This paper proposes a new approach to style, arising from our work on computational media using structural blending, which enriches the conceptual blending of cognitive linguistics with structure building operations in order to encompass syntax and narrative as well as metaphor. We have implemented both conceptual and structural blending, and conducted initial experiments with poetry, including...

With its manageable size and straightforward syntax, this book is an excellent reference point for virtually all relevant graphs, definitions, and equations relating to the basic science of our speciality. After a general introduction to the method for drawing a curve, how to make definitions and how to derive an equation correctly, the book makes the reader recapitulate some essential mathemat...

Urban design problems have become so complex that no single designer is able to consider all aspects of a design area simultaneously. Lately the application of computerized and scientific methods have helped designers analyze complex problems. One of these new methods is Space Syntax. The purpose of this study is to first investigate the strengths and weaknesses of this method and then suggest ...

The Principles and Parameters approach aimed to eliminate syntactic rules and constructions in favor of general movement processes and principles, and to account for language-specific syntax by construction-independent parameters. Disappointingly, much systematic syntactic variation, including the cross-linguistic variation in passives that is the topic of this article, turned out not to be red...

Arguments regarding the reality of abstract syntactic representations have typically revolved around phenomena in which there is a striking discrepancy between the overt structure of the sentences involved and how they are interpreted. In principles & parameters approaches like Government-Binding [GB] theory and its descendent, the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1981, 1995), many syntactic phenome...

A computational framework is presented which is used to model the process by which human language learners acquire the syntactic component of their native language. The focus is feasibility is acquisition possible within a reasonable amount of time and/or with a reasonable amount of work? The approach abstracts away from specific linguistic descriptions in order to make a 'broad-stroke' predict...

Visual Modeling Languages (VMLs) are important instruments of communication between modelers and stakeholders. Thus, it is important to provide guidelines for designing VMLs. The most widespread approach for analyzing and designing concrete syntaxes for VMLs is the so-called Physics of Notation (PoN). PoN has been successfully applied in the analysis of several VMLs. However, despite its popula...

In the early years of the development of a theory of generative grammar (roughly 1955 through the early 1970s), a striking difference between the research problems that characterized the emerging field and those that had occupied its predecessors was the precipitous decline of the study of morphology. The principles of word structure can be divided roughly between those that govern the distribu...