Indefinite Composites and Word-Coinage

Indefinite Composites and Word-coinage

Coinage, Debasements, and Gresham’s Laws

For hundreds of years, supplies of coins in Europe emerged, via a curious mechanism, from voluntary decisions of owners of old coins and bullion to exchange them at mints for new coins. Mints were sometimes private enterprises, licensed to produce on demand a list of coins whose design and neness was speciied by the sovereign. Citizens were free to take metal to the mint 1 to purchase newly min...

The indefinite article – Indefinite ? – Article ?

Perlmutter (1970) argued that the indefinite article is categorically different from the definite article and proposed that it is a clitic version of the numeral "one". But there are, as Perlmutter himself pointed out, instances of "a" as well as of "one" that don't seem to have the semantics of the numeral. Hence a divorce of "a" (and of "one") from "numeral"-hood is called for. Furthermore, t...

Omaha Metals, Coinage, and Syntax: Outside Influence?

A study of acculturation terms for metals and money in Omaha and some of the neighboring native languages related to it sheds light upon the historical circumstances in which these terms were

Abstract Template for ECCOMAS Composites 2007 (Word version)

Many countries are implementing new dam safety regulations that often include more restrictive standards. This, together with the increasing average age of dams, results in a greater need for dam control and maintenance works. The advances in information and communications technologies improved the performance of dam monitoring systems, so a large amount of information on the dam behaviour can ...