THE PROTO-GERMANIC PLUPERFECT

Which graphs are pluperfect?

A graph G is pluperfect if one can add new multiple edges to obtain a multi graph M satisfying: (1) G spans M, (2) the degrees of the nodes of M are consecutive integers, (3) G and M have the same minimum degree. Our purpose is to display several families of pluperfect graphs in order to L Introduction My good friends Mehdi Behzad and Gary Chartrand wrote a note [1] titled "No graph is perfect"...

A Semantics and Pragmatics for the Pluperfect

We offer a semantics and pragmatics of the pluperfect in narrative discourse. We rexamine in a formal model of implicature, how the reader's knowledge about the discourse, Gricean-maxims and causation contribute to the meaning of the pluperfect. By placing the analysis in a theory where the interactions among these knowledge resources can be precisely computed, we overcome some problems with pr...

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...

The proto-Elamite Tablets from Tape Sofalin

Twelve proto-Elamite tablets and fragments were found during the 2006-07 excavation at Tape Sofalin in the northernCentral Iranian Plateau. The form and content of these tablets is entirely consistent with that of the standard and late proto-Elamite tablets from Susa, except TSF 11, which we date to the Susa II/GodinV Period. Although all of the inscribedobjects from Tape Sofalin published here...

The Provenance of Provenance in Germanic Areas