Jungle Acoustics

Jungle Days

Jungle delights

Twelve scientists from Indonesia, Australia and the US recently returned from a two-week trek through the Foja Mountains in the Indonesian west of New Guinea. Their finds have yet to be evaluated and officially classified by experts around the world, but a preliminary count of new species includes one bird, four butterflies, five palms, one flower, four or five mammals, and 20 frogs — close to ...

Jungle Evaluation

Jungle evaluation is proposed as a new graph rewriting approach to the evaluation of functional expressions and, in particular, of algebraically specified operations. Jungles being intuitively forests of coalesced trees with shared substructures are certain acyclic hypergraphs (or equivalently, bipartite graphs) the nodes and edges of which are labeled with the sorts and operation symbols of a ...

Equilibrium in the Jungle Equilibrium in the Jungle *

In the jungle, power and coercion govern the exchange of resources. We study a simple, stylized model of the jungle that mirrors an exchange economy. We define the notion of jungle equilibrium and demonstrate that a number of standard results of competitive markets hold in the jungle. JEL Classification: C7, D4, S477, B201

The Light Verb Jungle

The study of light verbs and complex predicates is frought with dangers and misunderstandings that go beyond the merely terminological. This paper attempts to pic through the terminological, theoretical and empirical jungle in order to arrive at a novel understanding of the role of light verbs crosslinguistically. In particular, this paper addresses how light verbs and complex predicates can be...