The meaning of various categories of poverty during the Progressive Era is analyzed by looking at the ways in which relief organizations in New York City described and treated their clientele. Data come from categorical descriptions of types of eligible clients which were listed in the 1907 edition of the New York City Charity Directory by relief organizations operating in that city. The meanin...

This article is concerned with the relationship of language and city in Amir Naderi’s trilogy of films on New York, comprising of Manhattan by Numbers (1993), A, B, C… Manhattan (1997), and Marathon (2002). By dint of a narrative relied on spatiality, he is in fact able to causally link the solitude and the spectral existence of his protagonists to the lack of a common language for reco...

The scope of this study was to analyze the discourse of managers regarding the relationship between the organization of the health services and tuberculosis care management in a city in the metropolitan region of João Pessoa, State of Pernambuco. Using qualitative research in the analytical field of the French line of Discourse Analysis, 16 health workers who worked as members of the management...

Myiasis is the infestation of organs and tissues of human and animals with fly larvae. This article reports an 18 year-old man with urogenital myiasis, the passing of live Megaselia scalaris larvae in the urine, from Zanjan City, northwest of Iran. We discourse the importance of diagnosis and management of urogenital myiasis in medicine.

This paper describes the discourse parsing system developed at Dublin City University for participation in the CoNLL 2015 shared task. We participated in two tasks: a connective and argument identification task and a sense classification task. This paper focuses on the latter task and especially the sense classification for implicit connectives.

This dissertation examines the free word order or scrambling phenomena in German and Korean from the perspective of constraint interaction in Optimality Theory To overcome the problems raised in single component analyses in explaining word order variation I propose an interface approach in which the constraints from several di erent components of grammar participate compete and interact with on...