1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480142303321

Titolo

"His words were nourishment and his counsel food" : a festschrift for David W. Holton / / edited by Efrosini Camatsos, Tassos A. Kaplanis and Jocelyn Pye ; Semele Assinder [and thirteen others], contributors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-5996-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

880.9

Soggetti

Greek literature, Modern - History and criticism

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKSOF DAVID W. HOLTON; INTRODUCTION; PART I; GAZES IN LOVE SCENES AND GLANCESAT THEIR DEPICTION; PERSIAN CHRONICLES, GREEK ROMANCES; NARRATIVE AS INSTRUCTIONAND THE ROLE OF THE NARRATORIN KALLIMACHOS AND CHRYSSORROI; PART II; "THAT NIGHTINGALETHAT SWEETLY MOURNS"; THE SCHOLAR IN HIS STUDY; "KASTRO SAYS..."; "AND LIKE LAMBSTHEY SLAUGHTERED THEM"; PART III; A CANON IN THE MAKING; "READING THE GRAY SKY...IN A SUN-DRENCHED TRANSLATION"; PART IV; HOLY CONFUSION; SHAKESPEARE/CAVAFY; SIR STEVEN RUNCIMANAND "THE NICEST GREEK" HE KNEW; PART V

HYPNOSIS AND EMPOWERMENTIN NIKOS KATIFORIS'S EXPRESSIONISTNOVEL, THE DICTATORSHIP OF SATANTHE OTHER WITHIN; IDENTITY IN THE WORKSOF GAZMEND KAPLLANI; CONTRIBUTORS; NAME AND TITLE INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

""His Words were Nourishment and his Counsel Food"": A Festschrift for David W. Holton brings together essays on Greek literature from medieval romances to postmodern fiction. It provides an illuminating first insight into the variety of Modern Greek literature for the general



reader, while also catering to more specialised students and scholars with new research findings and close studies of individual texts. The editors and authors, all former doctoral students of Professor Holton at Cambridg...

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484856503321

Titolo

Categories and Types in Logic, Language, and Physics : Essays dedicated to Jim Lambek on the Occasion of this 90th Birthday / / edited by Claudia Casadio, Bob Coecke, Michael Moortgat, Philip Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-54789-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 421 p. 61 illus.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 8222

Disciplina

511.3

Soggetti

Machine theory

Computer science

Computers—History

Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Theory of Computation

Computer Science Logic and Foundations of Programming

History of Computing

Computer Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Semantic Unification: A Sheaf Theoretic Approach to Natural Language -- On Residuation -- Type Similarity for the Lambek-Grishin Calculus Revisited -- NP-Completeness of Grammars Based Upon Products of Free Pregroups -- Distributional Semantics: A Montagovian View -- A Logical Basis for Quantum Evolution and Entanglement -- Learning Lambek Grammars from Proof Frames -- Multi-Sorted Residuation -- Italian Clitic Patterns in Pregroup Grammar: State of the Art -- On Associative Lambek Calculus Extended with Basic Proper Axioms --



Classical Structures Based on Unitaries -- Initial Algebras of Terms with Binding and Algebraic Structure -- Abstract Tensor Systems as Monoidal Categories -- On Canonical Embeddings of Residuated Groupoids -- L-Completeness of the Lambek Calculus with the Reversal Operation Allowing Empty Antecedents -- A Note on Multidimensional Dyck Languages -- Extended Lambek Calculi and First-Order Linear Logic -- A Categorial Type Logic -- Chasing Diagrams in Cryptography -- The Monotone Lambek Calculus Is NP-Complete -- A Mathematical Analysis of Masaccio’s Trinity -- Conjoin ability in 1-Discontinuous Lambek Calculus -- The Hidden Structural Rules of the Discontinuous Lambek Calculus.

Sommario/riassunto

For more than 60 years, Jim Lambek has been a profoundly inspirational mathematician, with groundbreaking contributions to algebra, category theory, linguistics, theoretical physics, logic and proof theory. This Festschrift was put together on the occasion of his 90th birthday. The papers in it give a good picture of the multiple research areas where the impact of Jim Lambek's work can be felt. The volume includes contributions by prominent researchers and by their students, showing how Jim Lambek's ideas keep inspiring upcoming generations of scholars.