Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English grammar and beyond [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 406 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 427/.994 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PetersPam
CollinsPeter <1950-> SmithAdam |
Collana | Varieties of English around the world |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Australia - Grammar
English language - New Zealand - Grammar Grammar, Comparative and general Language and culture |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-24522-8
9786612245220 90-272-8940-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English grammar and beyond [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 406 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 427/.994 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PetersPam
CollinsPeter <1950-> SmithAdam |
Collana | Varieties of English around the world |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Australia - Grammar
English language - New Zealand - Grammar Grammar, Comparative and general Language and culture |
ISBN |
1-282-24522-8
9786612245220 90-272-8940-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778600803321 |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 | ||
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Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English grammar and beyond / / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 406 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 427/.994 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PetersPam
CollinsPeter <1950-> SmithAdam |
Collana | Varieties of English around the world |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Australia - Grammar
English language - New Zealand - Grammar Grammar, Comparative and general Language and culture |
ISBN |
1-282-24522-8
9786612245220 90-272-8940-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Prologue -- 1. Previous grammatical studies of AusE and NZE -- 2. The present volume -- 3. Corpus-based approaches -- 4. Structure of the volume -- 4.1 Section I ("Morphology") -- 4.2 Section II ("Verbs and Verb Phrases") -- 4.3 Section III ("Nouns and Noun Phrases") -- 4.4 Section IV ("Clauses and Sentences") -- 4.5 Section V ("Discourse") -- References -- Section I. Morphology -- Irregular verbs -- 1. Introduction: Movements in the English verb system -- 2. Modeling and analyzing the directions of change -- 3. Using ICE-corpus data, written and spoken -- 4. Frequencies of nonstandard past verb forms used with sing/sang/sung verbs -- 5. Frequencies of standard -ed and nonstandardized -t for verbs with variable past forms -- 6. Sociolinguistic variation in verbal preferences, especially on the age spectrum -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Pronoun forms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data sources and methodology -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Conjoined pronouns -- 3.2 Pronouns in identificational constructions, clefts, and than-comparatives -- 3.3 Possessive me -- 3.4 Demonstrative them and us NP -- 3.5 2pl variants -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Hypocoristics in New Zealand and Australian English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Functions of hypocoristics -- 3. Sources of hypocoristics and their contexts of use -- 4. Hypocoristics of placenames -- 5. Ways of forming hypocoristics: Derivation, grammar and meaning -- 6. Distribution of hypocoristics -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Some Australian hypocoristics for placenames and institutions -- References -- Section II. Verbs and verb phrases -- Modals and quasi-modals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recent changes: Quasi-modals on the rise.
3. The corpora -- 4. Frequencies across the regional varieties -- 5. Frequencies across speech and writing -- 6. The individual quasi-modals -- 6.1 Have to -- 6.2 Have got to -- 6.3 Need to -- 6.4 Be going to -- 6.5 Want to -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- The perfect and the preterite in Australian and New Zealand English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The perfect and the preterite in AusE and NZE -- 3. AusE and NZE in the company of the other national varieties -- 4. Data from Australian Style -- 5. Summing up -- References -- The progressive -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous corpus-based studies -- 3. The corpora -- 4. Progressive aspectuality -- 5. The growth of the progressive -- 6. Grammatical features -- 6.1 Forms of the progressive -- 6.2 Clause type -- 7. Special pragmatic uses -- 8. Contraction -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- The mandative subjunctive in spoken English -- 1. Introduction: A vexed construction -- 2. Previous corpus-based studies of the mandative subjunctive in British and American English -- 3. Variation