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Record Nr.

UNISA996411332403316

Autore

Fleischhauer Jens

Titolo

Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface / / Jens Fleischhauer, Rainer Osswald, Anja Latrouite

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2021

Düsseldorf : , : düsseldorf university press, , [2016]

©2021

ISBN

3-11-072029-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Collana

Studies in Language and Cognition ; ; 3

Soggetti

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY -- Linguistic Categories and the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Evaluating Competing Approaches -- Why Verb Meaning Matters to Syntax -- Representing Constructional Schemata in the FunGramKB Grammaticon -- Multilingualism, Multilectalism and Register Variation in Linguistic Theory - Extending the Diasystematic Approach -- RRG and the Exploration of Syntactically Based Relativistic Effects -- CASE STUDIES THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE -- Head-Marking and Agreement: Evidence from Yucatec Maya -- Degree Expressions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface -- Volition in Grammar and Lexical Representation of Verbs: The Case of Kabardian Involuntative -- Direct versus Inverse in Murik-Kopar -- Shifting Perspectives: Case Marking Restrictions and the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface -- Notes on "Noun Phrase Structure" in Tagalog -- Integrated and Non-Integrated Left Dislocation: A Comparative Study of LD in Avatime, Tundra Yukaghir & Whitesands

Sommario/riassunto

The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions.



The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and its syntactic realization to the study of specific grammatical phenomena in a number of typologically diverse languages, including Yucatec Maya, Kabardian, Tagalog, Murik-Kopar, Avatime, Whitesands, Tundra Yukaghir, and various Indo-European languages. The articles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center `The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557355903321

Autore

Segoni Samuele

Titolo

Rainfall Thresholds and Other Approaches for Landslide Prediction and Early Warning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Soggetti

Research & information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Landslides are destructive processes causing casualties and damage worldwide. The majority of the landslides are triggered by intense and/or prolonged rainfall. Therefore, the prediction of the occurrence of rainfall-induced landslides is an important scientific and social issue. To mitigate the risk posed by rainfall-induced landslides, landslide early warning systems (LEWS) can be built and applied at different



scales as effective non-structural mitigation measures. Usually, the core of a LEWS is constituted of a mathematical model that predicts landslide occurrence in the monitored areas. In recent decades, rainfall thresholds have become a widespread and well established technique for the prediction of rainfall-induced landslides, and for the setting up of prototype or operational LEWS. A rainfall threshold expresses, with a mathematic law, the rainfall amount that, when reached or exceeded, is likely to trigger one or more landslides. Rainfall thresholds can be defined with relatively few parameters and are very straightforward to operate, because their application within LEWS is usually based only on the comparison of monitored and/or forecasted rainfall. This Special Issue collects contributions on the recent research advances or well-documented applications of rainfall thresholds, as well as other innovative methods for landslide prediction and early warning. Contributions regarding the description of a LEWS or single components of LEWS (e.g., monitoring approaches, forecasting models, communication strategies, and emergency management) are also welcome.