The i* framework is a very popular approach in the Requirements Engineering community. However, crosscutting concerns are not handled explicitly in i*, compromising the modularity and consequently the complexity and evolution of such models. To deal with the complexity of i* models, the use of structuring mechanisms has been investigated. Moreover, the i* framework has been extended to incorpor...

The explosion in the creation of text corpora in recent years suggests that the opportunity may be ripe to examine quantitative techniques for their value in semantics. The present paper aims to explore one quantitative technique with an eye toward its potential value in illuminating questions of semantic theory. It is exploratory in nature, and it will not offer definite conclusions or specifi...

This paper discusses ergative case assignment in Hindi and its interaction with aspectual verb complexes or complex predicate constructions. It is shown that ergative case is assigned by the last head in the aspectual verb complex and that ergative case on the subject of intransitive verbs denoting bodily-functions is associated with a counter-to-expectation meaning. It is then shown that aspec...

This paper examines variation in the expression of aspect both from a language-internal and a cross-linguistic perspective. We make the following proposals: (i) the morpheme already encodes the meaning of two contrasting phases; (ii) several types of event structures, including that of the Perfect, also encode a similar meaning of contrasting phases, but with particular orderings of phases spec...

This paper provides a linguistic semantic analysis of time and aspect in natural languages. On the basis of topological concepts, notions are introduced like the basic aspectual opposition between event, state and process or that of time of utterance (for the treatment of deictic categories) that are used to analyse the semantics of grammatical tenses or more general situations. This linguistic...