in postcolonial Englishes in their use of the mandative subjunctive -- 4. Written vs. spoken use of the mandative subjunctive -- 5. Spoken and written data from six ICE corpora -- 6. Matrix verbs for the mandative subjunctive across six ICE corpora -- 7. Spoken contexts for the use of the mandative subjunctive -- 8. The future of the mandative subjunctive in world English -- References -- Light verbs in Australian, New Zealand and British English -- 1. Definition of "light verb" -- 2. Evidence for regional divergence -- 2.1 Research studies -- 2.2 Dictionary evidence -- 3. Frequency of common light verbs in the ICE corpora -- 3.1 Spoken vs written -- 3.2 Regional and temporal differences -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Section III. Nouns and noun phrases -- Non-numerical quantifiers -- 1. Introduction. 2. Classification of NNQs -- 3. Issues that apply to NNQs -- 3.1 Grammar: Verbal agreement and noun complementation -- 3.2 Collocation -- 3.3 Semantic weight -- 3.4 Variation -- 4. Previous corpus studies -- 5. Corpus findings -- 5.1 A lot/lots of -- 5.2 ONNQs that have a singular or plural quantifying noun -- 6. NNQs with singular or plural forms only -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix 1 -- From chairman to chairwoman to chairperson -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Women, men and social salience -- 3. Occupational terms -- 3.1 Contextual considerations -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Section IV. Clauses and sentences -- Concord with collective nouns in Australian and New Zealand English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research and hypotheses -- 2.1 Diachronic variation -- 2.2 Regional variation -- 2.3 Stylistic variation -- 2.4 Language-internal variation -- 3. Corpus data -- 3.1 Definition of the variable -- 3.2 Results and discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- No in the lexicogrammar of English -- 1. Introduction: Expressing negation -- 2. Research on the uses of no in contemporary English -- 3. Source material used in this study -- 4. Preliminary identification of reaction signals -- 5. Types of no collocation found in speech and writingLet -- 6. Relative frequency of no collocations and not any paraphrases -- 7. Freshly created no collocations -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Zero complementizer, syntactic context, and regional variety -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The predictions of syntactic theory -- 3. Non-syntactic factors in the occurrence of zero complementizer -- 4. Description of the corpus and results for general syntactic factors -- 5. Noun complement clauses -- 6. Description of the data and results for noun complement clauses -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References. Infinitival and gerundial complements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gerunds and infinitives in written English: The Brown family of corpora -- 2.1 help + infinitive -- 2.2 prevent/stop + NP + (from) + gerund -- 2.3 start and begin in catenative uses -- 3. Gerunds and infinitives in spoken English: Data from three ICE corpora -- 3.1 help + infinitive -- 3.2 prevent/stop + NP + (from) + gerund -- 3.3 start and begin in catenative uses -- 4. The regional factor in context: Medium, style and lexical incidence -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Commas and connective adverbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The problem -- 3. Properties of connective adverbs -- 4. Commas and connective adverbs -- 5. "One sentence or two?" -- 6. Towards a semantic explanation -- References -- Section V. Discourse -- Information-packaging constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpora -- 3. Some diachronic trends -- 4. Regional and stylistic variation -- 5. Existentials -- 6. Extraposition -- 7. Clefts -- 7.1 It-clefts -- 7.2 Basic pseudo-clefts -- 7.3 Reversed pseudo-clefts -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Like and other discourse markers* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse markers -- 3. Quantitative data -- 4. Constructions with like: Competing analyses -- 4.1 Like as a marker of intimacy and solidarity, especially among teenagers -- 4.2 Like as a marker of loose talk -- 4.3 Like as a discourse marker -- 5. The speakers -- 5.1 Australian speakers -- 5.2 New Zealand speakers -- 6. Constructions with like -- 6.1 The functions of like (DM) in three sentence locations -- 7. Clause-initial like (DM) -- 8. Clause medial like (DM) -- 9. Clause-final like (DM) -- 10. Like in combination with other DMs -- 11. Conclusion -- References -- Final but in Australian English conversation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The origins of Final Particle but in AusE -- 3. Data -- 4. Final Particle but in AusE. 4.1 Final Hanging but -- 4.2 Final Particle but -- 4.3 Summary -- 5. Comprehending Final but in contemporary