Abstract We investigate the syntax of hitherto understudied phenomenon first conjunct clitic doubling, with reference to Modern Greek. argue that it provides crucial evidence against movement-based approaches which would incorrectly rule out doubling as a violation Coordinate Structure Constraint. This argument movement is complemented by from binding, showing doubled DPs consistently occupy th...

The existence of null arguments in Athabascan languages, and other polysynthetic languages, is a debated topic. We argue that, if the agreement on the verb is the argument, the so-called Pronominal Argument Hypothesis, languages such as Navajo do not have null arguments in the traditional sense. We then outline the diachrony of Athabascan object marking on the verb (by looking at the various co...

Communicating in secure way is, in general, synonymous of encrypting the traffic, but this is not really true in practice. If a person wants to comunicate a secret to another one is better hiding the message in an innocuos object as a mp3, mpeg and a jpg. This paper presents an overview of information hiding in general, steganography and copyright marking in particular. Several techniques to hi...

This paper describes a new garbage collection scheme for large persistent object stores that makes efficient use of the disk and main memory. The heap is divided into partitions that are collected independently using information about inter-partition references. We present efficient techniques to maintain this information stably using auxiliary data structures in memory and the log. The result ...

Traditional IP network offer users best-effort service. In this model, all user packets compete equally for network resources. Much attention is being given to developing IP QoS (Quality of Service), which allows network operators to offer differing levels of treatment to user packers. In this article, we investigate QoS interaction provisioning between MPEG-4 video applications and IP DifJerv ...

The interaction between intonational marking (focus) and domain restriction in adverbial quantiication has been a matter of debate for a number of years. Most theories assume some semantic representation of focus that innuences the interpretation of quantiiers. Views on this interdependence range from a direct mapping of descriptive content between the two representations to a more indirect int...

We present a general storage model that reflects features of object oriented (OO) languages with pure reference semantics. Based on this model, we develop an OO Separation Logic (OOSL) to specify and verify OO programs. Many inference rules in the Separation Logic still hold in OOSL. Additionally, OOSL has certain properties important to OO reasoning. We introduce HoareTriple for a small OO lan...

Focusing on the Foto dialect of Dschang (Yemba), an understudied Grassfields Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, this paper offers a cross-linguistic perspective Cognate Objects (CO). An argument analysis COs is supported by both comparison, e.g. forms corresponding wh-questions, compatibility with strong determiners, quantifiers and possessors, ability to be pronominalized relativized, Dschang-...

Using a self-paced reading task, the present study investigates how highly proficient second language (L2) speakers of German with English as their native language process unambiguous wh-subject-extractions and wh-object-extractions in German. Previous monolingual research has shown that English and German exhibit different processing preferences for the type of wh-question under investigation,...

An eye-tracking experiment examined whether prosodic cues can affect the interpretation of grammatical functions in the absence of clear morphological information. German listeners were presented with scenes depicting three potential referents while hearing temporarily ambiguous SVO and OVS sentences. While case marking on the first noun phrase (NP) was ambiguous, clear case marking on the seco...