Traditional centralized business process management approaches pose difficulties in coping with rapid changes and evolving process models. We developed the Plural method to allow for decentralized modeling of processes. The Plural method enables process participants, rather than a centralized group of process engineers or managers, to model and maintain their processes. In previous works, we in...

T LNDERLXNG CATEGORY OF PLURAL, along with its morphological expression by way of the suffix -s, has been considered a robust, if variable, feature of African-American English grammar at least since Harrison (1884) observed that "the Negro forms the plural regularly by addition of s or 2." (225). Subsequent empirical research on different varieties of contemporary African-American Vernacular En...

Understanding how linguistic cues map to the environment is crucial for early language comprehension and may provide a way for bootstrapping and learning words. Research has suggested that learning how plural syntax maps to the perceptual environment may show a trajectory in which children first learn surrounding cues (verbs, modifiers) before a full mastery of the noun morpheme alone. The Span...

In Mexico City Spanish, plural morphology is always overtly realized but in Chilean Spanish, due to a lenition process that targets syllable-final [s], plural morphology is not always realized, and the conditions of overt realization of plural morphology are subject to both linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. In this paper we show that variability in the input for grammatical morphology ca...

BACKGROUND In low-resource settings, patients' use of multiple healthcare sources may complicate chronic care and clinical outcomes as antiretroviral therapy (ART) continues to expand. However, little is known regarding patterns, drivers and consequences of using multiple healthcare sources. We therefore investigated factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare usage among patients tak...

In order to formulate truth-conditionally satisfactor* semantics in a compositional. manner, model-iiieoretic semanticists sometimes posit morphology-semantics mismatches. Among them are Kamp and Reyle (1993), who occasionally ignore English plural morphology in constructing their analysis of anaphora. Our goal in this paper is to demonstrate that natural language morphology is a better guide f...

This paper discusses the structure that incorporates information from discourse to derive distributivity. Following a proposal by López (2009) to account for the interpretation shown in the canonical focus structure using the notion “contrast”, I suggest that the feature “contrast” assigned to the edge of CP results in distributivity to the extent that distributivity occurs if and only if predi...

When using existential constructions to introduce plural NPs (e.g., there are dishes in the sink), speakers have the option of using a plural or singular form of the verb. In other words, speakers can use agreeing (plural) or non-agreeing (singular) forms of the verb when the NP is plural. Previous research reveals that non-agreement under existential there is the norm, even in standard varieti...