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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467641503321

Autore

Seuren Pieter A. M.

Titolo

Semantic syntax / / by Pieter A. M. Seuren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

90-04-35429-8

Edizione

[Second revised edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (438 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, , 2210-6243 ; ; Volume 11

Disciplina

415.01/822

Soggetti

Semantics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Generative grammar

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The First edition of this hardback was originally published in paperback by Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK, in 1996 under ISBN 978-0-631-16006-9."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- / Pieter A. M. Seuren -- For my son Raj / Pieter A. M. Seuren -- Editor’s Foreword / Pieter A. M. Seuren -- Preface to the First Edition / Pieter A. M. Seuren -- Preface to the Second Edition / Pieter A. M. Seuren -- Introduction / Pieter A. M. Seuren -- Some Formal Properties of Grammars, Trees and Rules / Pieter A. M. Seuren -- The English Auxiliary and Complementation System / Pieter A. M. Seuren -- The French Auxiliary and Complementation System / Pieter A. M. Seuren -- The Dutch Auxiliary and Complementation System / Pieter A. M. Seuren -- The German Auxiliary and Complementation System / Pieter A. M. Seuren -- Any Other Business / Pieter A. M. Seuren.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a detailed formal machinery for the conversion of the Semantic Analyses (SAs) of sentences into surface structures of English, French, German, Dutch, and to some extent Turkish. The SAs are propositional structures consisting of a predicate and one, two or three argument terms, some of which can themselves be propositional structures. The surface structures are specified up to, but not including, the morphology. The book is thus an implementation of the programme formulated first by Albert Sechehaye (1870-1946) and



then, independently, by James McCawley (1938-1999) in the school of Generative Semantics. It is the first, and so far the only formally precise and empirically motivated machinery in existence converting meaning representations into sentences of natural languages.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464059003321

Autore

Stellner Bernhard

Titolo

Readability of quarterly reports : do companies mislead investors? / / Bernhard Stellner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, Germany : , : Anchor Academic Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-95489-648-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 p.)

Disciplina

346.73077

Soggetti

Collection laws - United States

Capitalists and financiers - United States

Stockholders - United States

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

Readability of Quarterly Reports; Table of Content; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Aim of this Work; 1.2 Structure; 2. Reporting on Financial Markets; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Purpose and Functions of Reports; 2.3 Typical Content of Reports; 2.4 Specifics of Reports at Frankfurt Stock Exchange Prime Market; 2.5 Market Functioning; 3. Stakeholder Theory; 3.1 Historical Origins; 3.2 Stakeholder Definition; 3.3 Stakeholder Groups; 3.4 Stakeholder Concept; 3.5 Relationship Between Shareholders and Managers; 4. Readability Research; 4.1 Concept of Readability

4.2 Measures of Readability4.3 Limitations of Readability Measures; 4.4 Readability of Corporate Reports; 5. Research Design; 5.1 Hypothesis Development; 5.2 Methodology; 6. Results; 6.1 Descriptive Statistics; 6.2 Hypothesis Testing; 6.3 Discussion; 6.4 Limitations; 7. Conclusio;



References and Sources

Sommario/riassunto

Financial reports can be regarded as the primary means of communication between a company's management and its shareholders. The reports also address all other kinds of stakeholders like employees, suppliers, customers, competitors, governments, potential investors, bond holders and, in a broad sense, the entire society. Still, it is questionable whether managers really deliver true information in their reports. One possible way of obscuring corporate information when results are negative, or of being forthcoming in disclosing information when results are good, is to adjust the reports' readab