It is commonly accepted that morphological dependencies are finite-state in nature. We argue that the upper bound on morphological expressivity is much lower. Drawing on technical results from computational phonology, we show that a variety of morphotactic phenomena are tierbased strictly local and do not fall into weaker subclasses such as the strictly local or strictly piecewise languages. Si...

Pretty printers are tools for formatting structured text. A recently taken algebraic approach has lead to a systematic design of pretty printers. Wadler has proposed such an algebraic pretty printer together with an implementation for the lazy functional language Haskell. The original design causes exponential complexity when literally used in a strict language. This note recalls some propertie...

Anthropological interest in secrecy and silence – related aspects such as lying, knowledge, memory, forgetting has been long precarious. Through what may be called personal anthropology, this article, I describe both private professional anthropological experiences including family memories, fieldwork sites, academic practices. By recalling state socialist ideology, censorship, secrets, illustr...

We consider a nonlinear transport equation as a hyperbolic generalisation of the well-known reaction diiusion equation. We show the existence of strictly monotone travelling fronts for the three main types of the nonlinearity: the positive source term, the combustion law, and the bistable case. In the rst case there is a whole interval of possible speeds containing its strictly positive minimum...