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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782800103321

Autore

Coupe A. R (Alexander Robertson)

Titolo

A grammar of Mongsen Ao [[electronic resource] /] / by A.R. Coupe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007

ISBN

1-281-23821-X

1-282-19445-3

9786612194450

9786611238216

3-11-019852-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (552 p.)

Collana

Mouton grammar library, , 0933-7636 ; ; 39

Disciplina

495/.4

Soggetti

Ao language - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's dissertation (doctoral--La Trobe University, 2003).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [505]-516) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Phonology and phonological processes -- Chapter 3 Prosody -- Chapter 4 Word classes -- Chapter 5 Clause structure and grammatical functions -- Chapter 6 The noun phrase, relative clauses and nominalizations -- Chapter 7 Nominal morphology -- Chapter 8 Verbs and verbal morphology -- Chapter 9 Verbless, copula and existential clauses -- Chapter 10 Imperatives -- Chapter 11 Clause combining -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

A Grammar of Mongsen Ao, the result of the author's fieldwork over a ten-year period, presents the first comprehensive grammatical description of a language spoken in Nagaland, north-east India. The languages of this region remain under-documented for a number of historical reasons. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the widespread cultural practice of head-hunting discouraged outsiders from entering the Naga Hills. Shortly after Indian independence in 1947, an armed rebellion by Naga separatists and a government policy of restricting access to the troubled area ensured that Nagaland remained a difficult place to conduct research. In this context, A Grammar of Mongsen Ao offers valuable new insights into the structure



of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in a linguistically little-known region of the world. The grammatical analysis documents all the functional domains of the language and includes four glossed and translated texts, the latter being of interest to anthropologists studying folklore. Mongsen Ao is a highly agglutinating, mostly suffixing language with predominantly dependent-marking characteristics. Its grammar demonstrates a number of typologically interesting features that are described in detail in the book. Among these is an unusual case marking system in which grammatical marking is motivated by semantic and pragmatic factors, and a rich verbal morphology that produces elaborate sequences of agglutinative suffixes. Grammaticalisation processes are also discussed where relevant, thereby extending the appeal of the book to linguists with interests in grammaticalisation theory. This book will be of value to any linguist seeking to clarify genetic relationships within the Tibeto-Burman family, and it will serve more broadly as a reference grammar for typologists interested in the typological features of a Tibeto-Burman language of north-east India.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795214203321

Autore

Thygesen Rene

Titolo

Development of a partially premixed combustion model for a diesel engine using multiple injection strategies / / Rene Thygesen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Logos Verlag, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

3-8325-9702-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 pages)

Disciplina

621.436

Soggetti

Diesel engines - Models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

PublicationDate: 20120229

Sommario/riassunto

Long description: In order to fulfil future emissions legislations, new combustion systems are to be investigated. One way of improving



exhaust emissions is the application of multiple injection strategies and conventional or partially premixed combustion conditions to a Diesel engine. The application of numerical techniques as CFD supports and improves the quality of engine developments. Unfortunately, current spray and combustion models are not accurate enough to simulate multiple injection systems, being in this way a topic of research. The goal of this study was the development of a novel simulation method for the investigation of Diesel engines operated with multiple injection strategies and different combustion modes.    The first part of this work focused in improving the spray modelling. The inform ation of 3D CFD simulations of the injector nozzle was introduced in the spray simulation as boundary conditions developing coupling subroutines for this issue. The atomisation modelling was also improved using validated presumed droplet size distributions. Moreover, to avoid the simulation of the injector nozzle for every investigated operating point, a novel interpolating tool was developed in order to create spray boundary conditions based on few 3D CFD simulations of the nozzle under certain initial and boundary conditions.  The second part of this thesis dealt with the combustion modelling of Diesel engines. For this issue, a laminar flamelet approach called Representative Interactive Flamelet model (RIF) was selected and implemented. Afterwards, an extended combustion model based on RIF was developed in order to take into account multiple injection strategies.   Finally, this new model was validated with a wide range of operating points: applying multiple injection strategies under conventional and partially premixed combustion conditions.