is is a summary of the author’s PhD dissertation defended on September 17, 2007 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. e results comprised in the thesis were obtained within the author’s doctoral studies in Mathematical Linguistics during the years 2001–2007. e complete dissertation is available via http://sourceforge.net/projects/elixir-fm/.

This paper reviews the structure and function of insect mechanoreceptors with respect to their cellular, subcellular, and cuticular organization. Four types are described and their function is discussed: 1, the bristles; 2, the trichobothria; 3, the campaniform sensilla; and 4, the scolopidia. Usually, bristles respond to touch, trichobothria to air currents and sound, campaniform sensilla to d...

This document presents work in progress on a lexical resource of Old Swedish. The objective is concrete — to connect word forms in real text to entries in dictionaries available in electronic format. The connection is done through a morphological component implemented in Functional Morphology. The challenge we face is to find an appropriate model of Old Swedish that is able to deal with the ric...