Constructions in Minimalism: A Functional Perspective on Cyclicity

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Minimalism in human-computer interaction: development of a focused perspective on usability processes and design products

Minimalism is a concept used in many different literatures ranging from arts to mathematics. Developing a notion of minimalism for human-computer interaction and applying this notion to the products and processes of usability engineering efforts yields an alternative viewpoint. Minimalism lays ultimate value on freedom for the user; the interface grows through reduction. This attitude is inhere...

Constructions Across Time and Space: Perspective Constructions

The German standard language and some of its dialects distinguish two types of directional adverbs, depending on the perspective taken in the speech event. For example, both SHG hinauf vs. herauf mean up. However, the two adverbs differ in that a motion verb modified by SHG hinauf will be construed not only as being UP(WARDS) but also as being AWAYFROM-(the)-ORIGO (we use the term origo to refe...

Computational perspectives on minimalism

While research in ‘principles and parameters’ tradition [18] can be regarded as attributing as much as possible to universal grammar (UG) in order to understand how language acquisition is possible, Chomsky characterizes the ‘minimalist program’ as an effort to attribute as little as possible to UG while still accounting for the apparent diversity of human languages [23, p.4]. Of course, these ...

A New Perspective on Japanese Sika-Nai Constructions