A new application for raising in HPSG: complex prepositions

One of the most popular techniques used in HPSG-based studies to describe linguistic phenomena is the raising mechanism. Besides ordinary raising verbs or adjectives, this tool has been applied for handling verbal complexes and discontinuous constituents, among other phenomena. In this paper, a new application for raising within the HPSG paradigm will be discussed, thereby investigating data from the prepositional domain. We will analyze linguistic properties of word combinations in German consisting of a preposition, a noun, and another preposition (such as auf Grund von (‘by virtue of’)), thus arguing that raising is the most appropriate method for satisfactorily describing the crucial syntactic features which are typical for those expressions. The objective of this paper is thus to demonstrate the efficiency of the raising mechanism as used in HPSG, and therefore, to emphasize the importance of designing a satisfactory uniform theory of raising within this grammar framework

The Syntax of “Complex Prepositions” in German: An HPSG Approach

Many modern languages commonly use expressions that seem unpredictable regarding standard grammar regularities. Among these expressions, sequences consisting of a preposition, a noun, another preposition, and another noun are particularly frequent. The issue of these expressions, usually termed in linguistic literature as "complex prepositions", "phrasal prepositions" or "preposition-like word formations", can certainly be considered to be a cross-linguistic problem (On "complex prepositions" in German and in other languages see (Benes 1974), (Buscha 1984)}, (Lindqvist 1994), (Meibauer 1995), (Quirk and Mulholland 1964), (Wollmann 1996). In this paper, I will focus exclusively on German data, because they provide very explicit and convincing linguistic evidence which motivates and supports my approach. However, I assert that the analysis proposed here for German can also be applied to other languages such as Polish or English

Using Corpus Statistics in the Modeling of Linguistic Paradigms

This paper presents how corpus statistics can be used to verify complex inflectional paradigms. This will be demonstrated using a set of traditionally assumed inflectional paradigms of third person personal pronouns in Polish

A New Application for Raising in HPSG: Complex Prepositions

One of the most popular techniques used in HPSG-based studies to describe linguistic phenomena is the raising mechanism. Besides ordinary raising verbs or adjectives, this tool has been applied for handling verbal complexes and discontinuous constituents, among other phenomena. In this paper, a new application for raising within the HPSG paradigm will be discussed, thereby investigating data from the prepositional domain. We will analyze linguistic properties of word combinations in German consisting of a preposition, a noun, and another preposition (such as auf Grund von (‘by virtue of’)), thus arguing that raising is the most appropriate method for satisfactorily describing the crucial syntactic features which are typical for those expressions. The objective of this paper is thus to demonstrate the efficiency of the raising mechanism as used in HPSG, and therefore, to emphasize the importance of designing a satisfactory uniform theory of raising within this grammar framework

Neutrino oscillations in the front form of Hamiltonian dynamics

Since future, precise theory of neutrino oscillations should include the understanding of the neutrino mass generation and a precise, relativistic description of hadrons, and observing that such a future theory may require Dirac's FF of Hamiltonian dynamics, we provide a preliminary FF description of neutrino oscillations using the Feynman--Gell-Mann-Levy version of an effective theory in which leptons interact directly with whole nucleons and pions, instead of with quarks via intermediate bosons. The interactions are treated in the lowest-order perturbative expansion in the coupling constants in the effective theory, including a perturbative solution of the coupled constraint equations. Despite missing quarks and their binding mechanism, the effective Hamiltonian description is sufficiently precise for showing that the standard oscillation formula results from the interference of amplitudes with different neutrinos in virtual intermediate states. This holds provided that the inherent experimental uncertainties of preparing beams of incoming and measuring rates of production of outgoing particles are large enough for all of the different neutrino intermediate states to contribute as alternative virtual paths through which the long-baseline scattering process can manifest itself. The result that an approximate, effective FF theory reproduces the standard oscillation formula at the level of transition rates for currently considered long-baseline experiments--even though the space-time development of scattering is traced differently and the relevant interaction Hamiltonians are constructed differently than in the commonly used IF of dynamics--has two implications. It shows that the common interpretation of experimental results is not the only one, and it opens the possibility of considering more precise theories taking advantage of the features of the FF that are not available in the IF.Comment: revtex4, 10 page

National Academic Conference – Financial Crime in Poland

This is a speech by superintendent Tomasz Trawinski, the regional police commander in Poznań, who opened the first of the series of conferences devoted to the history of financial crime in Poland. The present threat of escalating financial crime is not only the concern of the agencies established for fighting this abnormality but also of other institutions which can potentially be of help in fulfilling this task. In this field, the Polish police is open to new forms of cooperation and one of them is the collaboration with academic and scientific centres

The possibility to use a vibration signal to estimate a state of rolling bearings after operation

In the article the construction of the test bench for the durability test of the friction couplings was showed. The properties of the tested tribological pairs are fully described, i.e. chemical constitution, kind of material and the results of the surface topography tests of basic material and with lubricant micropockets. The methodology and scope of the preliminary tests, including observation of course of changes in vibration signals on the housing of the pin-on-disc tester, for different load values and tribological couplings, i.e. with textured or non-textured surface. The vibroacustic research was carried out with industrial unit CSI 2130 by Emerson and with vibration sensor A0760GP. Comparative analysis of vibration signals and amplitude-frequency spectrums was performed for chosen work conditions of the tribological pair. Finally, the possibility to use the measurement of vibration signal to predict a seizure of the tribological pair was described and directions for further research were given