III-y Imperatives in Ancient Hebrew

Input sensitive thresholding for ancient Hebrew manuscript

In this paper, we describe an input sensitive thresholding algorithm for ancient Hebrew calligraphy documents. Usually, historical document images are of poor quality since the documents have degraded over time due to storage conditions. However, the distribution of noise in one document is not uniform and the characters quality may vary. We develop tools to identify noisy characters and apply ...

Dissertation Abstracts Horn-motifs in the Hebrew Bible and Related Ancient near Eastern Literature and Iconography

Imperatives in conditional conjunction ∗

This paper provides evidence for an ambiguity of bare VPs in the English conditional conjunction construction. This ambiguity, undetected by previous researchers, provides a key to the development of a compositional semantic analysis of conditional conjunction with imperative first conjuncts. The analysis combines existing semantic theories of imperatives, the future tense, modal subordination,...

Development Imperatives

The objectives of the project are 1) to enhance the capability of civil society organizations in economic policy advocacy work, and 2) to pursue specific policy reform agenda based on the needs of the sector. In the last three years, in each of the sub-sector, the project is implemented through the MultiStakeholders’ Team (MST) which consists of a key NGO partner, a subject specialist (technica...

Conditionalized Imperatives

Before talking about conditionalized imperatives, I want to ensure a common understanding of ‘imperative’, namely as a clause type in the sense of Sadock and Zwicky (1985). That means that for a given language L , imperative will be taken to denote one of L ’s form types at sentence level, namely the one tokens of which are prototypically used for REQUESTs or COMMANDs. As such they are parallel...