1 § Introduction In this paper, I will confront the split CP model (Rizzi 1997 and subsequent work) and the criterial framework proposed by Rizzi (2004c) with two empirical problems. Firstly, I will consider a peculiar Italian construction (see (1)b), previously described and analysed by Benincà (1988:137-139 and 2001) and Benincà and Poletto (2004), which seems to mix up the interpretative and...

In this paper we describe a system for generating textual narrations of what happened in a simulation-based serious game, focusing on the use of focalization (telling the story from the perspective of one of the characters) and flashbacks to give the player insights into the internal state of non-player characters.

These days competition is played in an environment characterized by high market shifting, rapid development as well as introduction of new technologies, global competition and customer needs focalization. Therefore, manufacturing environments are becoming more dynamic and turbulent than ever before. Traditional manufacturing facilities, however, are not able to cope with such environments, as n...

The multiple nominative (MNCs) and accusative constructions (MACs) that do not have their GEN counterparts will not be dealt with in this chapter, such as psych-verb construction like, nay-ka/*-uy Chelswuka chota ‘I am fond of Chelswu’. See Yang (1994), also Park (1995) for an RRG analysis of this construction. In contrast to their analysis, Kuno (1973) mentions objective ga as in (i) below bes...

This paper introduces the narrative network as a device for representing patterns of “technology in use.” The narrative network offers a novel conceptual vocabulary for the description of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their relationship to organizational forms. We argue that as ICTs have become increasingly modular and recombinable, so have organizational processes and f...

In this paper we study topology of the variety of closed pla-nar n-gons with given side lengths l1,. .. , ln. The moduli space M ℓ where ℓ = (l1,. .. , ln), encodes the shapes of all such n-gons. We describe the Betti numbers of the moduli spaces M ℓ as functions of the length vector ℓ = (l1,. .. , ln). We also find sharp upper bounds on the sum of Betti numbers of M ℓ depending only on the num...

The propagation properties of transverse localized structures are studied experimentally and numerically, showing that their free-space behavior is determined by the features acquired during the nonlinear light-matter interaction at their origin. For a Kerr-like nonlinearity in the optical loop, localized structures show a focalization followed by the formation of a local minimum of the intensi...