We will attempt to show how human performance limitations on various types of syntactic embedding constructions in Germanic languages can be modelled in a relational network linguistic framework. After arguing against centralized data stores such as pushdown stacks and queues, we will demonstrate how interconnections among levels of linguistic structure can account for many of the psycholinguis...

In this article we incorporate notions of the fairness of sanctions into the standard model of public enforcement. When both the probability and magnitude of sanctions may be varied, the usual solution involves a very high sanction and a relatively low probability of enforcement if individuals are risk neutral. When the issue of fairness is added to the analysis, the optimal sanction generally ...

Sanction lists as published by national and supranational organizations contain details on sanctioned entities. Those lists have to be obeyed in order to avoid legal implications. Yet, sanction lists are of very low information quality. Nevertheless, regulatory compliance demands, that organizations check their customer master data against sanction lists. We analyze sanction lists in this contr...

In this paper, two inverse problems of Stephen kind with local (Dirichlet) boundary conditions are investigated. In the first problem only a part of boundary is unknown and in the second problem, the whole of boundary is unknown. For the both of problems, at first, analytic expressions for unknown boundary are presented, then by using these analytic expressions for unknown boundaries and bounda...

The role that constructions play in a linguistic theory has changed throughout the evolution of generative theories. Construction specific rules are common when transformations are envisioned as tree to tree operations in classical TG. On the other extreme, constructions, as well as all structural properties, are regarded as derived linguistic properties predictable from various principles in r...

Abstract This paper adopts a construction-grammar approach to multimodal meaning. We provide detailed analysis of the Before-After -construction used frequently in advertisements, cartoons and Internet memes. demonstrate that parts its generic ‘caused-change’ meaning is compositional, rendered independently from what overtly expressed by concrete instances pattern. The latter hence build on an ...

1 and suggestions of my colleague John Corcoran. The present paper is much superior to earlier versions as a result of his input. 1 1. LANGUAGE AND SPEECH ACTS In this paper I develop a system of what I understand to be illocutionary logic. In order to motivate this system and make it intelligible to the reader, I briefly sketch a philosophical basis for the system. This sketchy foundation will...