Populating the Greater Germanic Empire

Populating the whole landscape.

Every de Sitter vacuum can transition to every other de Sitter vacuum despite any obstacle, despite intervening anti-de Sitter sinks, despite not being connected by an instanton. Eternal inflation populates the whole landscape.

Populating the Semantic Web

The vision of the Semantic Web is that a vast store of online information “meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities”. Unfortunately, the vast majority of information on the Web is formatted to be easily read by human users, not computer applications. In order to make the vision of the Semantic Web a reality, tools for automatically annotating Web content with seman...

The British Empire Exhibition

Globish and the empire.

On the use of passives across Germanic

Introduction There has long been an intuition that the subject position is deeply relevant to information structural concerns cross-linguistically, particularly because they frequently appear at the left edge of a clause, which is thought to be associated with given/topical information (cf. Vallduvi 1992). This raises interesting questions about the role of the passive construction in the disco...