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The Alcatraz prison, with its picturesque surroundings and fascinating life stories of its inmates, has been the subject of a number of films and publications. The authors take a closer look at the biographies of "Al Capone", Robert "Birdman" Stroud and "Mickey" Cohen. These legendary American mobsters shared not only a history at "The Rock", but also a history of neuropsychiatric diseases, ran...

One of the major motivations for a constructionbased approach to syntax is that a given rule of syntactic formation can often be associated with more than one semantic specification. For example, a pair of expressions like purple plum and alleged thief call on different rules of semantic combination. The first involves something related to intersection of sets: a purple plum is a member of the ...

It is long established that corpus-based studies force the linguist-analyst to come faceto-face with a number of phenomena that might easily be overlooked in an armchair-type study. In this article, we demonstrate the validity of this truism once again in a study of English compounding patterns. We report here on a study of word-formation patterns in words from a large corpus of British newspap...

“There is no need for us to emphasize either the fact that meaning is the crucial feature of language or the fact that it is the most intractable problem of linguistics. Semantics, the study of meaning, has a long and eminently respectable history as an activity for philosophers, logicians, grammarians, philologists and linguists, but unfortunately the obviousness of meaning of words and discou...