This paper deals with the concept of grammatical subjecthood, and focuses on different perspectives from which this grammatical function has been defined and described in a number of linguistic schools. Properties that have been assigned to the Subject function are grouped into four dimensions (i.e. predication, mood, voice/diathesis, and theme), and it is argued that each of these Subject dime...

machine can be interpreted together as representing a list of items. (Maier and Hovy, 1991) The next class of relations are referred to as interpersonal relations. Each relation in this class has its own specific effect on the reader. For example, to convince or motivate the reader to do something. They are, therefore, similar to Mann and Thompson’s (Mann and Thompson, 1988) presentational rela...

The paper presents a social semiotic multimodal framework for the analysis of website interactivity. Distinguishing it from interaction, the work defines interactivity as the affordance of a text of being acted (up)on. It is actualized digitally in interactive sites/signs (hyperlinks included), having a two-fold nature, as places enabling actions producing effects and as forms endowed with mean...

Detailed composition measurements can be a very powerful means of tracing origins, a fact used regularly by forensic scientists and art historians. One of the main motivating factors for making detailed observations of cosmic rays was always the hope that a unique compositional signature could be found which pointed unambiguously to a particular source. This has proven much harder than expected...

1 Marker gene sequencing of microbial communities has generated big datasets 2 of microbial relative abundances varying across environmental conditions, sam3 ple sites and treatments. These data often come with putative phylogenies, 4 providing unique opportunities to investigate how shared evolutionary history 5 a ects microbial abundance patterns. Here, we present a method to identify the 6 p...

The biplot is a widely and powerful methodology used with multidimensional data sets to describe and display the relationships between observations and variables in an easy way. Compositional data consist of positive vectors each of which is constrained to have a constant sum; due to this property standard biplots can not be performed with compositional data, instead of a previous transformatio...

This paper documents the results of in situ analysis of 306 lava paving stones and 74 possible source rocks using pXRF. Data were collected from sites both in the city of Rome—on major roads beyond the city (including the Viae Flaminia, Cassia, Clodia, Praenestina and Appia)—and in the city of Ostia. Comparison of the pXRF data with lava compositional data from the geological literature allows ...

The study analyzes the components of advertising spending for a group of European countries with stable total advertising spending over the period 1994-2007. Three components of advertising spending were considered: Electronic, Print, and Online. Our main objective was to study how the components were restructured within the period under study and to find clusters of similar countries. A specif...

the closed nature of geochemical data has been proven in many studies. compositional data have special properties that mean that standard statistical methods cannot be used to analyse them. these data imply a particular geometry called aitchison geometry in the simplex space. for analysis, the dataset must first be opened by the various transformations provided. one of the most popular of the a...

Abstract This article is a summary of the newly published book New Developments Ecological Discourse Analysis . On premise reviewing overall development ecolinguistics, this firstly develops Hallidayan approach and defines as an independent paradigm. Based on guiding principle ecosophy, “Diversity Harmony, Interaction Co-existence”, it then expands extends experiential, interpersonal, textual, ...