Recent thought on grammatical architectures have underlined some discriminating features of the syntax-semantics interface: their syntactocentric nature when syntactic structures are mapped or transduced to semantics (and phonology); or their parallel nature, when semantics (and phonology) communicates with syntax via a nondirectional (or relational) interface. This duality arises for instance ...

Using the example of Murrinh-Patha, Seiss (2011) illustrates how Australian Aboriginal languages can shed light on the morphology-syntax interface: one aspect of their polysynthetic nature is that information often encoded in phrases and clauses in other languages is instead found in a single morphological word. In this paper, we look at another instance, the Australian Aboriginal language Arre...

Arden Syntax is a widely recognized standard for representing clinical and scientific knowledge in an executable format. It has a history that reaches back until 1989 and is currently maintained by the Health Level 7 (HL7) organization. We created a production-ready development environment, compiler, rule engine and application server for Arden Syntax. Over the course of several years, we have ...

We discuss live coding audio-visual worlds for large-scale virtual reality environments. We describe Alive, an instrument allowing multiple users to develop sonic and visual behaviors of agents in a virtual world, through a browserbased collaborative code interface, accessible while being immersed through spatialized audio and stereoscopic display. The interface adds terse syntax for query-base...

Introduction* Marantz (1995) concludes the description of the Minimalist Program by saying, "Syntax reduces to a simple description of how constituents drawn from the lexicon can be combined and how movement is possible. The computational system, this simple system of composition, is constrained by a small set of economy principles, which Chomsky claims enforce the general requirement, 'do the ...

This paper investigates the Italian Word Order variation in position of subjects (S) with respect to finite predicates (V) two adult populations: L1-Italian speakers and L1-French L2-Italian speakers. We test how discourse focus (Belletti, 2001) a decomposed approach Unaccusativity, i.e., Unaccusativity Hierarchy (Sorace, 2000), determine SV/VS L1 L2 populations. The results forced-choice prefe...

Interface types are a useful concept in object-oriented programming languages like Java or C#. A clean programming style advocates relying on interfaces without revealing their implementation. Haskell’s type classes provide a closely related facility for stating an interface separately from its implementation. However, there are situations in which no simple mechanism exists to hide the identit...

Italian displays a scrambling pattern where the structure of the constituent following a postverbal focus affects which of its components can scramble before the focus . The actual governing factor is the prosodic phrasing projected by the postfocal constituent. Scrambling is only possible when it improves the stress alignment with the right boundary of the intonational phrase wrapping the sent...

We present the OWL API, a high level Application Programming Interface (API) for working with OWL ontologies. The OWL API is closely aligned with the OWL 2 structural specification. It supports parsing and rendering in the syntaxes defined in the W3C specification (Functional Syntax, RDF/XML, OWL/XML and the Manchester OWL Syntax); manipulation of ontological structures; and the use of reasonin...