English resultative expressions have been a major focus of research on the syntax-semantics interface. The present paper argues that a family of related constructions is required to account for their distribution. We demonstrate that a number of generalizations follow from the semantics of the constructions we posit: the syntactic argument structure of the sentence is predic ted by general prin...

Hidden algebra is a behavioural algebraic specification formalism for objects. It captures their constructional aspect, concerned with the initialisation and evolution of their states, as well as their observational aspect, concerned with the observable b ehaviour of such states. When attention is restricted to the observational aspect, final/cofree constructions provide suitable denotations fo...

We present a new self-reproducing cellular automaton capable of construction and computation beyond self-reproduction. Our automaton makes use of some of the concepts developed by Langton for his self-reproducing automaton, but provides the added advantage of being able to perform independent constructional and computational tasks alongside self-reproduction. Our automaton is capable, like Lang...

The electronic industry has always set for the highest standards in quality and reliability. To ensure the reliability of final semiconductor products, evaluation and characterization at process development and product stage are conducted. In this paper, constructional analysis (CA) technique is used as a tool to determine failure mode in QFN stacked die package that will affect reliability. Th...

The so-called Big Mess Construction (BMC) (e.g. so prominent a punctuation), introduced by a limited set of degree words, places an adjectival expression in the predeterminer position. In movement approaches, such idiosyncratic properties of the BMC have been attributed to the interaction of functional projections and movement operations, whereas in surface-oriented analyses focus has been plac...

This paper describes experiments to find attitudinal expressions in written English text. The experiments are based on an analysis of text with respect to not only the vocabulary of content terms present in it (which most other approaches use as a basis for analysis) but also on structural features of the text as represented by presence of function words (in other approaches often removed by st...

Constructional apraxia is a neuropsychological and neurological impairment in activities such as building, assembling, and drawing. In this study data is presented on the performance of left and right hemisphere single focal stroke lesion participants on drawing tasks of houses, trees, and persons. Forty-one participants completed a comprehensive neuropsychological battery including the house-t...

This paper tests the usefulness of the category ‘intonation phrase’ for the analysis of natural conversation. It asks whether the intonation phrase is a relevant unit for participants, and if so, whether it is a prosodic, or indeed an interactional category. The data show that while participants do divide their speech into intonation phrase-like chunks, these chunks are not defined by intonatio...