Petrology of Kaimon-dake Volcano

Dake-wa : Exhaustifying Assertions

Following the structure meaning approach (c.f. [3,4]), I argued in [5] that the prosodic peak of Contrastive-marking creates a partition of the asserted proposition into B (background) and F (Focus). The morphological wa-marking then introduces the Con operator that takes the structured meaning as its argument and yields a conventional implicature. The Contrastive-marked sentence presupposes th...

Mapping and Analyzing the Volcano-Petrology and Tectono-Seismicity Characteristics Along the Syrian Rift – NW the Arabian Plate

Fractals in petrology

A fractal (power-law) distribution is the only statistical distribution applicable to a scale-invariant process. One of the major problems in petrology is the distribution of trace elements in the Earth’s crust. Extreme values of this distribution result in ore deposits. There is accumulating observational evidence that tonnage–grade statistics of ore deposits are often fractal (powerlaw). Rayl...

Semantic And Pragmatic Interpretation Of Japanese Sentences With Dake (Only)

Separating semantics and pragmatics is important for the design of natural language systems, as well as for linguistic purposes, because the former is inherently dependent on particular lexical items involved or the overall organization of the particular language in question, thus comprising a language-dependent part of the interpretive system, whereas the latter is essentially related to a mor...

Petrology and geochemistry of lavas

“This continuity disappears, however, if one considers individual parts of the [Central American] chain and examines separate groups of volcanoes within a restricted volcanic field. It then becomes apparent that the continuity of the province as a whole is the result of grouping excessively large segments of the chain.” A.R. McBirney: Compositional variations in Cenozoic calcalkaline suites of ...