Rauzy graphs of subshifts are endowed with an automaton structure. For Sturmian subshifts, it is shown that its transition semigroup is the syntactic semigroup of the language recognized by the automaton. A projective limit of the partial semigroups of nonzero regular elements of their transition semigroups is described. If the subshift is minimal, then this projective limit is isomorphic, as a...

This paper deals with the problem of the projection of arguments, i.e., how the arguments of a predicate are integrated into a syntactic structure. My starting point is the model offered in Borer (1993). This model is defined by Borer as a 'syntactic predicate based account' of the projection of arguments. In the next section I will briefly sketch the different approaches to the problem of argu...

There is substantial evidence that speakers co-ordinate their contributions in dialogue. Until now, experimental studies of co-ordination have concentrated on the development of shared strategies for reference. We present an experiment that employed a novel confederate-scripting technique to investigate whether speakers also co-ordinate syntactic structure in dialogue. Pairs of speakers took it...

SOFL formal specifications have been proved to be useful and expressive enough in describing functional requirements for software development. Based on SOFL formal specifications, many techniques have been proposed to provide us with effective solutions for software verification and validation. To support these techniques, a tool support for analysis of specifications is necessary. However, suc...

Carnap (in, [ I ] , p. 566) has remarked that his measure function m* is jitting fof finite languages using a fixed number of one-place predicates, i.e., for any sentence i, m*(;) is the same In all such restricted finite languages in which i occurs. The main purpose of this brief note is to show by means of a counter-example that * does not have the intuitively desirable property of fittingne...

We prove that for any finite prefix code X with n elements, the non special subgroups in the syntactic monoid of X have degree at most n − 1. This implies in particular that the groups in the syntactic monoid of X are all cyclic when X is a prefix code with three elements.

This paper gives attention to the so-called Sequence of Tenses phenomenon in English and explores what sorts of factors influence tense choice. Our analysis proves that what plays the crucial role in tense choice is the reporting speaker's attitude to the message, and that he or she chooses the tense taking three simplified factors into consideration: the semantic relation between the reporting...

A new method for the classification of the QRS patterns in electrocardiograms (ECGs), which belongs to the category of the syntactic methods, is presented in this paper. This method takes into account structural as well as quanlitative information. Some experimental results obtained by this method are also presented. Key wor~L~" Classification, QRS patterns, ECG waveforms, syntactic methods, st...

Monadic predicates for "good" and "bad" are inserted into structures already containing the dyadic predicate "better". A set of logical properties for "good" and "bad" is proposed, and a complete characterization is given of the pairs of monadic predicates that have these properties. It is argued that "good" and "bad" can indeed be defined in terms of "better", and a definition is given that is...

it holds true that a flourishing fieldof contrastive rhetoric (cr) research has begun to address theway various text types and/or genres may differ across culturesand languages (corner, 1996).  very much in line withthis development, this study was an attempt to characterizethe linguistic structures of headlines in the sports section of 2 english newspapers: one non-iranian (the times) and one ...