The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips

Reconfiguration of Chains and Networks: Positioning Paper

1. Prologue The Netherlands must remain a beautiful and prosperous country and, to maintain it, large-scale investments will be needed in the decades to come. This is the gist of the mission letter that the Dutch Cabinet sent to Parliament in 1996. In response, the so-called ICES/KIS work group defined six score themes within which knowledge had to be developed, mobilized and applied to help th...

The Plural Is Semantically Unmarked

The Emergence of the Unmarked Pronoun :

In Optimality Theory a grammar consists of a ranking of constraints which are (i) universal and (ii) violable. Languages diier systematically only in their rankings of these constraints (Prince and Smolensky 1993). The latter is a powerful theoretical principle which plays a central role in the explanatory scope of OT (Smolensky 1996a,b), its learnability (Tesar and Smolensky 1996) and its cons...

The Emergence of the Comparatively Unmarked

Non-structure preserving phonological processes are defined by the emergence of a segment which is assumed to be absent from the lexical inventory of the language in question and, hence not contrastive. A central tenet of Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004, McCarthy & Prince 1993, 1995, 1999), the Richness of the Base Hypothesis (RotB; Prince & Smolensky 1993) states that lingu...

On the tutte polynomial of benzenoid chains

The Tutte polynomial of a graph G, T(G, x,y) is a polynomial in two variables defined for every undirected graph contains information about how the graph is connected. In this paper a simple formula for computing Tutte polynomial of a benzenoid chain is presented.