This paper provides a treatment of Polish Plural Comitative Constructions in the paradigm of HPSG in the tradition of Pollard and Sag (1994). Plural Comitative Constructions (PCCs) have previously been treated in terms of coordination, complementation and adjunction. The objective of this paper is to show that PCCs are neither instances of typical coordinate structures nor of typical complement...

In this paper, we investigate the expressivity of a series of languages describing syntactic structures, i.e. labeled ordered trees. Such a tree language states a formalism to describe certain sets of trees. We apply them to represent syntactic principles recently used in some theories of syntax. An investigation of the expressivity establishes the relationship to appropriate types of formal gr...

Resolving context differences between heterogeneous systems for global information interoperability is a challenging research issue in information technology. This paper solved the problem by suggesting a new concept of Open Information Platform (OIP) that builds on the two principles of naturalization and alienation. Following these two principles, an SCI methodology has been proposed to requi...

Internal DSLs are a special kind of DSLs that use an existing programming language as their host. To build them successfully, knowledge regarding how to modify the host language is essential. In this chapter, the author contributes six DSL design principles and 21 DSL design patterns. DSL Design principles provide guidelines that identify specific design goals to shape the syntax and semantic o...

This paper presents the Kell calculus, a family of distributed process calculi, parameterized by languages for input patterns, that is intended as a basis for studying component-based distributed programming. The Kell calculus is built around a π-calculus core, and follows five design principles which are essential for a foundational model of distributed and mobile programming: hierarchical loc...

This paper reports the findings from an interconnected set of experiments designed to assess children’s knowledge of the semantic interactions between negation and quantified NPs. Our main finding is that young children, unlike adults, systematically interpret these elements on the basis of their position in overt syntax. We argue that this observation can be derived from an interplay between f...

Syntactic theories differ with respect to how they determine the wellformedness or illformedness of a given sentence Si in a given language. One possibility is that the decision of whether Si is grammatical or not can be made by exclusively considering properties of Si ; properties of other sentences S j , Sk , ... are irrelevant. Another possibility is that properties of other sentences S j , ...