can designate: ‘poste’ (masculine singular noun) : postu, masculine singular noun (set, i.e. television set) ‘poste’ (masculine singular noun): posta, feminine singular noun (position): erroneously translated as postu in the present case … Continue reading →

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Unexpected pitfalls in the disambiguation of some expressions

Posted on November 21, 2017 by pilinu

Some unexpected pitfalls are lurking in the process of disambiguation of some expressions or locutions. In the above example, the French locution ‘en train de’ can be translated : either into in trenu da (by train from) or into in … Continue reading →

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Chemistry: translating acid names

Posted on November 7, 2017 by pilinu

Translating this series of acid names is not as easy as it could seem at first glance. In effect, each acid name is composed of three consecutive ambiguous names: ‘l’ is ambiguous between the masculine (u, the) or feminine (a, … Continue reading →

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Interesting case of first name disambiguation

Posted on August 30, 2017 by pilinu

Here is an interesting case of first name disambiguation for machine translation. Consider the following first name ‘Camille’. It can apply to both genders. In Corsican (taravese or sartinese variants) it translates either into Cameddu (masculine) or Camedda (feminine). In … Continue reading →

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