◮ The basic idea: ◮ Syntactic structure consists of lexical items, linked by binary asymmetric relations called dependencies. ◮ In the (translated) words of Lucien Tesnière [Tesnière(1959)]: ◮ The sentence is an organized whole, the constituent elements of which are words. [1.2] Every word that belongs to a sentence ceases by itself to be isolated as in the dictionary. Between the word and its ...

On August 24, 1804, Charlotte Belgrave, a free colored woman, wrote a letter to Governor Seaforth. petitioned the governor for the release of her husband, Jacob Belgrave, from the local prison. Belgrave had been imprisoned following an altercation with a white merchant. Apparently, he had accused the latter, a Mr. Gittens, with having overcharged on an item which he had purchased. Gittens had r...

By SHAW FRIEDMAN LaPORTE Say it ain’t so, Joe. Not only are many of your criticisms of local government off base, but it appears this governor is cynically using your help on his Blue Ribbon Commmission to aid his own re-election effort. Don’t let him get away with it. One local Mitch booster here in LaPorte practically gushes when he talks about it. He can’t believe their good fortune that Mit...

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This paper describes two steam turbine governor valve failures in the same installation, the troubleshooting that determined the root cause, and the new valve designed to prevent similar failures. The original governor valve design had been used successfully for many years in large multistage, multivalve steam turbines, but apparently was not reliable at the high steam pressures employed today....

O 29 December 2006, the national elections commission, the Aceh Independent Elections Commission (KIP), announced the offi cial results of the governor elections in the Indonesian province of Aceh: Irwandi Yusuf, representative of the former rebel movement GAM, which fought for the independence of Aceh in a civil war lasting almost 30 years, emerged as victor. The elections on 11 December 2006,...

Syntactic analyses describe grouping operations that explain how words are combined to form utterances. The nature of these operations depends on the approach. In a constituency-based approach, grouping operations are ordered, or stratified, part-whole relations. In a dependency-based approach, grouping operations identify a governor (or head), i.e. they are directed hierarchical relations betw...