Poetic form as meaning in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

The grammatical description as a collection of form-meaning-pairs

This paper analyzes the structure of books containing grammatical descriptions and builds up on work by Good (2004). It argues that the discussion of morphology, syntax, semantics, and intonation found in grammatical descriptions can be seen as a collection of interdependent form-meaning-pairs. These form-meaning-pairs form part of the larger structure of frontmatter, mainmatter and backmatter ...

Cell wall cementing materials of grass leaves.

Treatment of grass leaves with either a purified pectin lyase of Aspergillus japonicus or a purified xylanase of Trichoderma viride could lead to the isolation of some single leaf cells. However, a mixture of pectin lyase and xylanase brought about more rapid isolation of single cells than did either of the two enzymes alone, indicating a synergistic effect. Analysis of the components released ...

Assigning Meaning to Form

Complex critical systems need to be formally described and analysed (i.e., engineered). Many different formal methods have been developed for analysing almost all aspects of these systems and in certain cases even synthesising parts of these systems themselves through, e.g., controller synthesis. In many cases however, it is not at all obvious what the results of the tools developed for these m...

"What is the grass?": The Roots of Walt Whitman's Cemetery Meditation

Argument Structure as an Interface Between Form and Meaning

A. In this paper we argue for a specific form of semantic representations, which pair together a DRS with a list of statements that declare how the variables occurring in the DRS are to be handled under merge. This eliminates the need for an external accounting device. Additionally, it greatly simplifies the amount of structure needed to account for the behaviour of contextually determin...