To account for the semi-free word order of French, Unification Categorial Grammar is extended in two ways. First, verbal valencies are contained in a set rather than in a list. Second, type-raised NP's are described as two-sided functors. The new framework does not overgenerate i.e., it accepts all and only the sentences which are grammatical. This follows partly from the elimination of false l...

This article explores how today’s post-modern, interdependent European system of order interacts with a competing system led by a modern, realist Russian Federation. Russia’s great power identity is based on a long-standing statist tradition of foreign policy thinking combined with a legacy of conviction in the uniqueness of Eurasian civilization. Key to meeting the Russian challenge is systemi...

Given P and P ′, equally sized planar point sets in general position, we call a bijection from P to P ′ crossing-preserving if crossings of connecting segments in P are preserved in P ′ (extra crossings may occur in P ′). If such a mapping exists, we say that P ′ crossing-dominates P , and if such a mapping exists in both directions, P and P ′ are called crossing-equivalent. The relation is tra...

in this paper, we introduce a new kind of order, cesaro supermodular order, which includes supermodular order and stochastic order. for this new order, we show that it almost fulfils all desirable properties of a multivariate positive dependence order that have been proposed by joe (1997). also, we obtain some relations between it with other orders. finally, we consider different issues related...