The perfective aspect marker in Chinese is partly functionally similar to inflectional suffixes Indo-European languages but non-inflectional and lexical nature, lying thus at the semantics–syntax interface. This provides us with opportunity compare directly syntactic semantic constraints during second language (L2) sentence processing. present study explored how L2 learners as their first (L1s)...

This study develops and empirically tests the idea that the impact of structural complexity on perfective maintenance of object-oriented software is significantly determined by the task strategy of programming teams (independent or collaborative). Two key dimensions of software structure, coupling and cohesion, were analyzed with respect to both the maintenance effort and the perceived ease-of-...

Like all software systems, databases are subject to evolution as time passes. The impact of this evolution can be vast as a change to the schema of a database can affect the syntactic correctness and the semantic validity of all the surrounding applications. In this paper, we have performed a thorough, large-scale study on the evolution of databases that are part of larger open source projects,...

This paper examines a non-canonical morphophonological vowel alternation in the roots of Russian verbs that is conditioned by aspectual information (derived imperfectivization). This aspectual morpheme is usually expressed as a suffix, but in the forms of interest appears as a vocalic nucleus in the root (whereas there is no vocalic nucleus in the perfective form). In a manner broadly compatibl...

Large software systems undergo significant evolution during their lifespan, yet often individual changes are not well documented. In this work, we seek to automatically classify large changes into various categories of maintenance tasks — corrective, adaptive, perfective, feature addition, and non-functional improvement — using machine learning techniques. In a previous paper, we found that man...

Since the work of Grice (1975), it has been widely accepted that there are two types of meaning for any given utterance: what is asserted and what is implicated. One salient example of the assertion/implication distinction involves the English conjunction and. In and-linked sentences, the and-then reading emerges naturally if the first conjunct can be interpreted as perfective. The same tempora...

This study investigated the aspect first hypothesis which claims that children initially use verbal morphology to mark aspect and not tense. Experiment 1 tested 46 two- and three-year-old children's comprehension of tense as it is marked in the auxiliary system using a sentence-to-scene matching task. Children were presented with multiple performances of the same event and asked where a charact...

We observed a new approach being adopted in the software industry that combines a business model with strong technical support. This Product Flow Model combines aspects of the Product Line model with workflow concepts for virtual enterprises. The Product Flow Model (PFM) addresses the costly ongoing maintenance of major products being delivered to customers. When such maintenance is provided by...

In a grid application, some requirements may change while the execution is in progress. This paper presents invivo enhancement, changing running grid applications, to facilitate their perfective and adaptive maintenance. Because applications in this domain are not only typically long-running, but also time-consuming to deploy, we propose a dynamic update technique that can change a running appl...

Bresnan (1994), based on data in English and Chicheŵa, proposes that the discourse function of locative inversion construction (LIC) is presentational focus, in which the referent of the NP ‘is introduced or reintroduced on the (part of the) scene referred to by the preposed locative’. Pan (1996) suggests that the discourse function of LIC in Chinese is the same. In this paper, I investigate tw...