Kazan Linguistic Landscape: Synchronic Aspect

Kazan: the Religiously Undivided Frontier City

Located at the confluence of the Turko-Islamic and Slavic-Christian worlds, Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, a semiautonomous region of Russia, is populated by roughly even numbers of Muslim Tatars and Eastern Orthodox Russians. The city is separately important to each group’s national history. For the Tatars, it is remembered as the seat of their Islamic state that held sway ov...

Cs 374 Paper Summary – Wissam Kazan

The paper discusses a new algorithm to assign orthologous genes between a pair of genomes using both sequence similarity and evolutionary events. Many ortholog assignment algorithms have already been developed, but most of them are based on DNA/protein sequence similarity or use a homology search algorithm. The paper divides the problem in two phases: the signed reversal distance with duplicate...

Tense, aspect and coercion in a cross-linguistic perspective

Aspectual operators like the progressive in English change the aspectual nature of the eventuality. The meaning shift is grammaticalized by means of a morphological marker or a syntactic construction. But sometimes aspectual shift is hidden. These are cases where an eventuality description is coerced in order to repair the mismatch between the aspectual nature of the eventuality and the aspectu...

Reasoning about Synchronic Groups

Swarm is a computational model which extends the UNITY model in three important ways: (1) UNITY's fixed set of variables is replaced by an unbounded set of tuples which are addressed by content rather than by name; (2) UNITY's static set of statements is replaced by a dynamic set of transactions; and (3) UNITY's state II-composition is augmented by dynamic coupling of transactions into synchron...

Synchronic Analysis and Ast: Understanding