Comparisons between Pidgins and ‘Unish’

Morphology in Pidgins and Creoles

Paradigmatic complexity in pidgins and creoles

The last decade has seen increasing attention paid to questions of grammatical complexity, in particular regarding the extent to which some languages can be said to be more “complex” than others, whether globally or with respect to particular subsystems. Creoles have featured prominently in these debates, with various authors arguing that they are particularly simple when set against noncreoles...

Between-Noun Comparisons

Adjectives are typically felicitous in within-predicate comparisons—constructions of the form ‘X is more A than y’, as in This is bigger than that, but are often infelicitous in between-predicate comparisons—constructions of the form ‘X is more A than (y is) B’, as in *Tweety is bigger than (it is) heavy. Nouns, by contrast, exhibit the inverse pattern. The challenge is to ac...

Comparisons between Certainqueueing

Stochastic and Dependence Comparisons Between Extreme Order Statistics in the Case of Proportional Reversed Hazard Model

‎Independent random‎ ‎variables $Y_{1},ldots‎ ,‎Y_{n}$ belongs to the‎ ‎proportional reversed hazard rate (PRHR) model with‎ ‎proportionality parameters $lambda_1,...,lambda_n$‎, ‎if‎ ‎$Y_{k}sim G^{lambda _{k}}(x)$‎, ‎for $k=1,...,n$‎, ‎where $G$ is an‎ ‎absolutely continuous distribution function‎. ‎In this paper we compare‎ ‎the smallest order‎ ‎statistics‎, ‎the sample ranges and th...