Binary weapons: the monster is loose

Covert Emotive Modality Is a Monster

It has been argued that attitude verbs shift reference of indexicals in the embedded clauses in some languages (Schlenker 1999, 2003; Anand and Nevins 2004). I argue that not only overt attitude predicates but implicit emotive modality is a context shifting operator which changes context parameters. I base my argument on the following three mono-clausal constructions: i) fake past; ii) fake pre...

The “monster” Study

The diagnosogenic (semantogenic) theory for the onset of stuttering was initially proposed by Wendell Johnson in the early 1940s. It suggested that calling attention to a child’s normal hesitations (repetitions) could precipitate stuttering (Bloodstein, 1987). Some of the evidence that Johnson used to support this theory (e.g., certain tribes of American Indians, in which there appeared to be n...

Taming the Cookie Monster

Computing in the Monster

We give a survey of computational methods and results concerning the Monster sporadic simple group. There are now three computer constructions of the Monster which are proving effective in answering real questions about this group. The first construction over the field of two elements is the fastest for calculations, and has been used to show the group is a Hurwitz group. The second constructio...

On the Rosenberger Monster

In this paper we obtain structure results for the largest finite generalized triangle group that has been called the Rosenberger Monster. These structure results are motivated by their application for finding various homological functors for this group.