The focus of this paper is a construction which is surprisingly rarely scrutinised: the impersonal passive of the intransitive. Although it sometimes receives a brief mention in discussions of the passive, and although the impersonal passive label is often wrongly given to morpholexical impersonal constructions, there are as yet no thorough analyses of the impersonal passive available for any l...

In the course of the construction of a software system, software documents (requirements definitions, software architectures, module implementations, etc.) are produced which are written in different languages and describe (parts of) the system from different points of view. While the construction of structure–oriented editors for such documents seems to be well understood, the construction of ...

This paper presents an analysis of indirect passives in Japanese in terms of event structure and qualia structure proposed in the framework of the generative lexicon (Pustejovsky 1995). On the assumption that the event structure of the indirect passive construction is based on the causative structure, the present analysis accounts for the adversative interpretation of indirect passive sentences...

Large volume calorimeters are traditionally based on construction from high-density material or a “sandwich” construction of alternating layers of active and passive material. Dense scintillating material, made from materials such as BGO or lead-glass, is too costly to be used on a very large scale. In sandwich technology, energy resolution is often reduced due to a large fraction of the signal...

Voice constructions are usually associated with changes in the pragmatic status of the arguments of a clause, and so bear a strong resemblance to topic constructions in terms of their information structuring effects and entailments. Importantly, however, a defining criterion of voice alternations is that they morphologically monitor the changing status of the arguments of the verb, in terms of ...

Backbone-based broadcast schemes are effective in alleviating the broadcast storm problem in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). However, periodically hello packets used to maintain a backbone usually lead to extra control overhead. In this paper, passive tree-based backbone construction scheme (PTBCS) is proposed as a backbone construction scheme for MANETs. Different from other schemes, each nod...

An analysis of energy consumption per m2 housing showed that in the EU countries average value for heating is about 95 kWh/(m2) year, while Ukraine this 200-250 year. The main mechanisms reducing costs residential premises are shown and dynamics decrease to level 15 year disclosed. role «passive house» strategic building standard (nZEB) as a pioneer shown. Data on number "passive houses" built ...

For some years an intense debate regarding the building costs has been ongoing in Sweden and reducing construction costs is highly prioritised among the construction companies. At the same time, passive houses have started to appear on the Swedish market and so far the construction costs for these have been higher compared to tradition1al houses. It is therefore important to investigate the con...

passive defense is a set of civilian efforts performed to enhance deterrence, reduce vulnerability, sustain essential activities, promote national stability, and facilitate crisis management against military threats of an enemy. since in battles, sensitive and critical areas of cities are of paramount importance,it is clear that in military agressions, a large part of threats are focused on cit...

The purpose of this paper is to describe an uncommon valency operator in Wolof, the verbal morpheme –le which encodes a possessive relation between the subject and the object of a derived verb. After a brief presentation of background information to facilitate the discussion, internal possessive constructions in Wolof will be presented. First, the particularities of the “leconstruction” will be...