AusE -- 6. Social meaning of Final but in contemporary AusE -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Swearing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is swearing? -- 3. Why do we swear? -- 3.1 The expletive function -- 3.2 Swearing as abuse or insult -- 3.3 The social function of swearing -- 3.4 Stylistic functions of swearing -- 4. Swearwords as discourse particles -- 5. The evolution of swearing patterns - what is offensive changes over time -- 6. Swearing is ever changing, but here to stay -- References -- Epilogue -- 1. Differentiation among varieties of English -- 2. Reflexes of BrE persisting in AusE and NZE -- 3. Similarities between AusE and NZE grammar: An antipodean standard? -- 4. Differences between AusE and NZE lexicogrammar: Independent national characteristics -- 5. Register differentiation in AusE and NZE via the ICE corpora -- 6. Corpus-based analysis and sociolinguistic variation -- 7. Conclusions: Larger evolutionary trends in AusE, NZE and world English -- References -- Index -- The series Varieties of English Around the World. |
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Distribution of household wealth in the U.S., 2000 to 2011 / / by Marina Vornovitsky, Alfred Gottschalck, and Adam Smith |
Autore | Vornovitsky Marina |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Census Bureau], , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (19 pages) : color illustrations |
Soggetto topico |
Wealth - United States - History
Wealth - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Statistics. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Distribution of household wealth in the United States, 2000 to 2011 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910702543303321 |
Vornovitsky Marina | ||
[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Census Bureau], , [2014] | ||
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Information Theoretic Security [[electronic resource] ] : 6th International Conference, ICITS 2012, Montreal, QC, Canada, August 15-17, 2012, Proceedings / / edited by Adam Smith |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2012.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 219 p. 28 illus.) |
Disciplina | 005.8 |
Collana | Security and Cryptology |
Soggetto topico |
Computer security
Data encryption (Computer science) Coding theory Information theory E-commerce Management information systems Computer science Computers and civilization Systems and Data Security Cryptology Coding and Information Theory e-Commerce/e-business Management of Computing and Information Systems Computers and Society |
ISBN | 3-642-32284-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996465735403316 |
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012 | ||
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Ma vie / / David Hume, Adam Smith |
Autore | Hume David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicoutimi : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 910.4 |
Collana | Classiques des sciences sociales |
Soggetto topico | Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | 1-55441-359-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Nota di contenuto | Dépouillement partiel: Lettre de M. Adam Smith à M.G. Strahan du 09 novembre 1776 -- My own life / David Hume. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131569303321 |
Hume David | ||
Chicoutimi : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2002 | ||
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Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization / / Abraham Flaxman, Saiph Savage, Adam Smith, SIGAI, SIGecom |
Autore | Flaxman Abraham |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY, USA : , : Association for Computing Machinery, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (498 pages) |
Disciplina | 004 |
Collana | ACM Conferences |
Soggetto topico |
Computer science
Artificial intelligence Machine learning |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996560366503316 |
Flaxman Abraham | ||
New York, NY, USA : , : Association for Computing Machinery, , 2023 | ||
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Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization / / Abraham Flaxman, Saiph Savage, Adam Smith, SIGAI, SIGecom |
Autore | Flaxman Abraham |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY, USA : , : Association for Computing Machinery, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (498 pages) |
Disciplina | 004 |
Collana | ACM Conferences |
Soggetto topico |
Computer science
Artificial intelligence Machine learning |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910755095103321 |
Flaxman Abraham | ||
New York, NY, USA : , : Association for Computing Machinery, , 2023 | ||
