Determining Data Relevance Using Semantic Types and Graphical Interpretation Cues

2016 ◽  
pp. 332-342
Author(s):  
Eduardo Haruo Kamioka ◽  
André Freitas ◽  
Frederico Caroli ◽  
Siegfried Handschuh
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Interpretation ◽  
Semantic Types

“That’s well good”: A Re-emergent Intensifier in Current British English

2020 ◽  
pp. 007542422097914
Author(s):  
Karin Aijmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
British English ◽  
Discourse Marker ◽  
Time Gap ◽  
British National Corpus ◽  
Semantic Types ◽  
Over Time ◽  
National Corpus

Well has a long history and is found as an intensifier already in older English. It is argued that diachronically well has developed from its etymological meaning (‘in a good way’) on a cline of adverbialization to an intensifier and to a discourse marker. Well is replaced by other intensifiers in the fourteenth century but emerges in new uses in Present-Day English. The changes in frequency and use of the new intensifier are explored on the basis of a twenty-year time gap between the old British National Corpus (1994) and the new Spoken British National Corpus (2014). The results show that well increases in frequency over time and that it spreads to new semantic types of adjectives and participles, and is found above all in predicative structures with a copula. The emergence of a new well and its increase in frequency are also related to social factors such as the age, gender, and social class of the speakers, and the informal character of the conversation.

Assembly Configurations and Branches of Planar Single-Input Dyadic Mechanisms

1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Foster ◽  
R. J. Cipra
Keyword(s):  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Graphical Interpretation ◽  
Single Input ◽  
Sliding Joints

This paper examines the problem of enumerating the assembly configurations (ACs), also called circuits, and branches of planar single-input dyadic (SID) mechanisms which have links with pin joints and sliding joints. An SID mechanism is a multiloop mechanism which can be defined by adding one loop at a time such that the mechanism has one degree of freedom after each loop is added. A method is given to find the ACs of such a mechanism. The emphasis is on using graphical interpretation to determine the mobility regions of the mechanism which are preserved when each new loop is added to the mechanism. This method of interpretation is readily automated. Each AC can be represented as a set of instructions for the input link to follow, along with a list of dyad configurations for each instruction. Each instruction corresponds to a branch of the mechanism. Examples are given to demonstrate the use of this method.

Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin ◽  
Ion Giurgea
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Number Marking ◽  
Semantic Types

This book is a study of the syntax and semantics of proportional Most and other majority quantifiers across languages. Based on data drawn from around forty languages, this book reveals the existence of two semantic types of Most: a distributive type, which compares cardinalities of sets of atoms, and a “cumulative” type, which involves measuring plural and mass entities with respect to a whole. On the syntactic side, the most important difference is between non-partitive and partitive configurations. Certain majority quantifiers are specialized for partitive constructions, others are also allowed in non-partitives. We also examine complex majority expressions of the type The Largest Part and nominal quantifiers of the type The Majority. This large scale crosslinguistic investigation qualifies as a piece of typological research that moreover offers several case studies on both well-studied and less investigated languages (English, German, Icelandic, Romanian, Italian, Hungarian, Basque, Latin, Hindi, Syrian Arabic). The proposed analyses raise new theoretical questions regarding issues such as number marking, partitivity, kind reference, (in)definiteness marking, which are crucial issues for linguistic theory. Noteworthy is the attention paid to mass and collective quantification, an under-studied area. We argue in favor of a quantificational analysis of Most, against recent analyses that attempt to derive the proportional interpretation from the superlative, but we adopt a bipartition-cum-superlative analysis for The Largest Part.

FRACTIONAL KINETIC EQUATIONS INVOLVING GENERALIZED V-FUNCTION VIA LAPLACE TRANSFORM

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 2593-2610
Author(s):  
Wagdi F.S. Ahmed ◽  
D.D. Pawar ◽  
W.D. Patil
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Equation ◽  
Laplace Transform ◽  
Kinetic Equations ◽  
Graphical Interpretation ◽  
Fractional Kinetic Equation ◽  
Fractional Kinetic Equations

In this study, a new and further generalized form of the fractional kinetic equation involving the generalized V$-$function has been developed. We have discussed the manifold generality of the generalized V$-$function in terms of the solution of the fractional kinetic equation. Also, the graphical interpretation of the solutions by employing MATLAB is given. The results are very general in nature, and they can be used to generate a large number of known and novel results.

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