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Creolization: Could Adults Really Have Done It All?

Creolization is the expansion of a simplified pidgin into a more complex language called a creole. Various theories have been proposed to explain this transition; most are attempts to explain who created the creole, adults or children, and refer to processes of first or second language acquisition. However, using traditional methods of investigation, this issue has been difficult to resolve. To...

From Procedures to Objects: What Have We (Not) Done ?

Programming education has experienced a shift from imperative and procedural programming to object-orientation. This shift has been motivated by educators’ desire to please information technology industry and potential students; it is not motivated by psychology of programming nor by computer science education research—there are practically no results that would indicate that such a shift is de...

Basin modelling : how well have we done ?

Model developers have been highly successful in building usable, useful, and reliable one-dimensional models, and in convincing explorationists to use them. Development of convenient, universal software played an instrumental role in the acceptance of 1-D modelling. The remaining weaknesses in technology and training, while serious, can be resolved through a few years of intensive work in certa...

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‘Could have done otherwise’, action sentences and anaphora

'Could have done otherwise', action sentences and anaphora HELEN STEWARD What does it mean to say of a certain agent, S, that he or she could have done otherwise? Clearly, it means nothing at all, unless the anaphoric devices within the sentence have been anchored to definite antecedents. In this paper, I shall argue that there may be more ways of effecting this anchoring than is commonly suppo...