More diversity enGENDERed by African languages: an introduction

African Languages An Introduction

African same-sex sexualities and gender-diversity: an introduction.

Closed adjective classes and primary adjectives in African Languages INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION The existence of closed adjective classes (henceforth CAC) has long been recognized for African languages. Although I probably haven’t found the earliest mention of this property, Welmers’ statement in African Language Structures is often quoted: “It is important to note, however, that in almost all Niger-Congo languages which have a class of adjectives, the class is rather small (...

Compiling Lazy Functional Languages: An introduction

Functional programming languages, like Hope BMS80], ML GMW79], Mil84] and Miranda Tur85], ooer an attractive alternative to conventional imperative ones Bac78], Tur81]. In a functional language, executing a program corresponds to computing the value of an expression. In contrast to imperative languages, there are no notions of statements or updatable variables (i.e. in the sense of names for st...

Finite semigroups and recognizable languages: an introduction

This paper is an attempt to share with a larger audience some modern developments in the theory of finite automata. It is written for the mathematician who has a background in semigroup theory but knows next to nothing on automata and languages. No proofs are given, but the main results are illustrated by several examples and counterexamples. What is the topic of this theory? It deals with lang...