VERB ELLIPSIS IN CHARLES DICKENS’S NOVEL: “BLEAK HOUSE” ELLIPSIS VERBA DALAM NOVEL CHARLES DICKENS: “BLEAK HOUSE”

Evolution and epilepsy in "Bleak House".

In Charles Dickens's novels, nervous seizures trigger dreamy, clairvoyant episodes in which normally imperceptible connections and relations among events and characters come to light. During such episodes, which the neurologist John Hughlings Jackson would describe as "voluminous" states of consciousness, the boundaries of the self dissolve, and the mind becomes attuned to a range of possible i...

Charles Dickens: a neglected diagnosis.

Subdeletion in Verb Phrase Ellipsis

This paper stems from an ongoing research project ~ on verb phrase ellipsis. The project's goals are to implement a verb phrase ellipsis resolution algorithm, automatically test the algorithm on corpus data, then automatically evaluate the algorithm against human-generated answers. The paper will establish the current status of the algorithm based on this automatic evaluation, categorizing curr...

Charles Dickens' Consultation with Mr. Syme *The Life of Charles Dickens, by John Forster, page 417.

us believe) in any dialect in Scotland; in fact the tendency in all Scotch dialects is to pronounce it "jest." And as regards the alleged difference of opinion between Mr. Syme and Sir Henry Thompson, I heard Mr. Syme describe his interview with Dickens on the day it took place, and remember that he not only took a serious view of the condition of Dickens' foot, but also spoke of Sir Henry Thom...

Collin Bleak

My research primarily uses close analysis of the dynamics of a group or semigroup action on a space to discern properties of the group or semigroup. In particular, I am primarily interested in groups of automorphisms of a space and in semigroups of endomorphisms of a space. Supporting this, I have a secondary focus on topological and symbolic dynamics, which itself has lead me to an interest in...