This paper discusses language variation from a minimalist perspective. Building on work from MacDonald (2006, 2008a,b), I discuss a clustering of inner aspectual properties from English eventive predicates, which Russian lacks. Interestingly, English statives also lack this cluster. I offer an account for the presence vs. absence of this aspectual cluster in terms of the presence vs. absence of...

Successful Architecting in-the-large, namely across various architecture genres and domains of application, will require Architecture Description in-the-large. This position paper addresses the issues of the workshop from insights of Architecture Description, as those ideas have evolved from Software Architecture. It is a heretical or minimalist approach maintaining that for the most part Archi...

This paper presents a dynamic model of consumer choice incorporating consumption externalities. The model is deliberately minimalist and symmetric, so that there are no endogenous or exogenous factors causing consumers in aggregate to favour one particular commodity rather than another. Yet, the results of simulations show that remarkable switches and reswitches in patterns of demand can arise ...

This article summarizes and analyzes the origin, development, evolution of minimalist movement, as well its impact on various aspects landscape design. Taking works Peter Walker an example, it characteristics design provides overview development process minimalism in The purpose is to clarify evolutionary movement since 1970s, analyze new developments 21st century, predict possible future direc...

100-word abstract §1 gives a preliminary explanation of the concept of reference. §2 is an analysis of descriptivism, the first systematic theory of reference. §3 begins with criticisms of descriptivism, and then details the development of the causal-historical theory of reference, which has been the orthodox view of reference since the 1970s. §4 is an exposition of three concepts that play maj...

This paper describes a minimalist hopping robot that can perform basic exploration tasks on Mars or other moderate gravity bodies. We show that a single actuator can control the vehicle’s jumping and steering operations, as well as the panning of an on-board camera. Our novel thrusting linkage also leads to good system efficiency. The inherent minimalism of our hopping paradigm offers interesti...