Software maintenance constitutes a major phase of the software life cycle. Studies indicate that software maintenance is responsible for a significant percentage of a system’s overall cost and effort. The software engineering community has identified four major types of software maintenance, namely, corrective, perfective, adaptive, and preventive maintenance. Software maintenance can be seen f...

As is well-known, wh-phrases in Mandarin Chinese can be used as interrogative pronouns, existential indefinites, or universal quantifiers, and regardless of which interpretation they receive, they remain in-situ at S-Structure. In addition, it is not the case that these different usages are freely available in all contexts, as illustrated by the following examples. (1)ta mai sheme shu she buy w...

This paper revisits the aspectual under-extension found in children’s production data, in which children preferentially link telic predicates with perfective/past morphology and atelic predicates with imperfective/present morphology. I argue that these aspectual groupings reflect a deep property of linguistic/conceptual organization and are manifested in various ways throughout the lifespan. Th...

Abstract This paper presents my manual skeleton parsing on a sample text of approximately 100,000 word tokens (or about 2,500 sentences) taken from the PFR Chinese Corpus with a clearly defined parsing scheme of 17 constituent labels. The manually-parsed sample skeleton treebank is one of the very few extant Chinese treebanks. While Chinese part-of-speech tagging and word segmentation have been...

Notions like markedness, competition, underspecification, context sensitivity and pragmatic implicatures play an important role in traditional Slavic aspectology. I propose in this paper to give these somewhat vague theoretical constructs a more explicit status within the framework of bidirectional optimality theory (BiOT), introduced in (Blutner 1998, 2000). Blutner’s BiOT can merge these elem...

This paper contains an investigation of some aspects of Romanian modality constructed with auxiliaries. These forms can be combined either with the infinitive, or with overt (imperfective /perfective) aspectual morphology. In the latter case, they might give rise to interpretations which have been classified in Romanian grammars as presumptive (broadly described as referring to probability, unc...

Software can be considered an organizations asset, because it evolves and incorporates value as business rules change. So, it is important that good techniques be used in software development, in order to assure that its lifecyle is extended. One of these techniques is Design Rationale, which documents all the project decisions made during software development in order to ease revision, mainten...