Case assignment is one of the most important issues in theoretical linguistics. The goal of this paper is to describe both syntactic and semantic bases for case assignment in terms of Prototype theory [1, 2] and to give an explanation for the difference in case assignment between English and Japanese by examining the Instrument Subject construction and deverbal nouns. English allows the structu...

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In rural areas there is always a lack of medical awareness. People are not aware of many diseases and even if they know the name of the disease or even the symptoms of the disease they are not aware about the prevention methods of the disease. In this paper a prototype model is designed for the social workers or leaders to spread awareness of prevention of various diseases and also the pre-caut...

State legislatures often rely on existing text when drafting new bills. Resource and expertise constraints, which often drive this copying behavior, can be taken advantage of by lobbyists and special interest groups. These groups provide model bills, which encode policy agendas, with the intent that the models become actual law. Unfortunately, model legislation is often opaque to the public–bot...

The procedural steps for developing an expert system for designing signals at isolated intersections are described and the most important development issues for each step are discussed. The steps include problem analysis and definition, preliminary prototype specification, knowledge acquisition strategy development, prototype development plan, knowledge extraction, knowledge representation, too...