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Theory of Cryptography [[electronic resource] ] : 14th International Conference, TCC 2016-B, Beijing, China, October 31-November 3, 2016, Proceedings, Part I / / edited by Martin Hirt, Adam Smith |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVI, 692 p. 85 illus.) |
Disciplina | 005.82 |
Collana | Security and Cryptology |
Soggetto topico |
Data encryption (Computer science)
Computer security Algorithms Computer science—Mathematics Management information systems Computer science Computer communication systems Cryptology Systems and Data Security Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science Management of Computing and Information Systems Computer Communication Networks |
ISBN | 3-662-53641-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | TCC Test-of-Time Award -- From Indifferentiability to Constructive Cryptography (and Back) -- Foundations -- Fast Pseudorandom Functions Based on Expander Graphs -- 3-Message Zero Knowledge Against Human Ignorance -- The GGM Function Family is a Weakly One-Way Family of Functions -- On the (In)security of SNARKs in the Presence of Oracles -- Leakage Resilient One-Way Functions: The Auxiliary-Input Setting -- Simulating Auxiliary Inputs, Revisited -- Unconditional Security -- Pseudoentropy: Lower-bounds for Chain rules and Transformations -- Oblivious Transfer from Any Non-Trivial Elastic Noisy Channel via Secret Key Agreement -- Simultaneous Secrecy and Reliability Amplification for a General Channel Model -- Proof of Space from Stacked Expanders -- Perfectly Secure Message Transmission in Two Rounds -- Foundations of Multi-Party Protocols -- Almost-Optimally Fair Multiparty Coin-Tossing with Nearly Three-Quarters Malicious -- Binary AMD Circuits from Secure Multiparty Computation -- Composable Security in the Tamper-Proof Hardware Model under Minimal Complexity -- Composable Adaptive Secure Protocols without Setup under Polytime Assumptions -- Adaptive Security of Yao’s Garbled Circuits -- Round Complexity and Efficiency of Multi-Party Computation -- Efficient Secure Multiparty Computation with Identifiable Abort -- Secure Multiparty RAM Computation in Constant Rounds -- Constant-Round Maliciously Secure Two-Party Computation in the RAM Model -- More Efficient Constant-Round Multi-Party Computation from BMR and SHE -- Cross&Clean: Amortized Garbled Circuits With Constant Overhead -- Differential Privacy -- Separating Computational and Statistical Differential Privacy in the Client-Server Model -- Concentrated Differential Privacy: Simplifications, Extensions, and Lower Bounds -- Strong Hardness of Privacy from Weak Traitor Tracing. . |
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Theory of Cryptography [[electronic resource] ] : 14th International Conference, TCC 2016-B, Beijing, China, October 31-November 3, 2016, Proceedings, Part II / / edited by Martin Hirt, Adam Smith |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XV, 578 p. 32 illus.) |
Disciplina | 004 |
Collana | Security and Cryptology |
Soggetto topico |
Data encryption (Computer science)
Computer security Algorithms Computer science—Mathematics Management information systems Computer science Computer communication systems Cryptology Systems and Data Security Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science Management of Computing and Information Systems Computer Communication Networks |
ISBN | 3-662-53644-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Delegation and IP -- Delegating RAM Computations with Adaptive Soundness and Privacy -- Interactive Oracle Proofs -- Adaptive Succinct Garbled RAM, or How To Delegate Your Database.-Delegating RAM Computations -- Public-Key Encryption -- Standard Security Does Not Imply Indistinguishability Under Selective Opening -- Public-Key Encryption with Simulation-Based Selective-Opening Security and Compact Ciphertexts -- Towards Non-Black-Box Separations of Public Key Encryption and One Way Function -- Post-Quantum Security of the Fujisaki-Okamoto and OAEP Transforms -- Multi-Key FHE from LWE, Revisited -- Obfuscation and Multilinear Maps -- Secure Obfuscation in a Weak Multilinear Map Model -- Virtual Grey-Boxes Beyond Obfuscation: A Statistical Security Notion for Cryptographic Agents -- Attribute-Based Encryption -- Deniable Attribute Based Encryption for Branching Programs from LWE -- Targeted Homomorphic Attribute-Based Encryption -- Semi-Adaptive Security and Bundling Functionalities Made Generic and Easy -- Functional Encryption -- From Cryptomania to Obfustopia through Secret-Key Functional Encryption -- Single-Key to Multi-Key Functional Encryption with Polynomial Loss -- Compactness vs Collusion Resistance in Functional Encryption -- Secret Sharing -- Threshold Secret Sharing Requires a Linear Size Alphabet -- How to Share a Secret, Infinitely -- New Models -- Designing Proof of Human-work Puzzles for Cryptocurrency and Beyond -- Access Control Encryption: Enforcing Information Flow with Cryptography. |
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