1. General The research reported in this paper is part of a project called " Animacy in typology and discourse ". 1 One of the aims of this project is to investigate the role of the notion of animacy in different parts of grammar, and gender is one of the most obvious places where animacy shows up. The aim of this paper, then, is twofold. One is to consider some generalizations about gender sys...

Suppose P is a parabolic subgroup of G with Levi factor M and σ = ⊗σv a cuspidal representation ofM(A). Then Ind σ = ⊗vInd σv is a representation of G(A) which may not be irreducible, and may not even have a finite composition series. As usual an irreducible subquotient of this representation is said to be a constituent of it. For almost all v, Ind σv has exactly one constituent π ◦ v containin...

Purpose – This article aims to examine a particular sub-set of human information behavior that has been largely overlooked in the library and information science (LIS) literature; how people are socialized to create and use information. Design/methodology/approach – Naturalism and ethnomethodology were used as theoretical frameworks to examine what a group of fifth grade students were taught ab...

From the Physics point of view, time is now best described through General Relativity, as part of space-time which is a dynamical object encoding gravity. Time possesses also some intrinsic irreversibility due to thermodynamics, quantum mechanical effects... This irreversibility can look puzzling since time-like loops (and hence time machines) can appear in General Relativity (for example in th...

‘Information need’ is a notion in IR that is ubiquitous, important, and intuitively clear. So far, surprisingly, the term seems to have defied formal definition. Of course, IR can continue to prosper without a formalization of ‘information need’. Yet when a field gets more mature there comes a time that frequently used notions should be formalized to make them susceptible of scrutiny. For IR su...

This paper deals with the concept of grammatical subjecthood, and focuses on different perspectives from which this grammatical function has been defined and described in a number of linguistic schools. Properties that have been assigned to the Subject function are grouped into four dimensions (i.e. predication, mood, voice/diathesis, and theme), and it is argued that each of these Subject dime...

Recent advances in the eld of hardware veriication have raised some fresh (and some familiar) issues to do with the scope and limitations of formal proof. In this note, some of these are considered in the context of the Viper veriication project. Viper is a microprocessor designed by W. J. Cullyer, C. Pygott and J. Kershaw, of the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment of the U.K. Ministry of De...

The notion of business process is becoming increasingly important in all business and information/communication technology related disciplines, and therefore gets a lot of attention. Consequently, there is a variety of definitions as well as a variety in preciseness of definition. The research reported in this paper aims at clarifying the different understandings and unifying them in a common c...

It is well known that classical set theory is not expressive enough to adequately model categorization and prototype theory. Recent work on compositionality and concept determination showed that the quantitative solution initially offered by classical fuzzy logic also led to important drawbacks. Several qualitative approaches were thereafter tempted, that aimed at modelling membership through o...

After a critical examination of several attempts to characterize the Analytic tradition in philosophy, in the book here discussed Hanjo Glock goes on to contend thatAnalytic Philosophy is “a tradition that is held together both by ties of influence and by a family of partially overlapping features”. Here I question the need to appeal to a“family resemblance” component, arguing inste...