The prototypes of definiteness and indefiniteness in English are the definite article the and the indefinite article a/an, and singular noun phrases (NPs) determined by them. That being the case it is not to be predicted that the concepts, whatever their content, will extend satisfactorily to other determiners or NP types. However it has become standard to extend these notions. Of the two categ...

Periodic waves in the modified Korteweg–de Vries (mKdV) equation are revisited setting of fractional Laplacian. Two families solutions local case given by sign-definite dnoidal and sign-indefinite cnoidal solutions. Both can be characterized general as global minimizers quadratic part energy functional subject to fixed \(L^4\) norm: (sign-indefinite) obtained subspace even (odd) functions. Mors...

We use some Lie group theory and Budney’s unitarization of the Lawrence-Krammer representation, to prove that for generic parameters of definite form the image of the representation (also on certain types of subgroups) is dense in the unitary group. This implies that, except possibly for closures of full-twist braids, all links have infinitely many conjugacy classes of braid representations on ...

In the SL(2) conformal field theory, we write down and analyze the analytic expression of the three-point functions of generic primary fields with definite SL(2) weights. Using these results, we discuss the operator product expansion in the SL(2, R) WZW model. We propose a prescription of the OPE, the classical limit of which is in precise agreement with the tensor products of the representatio...

This paper describes a system in PROLOG for the automatic transforination of a grammar, written in LFG formalism, into a DCG-based parser. It demonstrates the main principles of the transformation, the representation of f-structures and constraints, the treatment of long-distance dependencies, and left rccursion. Finally some problem areas of the system and possibilities for overcoming them are...

This paper presents the design and implementation of an intelligent document understanding and reproduction system. The system analyses a printed document to create an electronic document. The electronic document is written in a standard type-setting language (L w), and is thus human usable. The output from processing the electronic document closely resembles the original printed document. A ne...

This paper investigates an alternation found with definite noun phrases in direct object position in Romanian that represents a theoretical puzzle for current theories of Differential Object Marking or pe-marking (Dobrovie-Sorin 1994). When in direct object position and unmodified, definite noun phrases can be accompanied either by the differential object marker pe, or by the simple enclitic de...

Semantic accounts of the definite article have tended to fall into two general classes: ‘uniqueness’ accounts (Russell, 1905), and ‘familiarity’ accounts (Heim, 1982; see also Abbott, 2004, inter alia). It is also generally known that there are instances of definite descriptions that are resistant to such analyses, and are difficult to subsume under either treatment, or even a combination of bo...

We develop a general procedure for estimating the effective constitutive behavior of nonlinear dielectrics. The procedure is based on a variational principle expressing the effective energy function of a given nonlinear composite in terms of the effective energy functions of the class of linear comparison composites. This provides an automatic procedure for converting well-known information for...

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