The project Linguistic Portrait of Georgia envisages various aspects of documentation of Georgian linguistic reality by means of corpus methodologies. This title is an umbrella for three large-scale projects within the framework of which The Georgian Dialect Corpus – GDC (http://corpora.co) was developed. Presently, the architecture and text base of the corpus have been designed, being permanen...

Pregroup grammars with a possibly infinite number of lexical entries are polynomial if the length of type assignments for sentences is a polynomial in the number of words. Polynomial pregroup grammars are shown to generate the standard mildly context sensitive formal languages as well as some context sensitive natural language fragments of Dutch, SwissGerman or Old Georgian. A polynomial recogn...

While Western nations remain strongly wedded to Cold War era controls on weapons exports, to ensure that problem regimes do not procure advanced weapons technology, Russian and Chinese industries and those of many former Soviet republics operate without such constraints, as long as their national governments do not object to the sale on other grounds. The problem is multi-dimensional and presen...

Dorothy and Roy Porter's book splendidly fulfills their intention to make it patientorientated and they trawl an impressive range of contemporary sources to do so. They show that personal confidence in a medical practitioner invariably weighed heavily and provide a corrective chapter, 'The Doctor's Point of View', lest readers imagine practitioners supinely accepted criticism and slights, distr...