Rust, as being a systems programming language, offers memory safety with zero cost and without any runtime penalty unlike other languages like C, C++ or Cyclone. System programming languages are mainly used for low level tasks such as design of operating system components, web browsers, game engines and time critical missions like signal processing. Main disadvantages of the existing systems la...

On the basis of a detailed study of the relativization phenomena in the dialects of Sasak and Sumbawa in eastern Indonesia, this paper shows that the two crucial assumptions made by Keenan & Comrie on Western Malayo-Polynesian languages are untenable. That is, the Topic in these languages cannot be reinterpreted as Subject and that Austronesian non-Actor focus constructions cannot be considered...

This article provides an overview of the phonology of Mayan languages. The principal aim is to describe the commonalities and differences between phonological systems in the Mayan family. I have also tried to highlight some phonological patterns which are interesting from a typological or theoretical perspective. There are many intriguing aspects of Mayan phonology which remain understudied; I’...

Altogether 22 lectures and 2 working groups covered various aspects of new trends in database languages. Areas of particular interest were foundations of database languages and extensions of the standard languages. The participants appreciated the outstanding local organization and the environment including all Dagstuhl facilities which enabled a successful workshop. The seminar has its own web...

Some languages have a fixed subject position, while others are more flexible. Languages like English require pre-verbal subjects; Spanish allow subjects in postverbal position. Because this difference clusters with several linguistic properties distinguishing the two languages, and been perennial issue theory, touching central problems EPP, nature of cross-linguistic variation, relationship bet...

Starting with version 3.2, Unicode includes virtually all of the standard characters used in mathematics. This set supports a variety of math applications on computers, including document presentation languages like TeX, math markup languages like MathML and OpenMath, internal representations of mathematics in systems like Mathematica, Maple, and MathCAD, computer programs, and plain text. This...

We present Strabon, a new RDF store that supports the state of the art semantic geospatial query languages stSPARQL and GeoSPARQL. To illustrate the expressive power offered by these query languages and their implementation in Strabon, we concentrate on the new version of the data model stRDF and the query language stSPARQL that we have developed ourselves. Like GeoSPARQL, these new versions us...

We present Strabon, a new RDF store that supports the state of the art semantic geospatial query languages stSPARQL and GeoSPARQL. To illustrate the expressive power offered by these query languages and their implementation in Strabon, we concentrate on the new version of the data model stRDF and the query language stSPARQL that we have developed ourselves. Like GeoSPARQL, these new versions us...