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Record Nr.

UNINA9911106339603321

Titolo

Deserfest : a celebration of the life and works of Stanley Deser : Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 3-5 April 2004 / / editors, James T. Liu ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2006

ISBN

9786611919696

9781281919694

1281919691

9789812774804

9812774807

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DeserS (Stanley)

LiuJames T

Disciplina

531/.14

Soggetti

Gravitation

Supergravity

Supersymmetry

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

Preface -- A celebration of the life and works of Stanley Deser -- Causality and learning in neural systems / L. F. Abbott -- Some results in M-theory inspired phenomenology / R. Arnowitt, B. Dutta and B. Hu -- A unified view of particles and black holes in 2+1-dimensional gravity / D. Brill -- A non-geometric approach to 11-dimensional supergravity / L. Brink -- Cosmological singularities, billiards and Lorentzian Kac-Moody algebras / T. Damour -- Generalized holonomy in M-theory / A. Batrachenko ... [et al.] -- Orientifolds, Brane coordinates and special geometry / R. D'Auria, S. Ferrara and M. Trigiante -- Consistent reductions of higher dimensional gravity and supergravity theories / G. W. Gibbons -- Electric-magnetic duality in gravity / M. Henneaux and C. Teitelboim -- R[symbol] terms in supergravity and M-theory / P. Howe -- Marriage of 4-dimensional gravity to the 3-dimensional Chern-Simons term / R. Jackiw -- Einstein-�ther theory / C. Eling, T. Jacobson and D. Mattingly --



Hyperboloidal slices and artificial cosmology for numerical relativity / C. W. Misner -- Some applications of the ADM formalism / J. E. Nelson -- Integrability + supersymmetry + boundary: life on the edge is not so dull after all! / R. I. Nepomechie -- An effective field theory description for Kaluza-Klein supergravity on AdS[symbol] x S[symbol] / H. Nicolai and H. Samtleben -- Massive gravity in AdS and Minkowski backgrounds / M. Porrati -- Many roads lead to N=2 Seiberg-Witten theory / S. G. Naculich and H. J. Schnitzer -- Non-commutative topologically massive gauge theory / N. Caporaso ... [et al.] -- The main postulates and results of loop quantum gravity / L. Smolin -- Counterterms, holonomy and supersymmetry / K. S. Stelle -- Milne and Torus universes meet / A. Waldron -- Diquarks as inspiration and as objects / F. Wilczek -- De sitter breaking in field theory / R. P. Woodard -- Publications of Stanley Deser -- Photographs.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume comprises the contributions to the proceedings of Deserfest - a festschrift in honor of Stanley Deser. Many of Stanley Deser's colleagues and longtime collaborators, including Richard Arnowitt and Charles Misner of "ADM" fame, contribute insighted article. Ranging from lower dimensional gravity theories all the way to supergravity in eleven dimensions and M-theory, the papers highlight the wide impact that Deser has had in the field.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9911131992803321

Autore

Melcuk Igor A (Igor Aleksandrovic), <1932->

Titolo

Semantics : from meaning to text / / Igor A. Melcuk ; edited by David Beck, Alain Polguere

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2012

ISBN

9789027271655

9027271658

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 p.)

Collana

Studies in Language Companion Series ; ; 135

Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 129, 135

Classificazione

ET 440

Altri autori (Persone)

BeckDavid

PolguèreAlain <1959->

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Semantics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Sentences

Meaning (Psychology)

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. 392-420) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Semantics""; ""Editorial page""; ""Title page""; ""LCC data""; ""Contents""; ""Author�s Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations and Notations""; ""Printing conventions""; ""Part III. Deep-Syntactic Representation in a Meaning�Text Linguistic Model""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Deep-Syntactic Representation vs. Semantic Representation""; ""2 General Properties of the DSynt-Representation""; ""2.1 Dependency Relations in a Syntactic Representation""; ""2.2 Deep- vs. Surface-Structure Distinction""; ""2.3 Multistructural Character of the Syntactic Representation""

""3 Peripheral Structures of the DSynt-Representation""""3.1 Deep-Syntactic Communicative Structure""; ""3.2 Deep-Syntactic Prosodic Structure""; ""3.3 Deep-Syntactic Anaphoric Structure""; ""Comments""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 7. Deep-Syntactic Structure""; ""1 General Characterization of the Deep-Syntactic Structure""; ""1.1 Substantive Characterization of the DSyntS""; ""1.1.1 The Target of a DSyntS""; ""1.1.2 The Three Necessary Conditions a DSyntS Must Satisfy""; ""1.2 Formal Characterization of the DSyntS""

""2 Labels on the Nodes of a Deep-Syntactic Structure: Deep Lexical



Units and Deep Grammemes""""2.1 Deep Lexical Units [= Deep LUs]""; ""2.1.1 The Stock of Deep LUs""; ""2.1.2 Potential Full LUs""; ""2.1.3 Deep Parts of Speech""; ""2.2 Deep Grammemes""; ""2.2.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""2.2.2 Mismatches between Deep and Surface Grammemes""; ""2.2.3 “Polysemy� of Deep Grammemes""; ""3 Labels on the Branches of a Deep-Syntactic Structure: Deep-Syntactic Relations""; ""3.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""3.2 An Overview of Deep-Syntactic Relations""

""3.2.1 Actantial DSynt-Relations: I, II, ..., VI, IIdir-sp""""3.2.2 Attributive DSynt-Relations: ATTR and ATTRdescr""; ""3.2.3 Appenditive DSynt-Relation: APPEND""; ""3.2.4 Coordinative DSynt-Relations: coord and quasi-coord""; ""3.3 Two Important Linguistic Properties of Deep-Syntactic Relations""; ""4 A Sample Deep-Syntactic Structure""; ""Comments""; ""5 The Formal Language of the Deep-Syntactic Structure""; ""Notes""; ""Part IV. The Semantic Module of a Meaning-Text Linguistic Model""; ""Introduction""; ""1 General Remarks""; ""2 Limitations of the Description Proposed""

""2.1 Only Static (= Linguistic) Rules are Presented""""2.2 Only Sentences are Considered""; ""3 The Importance of Paraphrasing in the Sem-Module""; ""Chapter 8. Semantic Paraphrasing""; ""1 General Characterization of Semantic Paraphrasing""; ""1.1 The Concept of Semantic Equivalence""; ""1.2 Major Types of Semantic Equivalence""; ""2 Propositional Semantic Paraphrases""; ""2.1 Replacement Sem-Equivalence Rules""; ""2.1.1 Expansion/Reduction Replacement Rules""; ""2.1.2 Global Replacement Rules""; ""2.2 Addition/Subtraction Sem-Equivalence Rules""

""2.2.1 General Characterization of Addition/Subtraction Equivalences""

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents an innovative approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language is a mechanism for the expression of linguistic meanings as particular surface forms (texts). Semantics is that system of rules that ensures a transition from a Semantic Representation of the meaning of a family of synonymous sentences to the Deep-Syntactic Representation of a particular sentence. Framed in terms of Meaning-Text linguistics, this volume discusses the Deep-Syntactic Representation and the transition from Semantics to Deep-Syntax via Semantic paraphrasing (the equivalence amongst Semantic Representations), Deep-Syntactic paraphrasing (the equivalence amongst Deep-Syntactic Representations), and the passage between the two. A chapter is dedicated to the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary, a semantically based and co-occurrence-centered lexicon. Reflecting the author’s life-long dedication to semantics and syntax, this book is a paradigm-shifting contribution to language studies whose originality and daring will make it essential reading for linguists, anthropologists, semioticians, and computational linguists.