The evidential basis of linguistic argumentation / / edited by András Kertész, Csilla Rákosi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910806249403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 90-272-7055-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Collana: Studies in Language Companion Series, , 0165-7763 ; ; Volume 153
• Disciplina: 410.1
• Soggetti: Linguistic models - Data processing; Linguistic analysis (Linguistics); Linguistics - Research - Methodology; Corpora (Linguistics); Computational linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The Evidential Basis of Linguistic Argumentation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Chapter 1.Introduction; 1. The aim of the volume; 2. On the state of the art; 3. On the p-model; 4. The structure of the book; Acknowledgements; References; Part I.The methodological framework; Chapter 2.The p-model of data and evidence in linguistics; 1. The problem; 2. A possible solution to (P)(a): The p-model; 2.1 Introductory remarks; 2.2 The uncertainty of information: Plausible statements; 2.3 Obtaining new information from uncertain information: Plausible inferences; 2.4 The p-context and the p-context-dependency of plausible inferences2.5 Problems, their solution and their resolution; 2.6 The problem solving process; 2.6.1 Plausible argumentation; 2.6.2 Problem-solving strategies; 2.7 The solution to (P)(a); 3. A possible solution to (P)(b): The p-model's concepts of 'data' and 'evidence'; 3.1 Data; 3.2 Evidence; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Part II. Object-theoretical applications; Chapter 3.The plausibility of approaches to syntactic alternation of Hungarian verbs; Chapter 4.; Methods and argumentation in historical linguistics; 1. Introduction2. Argumentation in historical linguistics; 2.1 Quantitative and qualitative data in historical research; 2.2 Frequency; 2.3 Analogy; 2.4 Summary; 3. A case study; 3.1 The starting p-context: Three accounts of the morphological development of the Catalan periphrastic perfective past; 3.1.1 Colon (1978a, b); 3.1.2 Detges (2004); 3.1.3 Juge (2006); 3.2 Extension of the starting p-context: The historical present; 3.3 Coordination of the extended p-context; 4. Modification of the p-context and comparison of the rival solutions; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; Historical sources; ReferencesChapter 5.Hungarian verbs of natural phenomena with explicit and implicit subject arguments; 1. Introduction: Aims and the organisation of the chapter; 2. The rivalling approaches in the starting p-context: On the subjectlessness of verbs of natural phenomena in Hungarian; 2.1 Magyar Értelmező Kéziszótár (Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian) (Pusztai 2003); 2.2 Magyar Grammatika (Hungarian grammar) (Keszler 2000); 2.3 Lexical-functional grammar (Komlósy 1994); 2.4 A generative syntactic analysis (Tóth 2001); 2.5 The evaluation of the starting p-context; 3. Extending the starting p-context with new data4. Extending the p-context with results of previous research into implicit arguments in Hungarian; 4.1 Definition of implicit arguments and their occurrence in Hungarian; 4.2 Compatible rivalling proposals; 4.3 Non-compatible rivalling approaches; 5. Modification of the p-context: The occurrence of verbs of natural phenomena with implicit subject arguments in Hungarian; 6. The resolution of the starting p-problem in the modified p-context: The advantages of the analysis of verbs of natural phenomena with implicit and explicit subject arguments; Acknowledgements
• Sommario/riassunto: This chapter provides a survey about the most frequent methods of inconsistency resolution in Optimality Theory. With the help of the p-model, inconsistencies in OT are divided into two main groups. The first group includes conflicts that are deemed to be fatal and are solved usually by the modification of the theory: namely, clashes between "linguistic data" (acceptability judgements) and applications of the model (results of the evaluation procedure). The second group consists of conflicts that are, in contrast, tolerable in the view of OT theorists: inconsistencies between constraints and t

Statistical Physics of Non Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena / / by Yves Pomeau, Minh-Binh Tran

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910373931903321
• Autore: Pomeau Yves
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
• ISBN: 3-030-34394-4
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2019.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 967
• Disciplina: 530.42
• Soggetti: Statistical physics; Differential equations, Partial; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems; Partial Differential Equations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Part I Statistical Physics of the Interaction of a Single Atom or Ion with Radiation -- Introduction -- The Kolmogorov Equation for a Two-Level System -- The Statistical Theory of Shelving -- Summary, Conclusion and Appendix of Part 1 -- Part II Statistical Physics of Dilute Bose Gases -- Introduction -- Quantum Boltzmann Equations -- Formation of Singularities -- Hydrodynamic Approximations -- Equilibrium Properties of a Dilute Bose Gas with Small Coupling at First Order -- Mathematical Analysis of the Coupling Condensate -Thermal Cloud Systems. .
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides an introduction to topics in non-equilibrium quantum statistical physics for both mathematicians and theoretical physicists. The first part introduces a kinetic equation, of Kolmogorov type, which is needed to describe an isolated atom (actually, in experiments, an ion) under the effect of a classical pumping electromagnetic field which keeps the atom in its excited state(s) together with the random emission of fluorescence photons which put it back into its ground state. The quantum kinetic theory developed in the second part is an extension of Boltzmann's classical (non-quantum) kinetic theory of a dilute gas of quantum bosons. This is the source of many interesting fundamental questions, particularly because, if the ; temperature is low enough, such a gas is known to have at equilibrium a transition, the Bose–Einstein transition, where a finite portion of the particles stay in the quantum ground state. An important question considered is how a Bose gas condensate develops in time if its energy is initially low enough.