Search results for "Syntax."

Sémantique discursive cognitive.

2022

Langue et connaissances sont dans la recherche actuelle travaillées sous l’angle du discours. Son étude linguistique permet d’identifier des figements en tant qu’expressions de routines sociales et cognitives. Cette approche exploite deux outils : les constructions en tant qu’appariements de sens et de forme, et les frames en tant qu’unités minimales de connaissances partagées. Il convient alors de construire théoriquement cette association, encore inédite en analyse du discours. Un protocole méthodologique de linguistique du corpus opérationnalise l’approche développée. Puis, une analyse empirique d’un corpus de publicités du vin issues de prospectus de supermarchés autrichiens permet de v…

On the Applicability of the Space Syntax Methodology for the Determination of Street Lighting Classes

2020

Street lighting plays a crucial role in a city’s night landscape and in urban traffic management, influencing users’ comfort and safety. To contain costs of public street lighting systems and to avoid energy waste, illuminance levels on road surfaces must be adequate to fit actual traffic volumes, as prescribed by regulations. This is true not only for motorized roads but also for sidewalks, paths, and pedestrian areas. Regulations in force establish a relationship between road traffic volumes and minimum illuminance levels through the lighting classes selection procedure. Lighting classes selection is based on various para meters among which traffic volume is the most difficult to evaluate…

VegItaly: Technical features, crucial issues and some solutions

2012

VegItaly is at present the largest Italian vegetation database. It is the result of a collaborative project aspiring to represent a major reference for the Italian vegetation scientists. The paper emphasizes its benefits for phytosociological data management and describes the solutions adopted to solve several technical problems, like the treatment of different vegetation stratification systems, the conversion of vegetation cover values, taxonomic and syntaxonomic issues, data import and access. The structure of the taxonomic list produced to support the storing of data is described. It allows an easy management of synonymic relationships and is constantly updated according to new publicati…

"One original thought is worth a thousand quotings" - some reflections on the age of metadata analysis

2014

Les grammaires de construction au service de la morphologie lexicale ? Apports pour la description des noms-termes en allemand

2019

International audience; Contexte Le « goût » de la langue allemande pour la créativité lexicale, en particulier dans le domaine nominal, fait figure de lapalissade. Ceci est particulièrement vrai en discours spécialisés où les besoins en dénomination de nouveaux concepts passent, outre les différentes formes d’emprunts ou de néologismes de forme, par les deux procédés classiques que sont la dérivation et la composition. C’est dans ce contexte que la présente proposition de communication vise à interroger les apports des grammaires de construction appliquées à ces phénomènes – on parlera alors avec Booij (2017) de morphologie constructionnelle – pour une analyse de l’interface syntaxe-séma…

Linéarisation et expressivité dans un type de texte spécialisé : le compte rendu boursier

2006

This paper aims to answer the following two questions: is expressivity – defined by Jakobson (1963) as one of the six functions of language – a suitable category to describe specialized discourse? And if yes, what could the possible markers for this category be at the syntactical level? The analysed corpus is made up of comparable texts, actually stock exchange reports from the online versions of French and German daily newspapers. On the basis of Fix's notion of ‘text model' (Textmuster), we first give a succinct description of the thematic and textual features of these texts before briefly exploring which possibilities German syntax offers for the manifestation of expressivity. The main p…

Metamodel specialization for graphical modeling language support

2016

Most of current modeling languages are based on graphical diagrams. The concrete graphical syntax of these languages typically is defined informally -- by text and diagram examples. Only recently, starting from UML 2.5, a formalism is offered for defining the graphical syntax of UML. This formalism is based on Diagram Definition standard by OMG, where the main emphasis is on enabling diagram interchange between different tools implementing the given language. While this is crucial for standardized languages such as UML, this aspect is not so important for domain specific languages. In this paper an approach is offered for simple direct definition of concrete graphical syntax by means of met…

Searching for Syntax in the Early Medieval Commentaries on Donatus

2023

This study aims at contributing to the reconstruction of the metalanguage and the specific terminology used by grammarians with reference to the reflection on syntax, as it emerges from the analysis of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages grammar texts. The study focuses on the description of prepositions within the commentaries on Donatus’s Artes. Despite the overall lack of a systematic treatment of syntax within the Greek-Latin grammatical tradition, the description of specific partes orationis, e.g. praepositio, shows actually traces of a certain reflection on syntax. The metaterminology used by grammarians to describe the mutual relation between linguistic elements seems to go even bey…

The orophilous communities of the Pino-Juniperetea class in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean area

2001

Orophilous plant communities of the Pino-Juniperetea class, occurring in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean area, are examined. This vegetation is characterized by the dominance of trees and shrubs, mostly represented by conifers belonging to the genera Juniperus, Abies and Pinus. These communities are nowadays relegated to the supra- and oromediterranean belt, and show a fragmentary distribution, which is an evident proof of their relict connotation. The comparison among these communities, based on original and literature data, has highlighted a remarkable floristic and structural homogeneity, together with a series of geographical vicariances. From the phytosociological point of view, …

Empirical evidence for musical syntax processing? Computer simulations reveal the contribution of auditory short-term memory

2014

During the last decade, it has been argued that (1) music processing involves syntactic representations similar to those observed in language, and (2) that music and language share similar syntactic-like processes and neural resources. This claim is important for understanding the origin of music and language abilities and, furthermore, it has clinical implications. The Western musical system, however, is rooted in psychoacoustic properties of sound, and this is not the case for linguistic syntax. Accordingly, musical syntax processing could be parsimoniously understood as an emergent property of auditory memory rather than a property of abstract processing similar to linguistic processing.…