1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143575703321

Autore

Meduna Alexander <1957->

Titolo

Grammars with context conditions and their applications [[electronic resource] /] / by Alexander Meduna, Martin Svec

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2005

ISBN

1-280-27733-5

9786610277339

0-470-35383-X

0-471-73656-2

0-471-73655-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SvecMartin

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Generative grammar

Context (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general - Conditionals

Computational linguistics

Formal languages

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 (p. 201-212)  and index.

Nota di contenuto

Grammars with Context Conditions and Their Applications; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Preliminaries and Definitions; 2.1 Basic Definitions; 2.2 Grammars; 3 Conditions Placed on Derivation Domains; 3.1 Sequential Grammars over Word Monoids; 3.2 Parallel Grammars over Word Monoids; 4 Conditions Placed on the Use of Productions; 4.1 Sequential Conditional Grammars; 4.1.1 Context-Conditional Grammars; 4.1.2 Random-Context Grammars; 4.1.3 Generalized Forbidding Grammars; 4.1.4 Semi-conditional Grammars; 4.1.5 Simple Semi-conditional Grammars

4.2 Parallel Conditional Grammars4.2.1 Context-Conditional ETOL Grammars; 4.2.2 Forbidding ETOL Grammars; 4.2.3 Simple Semi-conditional ETOL Grammars; 4.3 Global Context Conditional Grammars; 5 Conditions Placed on the Neighborhood of Rewritten Symbols; 5.1 Continuous Context; 5.1.1 Sequential Uniform Rewriting; 5.1.2 Parallel



Uniform Rewriting; 5.2 Scattered Context; 5.2.1 Scattered Context Grammars and Their Reduction; 5.2.2 Semi-parallel Uniform Rewriting; 6 Grammatical Transformations and Derivation Simulations; 6.1 Derivation Simulation; 6.2 Grammatical Simulation

6.3 Simulation of E(0, l )L Grammars7 Applications and Implementation; 7.1 Applications; 7.2 Implementation; 8 Concluding and Bibliographical Notes; Bibliography; Denotations of Language Families; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The essential guide to grammars with context conditionsThis advanced computer science book systematically and compactly summarizes the current knowledge about grammars with context conditions-an important area of formal language theory. According to the types of context conditions, this self-contained reference classifies them into grammars with context conditions placed on the domains of grammatical derivations, the use of grammatical productions, and the neighborhood of the rewritten symbols. The focus is on grammatical generative power, important properties, simplification, reductio

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808310103321

Autore

Tate Andrew <1971->

Titolo

Douglas Coupland / / Andrew Tate

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013

©2007

ISBN

1-84779-673-7

1-78170-120-2

1-84779-192-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Contemporary American and Canadian writers

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Literature

Literature: History & Criticism

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General

Literature: history & criticism

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 index.



Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of abbreviations; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Coupland's contexts; 2 'Denarration' or getting a life: Coupland and narrative; 3 'I am not a target market': Coupland, consumption and junk culture; 4 Nowhere, anywhere, somewhere: Coupland and space; 5 'You are the first generation raised without religion': Coupland and postmodern spirituality; 6 Conclusion: JPod and Coupland in the future; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland's career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction. Emerging in the last decade of the twentieth century - amidst the absurd contradictions of instantaneous global communication and acute poverty - Coupland's novels, short stories, essays and visual art have intervened in