Minimizers are widely acknowledged cross-linguistically to denote a minimal quantity, extent or degree. With respect minimizers in Mandarin Chinese, Shyu (Linguistics 54:1355–1395, 2016) claims that their so-called negative polarity is purely syntactically determined and facilitated by the lian…dou (‘including…all’) EVEN construction. Within framework of Dynamic Syntax (Kempson et al., syntax: ...

Lidz et al. [Lidz, J., Waxman, S., & Freedman, J. (2003). What infants know about syntax but couldn’t have learned: Experimental evidence for syntactic structure at 18 months. Cognition, 89, B65–B73.] claim experimental substantiation of an argument from the poverty of the stimulus, in the sense of Pullum and Scholz [Linguist. Rev. 19 (2002) 9]. They cite a specific feature of English— the assi...

Malicious network traffic, including widespread worm activity, is a growing threat to Internet-connected networks and hosts. In this paper, we consider two competing approaches to dynamic network intrusion detection: syntax based and semantics based approaches. For the syntax driven approach, we propose two sliding window based schemes to generate potential worm signatures automatically. Since ...