The formation of wh-questions in Northern Norwegian seems to be an example of a syntactic phenomenon which necessarily refers to phonological structure, namely the prosodic weight of the wh-expression. The subject and verb are ‘inverted’ after polysyllabic wh-expressions, but they are not inverted after monosyllabic ones. These data are discussed in the context of Pullum & Zwicky’s (1988) hypot...

Cryptographic standards serve two important goals: making different implementations interoperable and avoiding various known pitfalls in commonly used schemes. This chapter discusses Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) which have significant impact on the use of public key cryptography in practice. PKCS standards are a set of standards, called PKCS #1 through #15. These standards cover RSA...

In recent years, there has been increased interest in examining and explaining the differential difficulty of acquisition of language modules, interfaces, operations, and constructions (Lardiere 2005, 2008; Slabakova 2006, 2008; White, 2003). For example, a recent GASLA plenary, Lardiere 2005, argued that morphological competence should be accorded a special status and highlighted its differenc...

GF (Grammatical Framework) is a Logical Framework enriched with concrete syntax speciications. Ordinary type-theoretical judgements of typing and deenitional equality specify a theory. In addition, a judgement carries a description of how to produce a string in concrete syntax. The intended principal application area of GF is natural languages. It describes formal languages just as well, althou...

A hot issue in the area of database management is to provide a high level interface for nontechnical users. An important research direction is the application of natural language interface. The paper presents an interface module that converts user’s query given in natural language into a corresponding SQL command. After clustering the input sentence, a pushdown automaton is used to verify the s...

Natural language interpretation is generally thought to be compositional, that is, the meanings of expressions are a function of the meanings of their parts and of the way the parts are syntactically combined. Theories of the syntax–semantics interface aim to articulate the details of this function. This article discusses a new research program in which psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic expe...

Among the various software tools developed in the early stages of the York Ada compiler project4 are two families of tools described here. Syntax driven generators, distinctive in their inclusion of a mechanism for syntax abstraction and their mode of adaptability, were used to produce a variety of compiler components; interface checkers, automatically generated from specifications of the info...

We describe a system for interactive modification of syntax trees by intuitive editing operations on the surface string. The system has a graphical interface, where the user can move, replace, add, and in other ways modify, words or phrases. During editing, the sentence is kept grammatical, by automatically rearranging words and changing inflection, if necessary. This is accomplished by combini...

Introduction The increasing complexity of computer systems and infrastructures asks for good solutions. The installation and configuration of all components should be valid (correct syntax), consistent and adhere to the standards of the organization. Fortunately, many configuration settings can be set with a graphical tool, making the task simpler and sometimes more intuitive. Therefore, syntax...