On Describing Languages

Author : Rob Pensalfini,Myfany Turpin,Diana Guillemin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270917

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Language Description Informed by Theory by Rob Pensalfini,Myfany Turpin,Diana Guillemin Pdf

This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various sets of data across different languages. A goal of linguistic description is to represent the full range of language structures for any given language. The chapters in this book cover various sub-disciplines of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and anthropological linguistics, drawing upon theoretical approaches such as prosodic Phonology, Enhancement theory, Distributed Morphology, Minimalist syntax, Lexical Functional Grammar, and Kinship theory. The languages described in this book include Australian languages (Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan), Romance languages as well as English. This volume will be of interest to researchers in both descriptive and theoretical linguistics.

Author : Kenneth Lee Pike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036513237

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On Describing Languages by Kenneth Lee Pike Pdf

Author : Stephen Gilmore,Mark Ryan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447102878

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Language Constructs for Describing Features by Stephen Gilmore,Mark Ryan Pdf

A feature is a small modification or extension of a system which can be seen as having a self-contained functional role, such as Call Forwarding, Automatic Call back and Voice Mail in telephone services, to which users can subscribe. Feature interaction happens when one feature modifies or subverts the operation of another, and this problem has received a great deal of attention from industry and academics, especially in the field of telecommunications, where new services are constantly being developed and deployed. This volume contains refereed papers resulting from the ESPRIT FIREworks working group. The papers focus on the language constructs which have been developed describing features, and advocate a feature-oriented approach to software design including requirements specification languages and verifications logics.

Author : D. Agnew,L. Claesen,R. Camposano
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781483298023

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Computer Hardware Description Languages and their Applications by D. Agnew,L. Claesen,R. Camposano Pdf

Hardware description languages (HDLs) have established themselves as one of the principal means of designing electronic systems. The interest in and usage of HDLs continues to spread rapidly, driven by the increasing complexity of systems, the growth of HDL-driven synthesis, the research on formal design methods and many other related advances. This research-oriented publication aims to make a strong contribution to further developments in the field. The following topics are explored in depth: BDD-based system design and analysis; system level formal verification; formal reasoning on hardware; languages for protocol specification; VHDL; HDL-based design methods; high level synthesis; and text/graphical HDLs. There are short papers covering advanced design capture and recent work in high level synthesis and formal verification. In addition, several invited presentations on key issues discuss and summarize recent advances in real time system design, automatic verification of sequential circuits and languages for protocol specification.

Author : Pierre Dissaux,Mamoun Filali Amine,Pierre Michel,Francois Vernadat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387245904

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Architecture Description Languages by Pierre Dissaux,Mamoun Filali Amine,Pierre Michel,Francois Vernadat Pdf

Architecture Description Languages is an essential reference for both academic and professional researchers in the field of system engineering and design. The papers presented in this volume were selected from the workshop of the same name that was held as part of the World Computer Congress 2004 Conference, held in Toulouse, France in August 2004. This collection presents significant research and innovative developments and applications from both academic researchers and industry practitioners on topics ranging from Semantics to Tool and Development Environments. The aim of an ADL is to formally describe software and hardware architectures. Usually, an ADL describes components, their interfaces, their structures, their interactions (structure of data flow and control flow) and the mappings to hardware systems. A major goal of such description is to allow analysis with respect to several aspects like timing, safety, reliability. The papers in this state-of-the-art volume cover such topics of interest as components, connectors, composition; semantics and formalization; verification, simulation and test; tools and development environments; standardization; industrial projects. To encourage closer interaction between academic and industrial networking research communities, the workshop welcomed academic research papers as well as industrial contributions, and both are included here. Which makes this collection important not only for ADL experts and researchers, but also for all teachers and administrators interested in ADL.

Author : Prabhat Mishra,Nikil Dutt
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0080558372

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Processor Description Languages by Prabhat Mishra,Nikil Dutt Pdf

Efficient design of embedded processors plays a critical role in embedded systems design. Processor description languages and their associated specification, exploration and rapid prototyping methodologies are used to find the best possible design for a given set of applications under various design constraints, such as area, power and performance. This book is the first, comprehensive survey of modern architecture description languages and will be an invaluable reference for embedded system architects, designers, developers, and validation engineers. Readers will see that the use of particular architecture description languages will lead to productivity gains in designing particular (application-specific) types of embedded processors. * Comprehensive coverage of all modern architecture description languages... use the right ADL to design your processor to fit your application; * Most up-to-date information available about each architecture description language from the developers...save time chasing down reliable documentation; * Describes how each architecture desccription language enables key design automation tasks, such as simulation, synthesis and testing...fit the ADL to your design cycle;

Author : Evangelia Adamou,Katharina Haude,Martine Vanhove
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263810

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Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages by Evangelia Adamou,Katharina Haude,Martine Vanhove Pdf

The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely, if ever, taken into account in the most prominent approaches in information structure theory, and which belong to the Afroasiatic, Amerindian, Australian, Caucasian, and Niger-Congo language stocks. In addition to the significant descriptive value of these pioneering contributions, several studies also draw attention to previously undescribed or typologically rare phenomena. By adapting a variety of methods to under-described and endangered languages, ranging from experimental to naturalistic corpus studies, this volume also aims to serve as an invitation for further research in this direction.

Author : D. Borrione,R. Waxman
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781483298450

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Computer Hardware Description Languages and their Applications by D. Borrione,R. Waxman Pdf

The topic areas presented within this volume focus on design environments and the applications of hardware description and modelling – including simulation, verification by correctness proofs, synthesis and test. The strong relationship between the topics of CHDL'91 and the work around the use and re-standardization of the VHDL language is also explored. The quality of this proceedings, and its significance to the academic and professional worlds is assured by the excellent technical programme here compiled.

Author : Carlos Delgado Kloos,Eduard Cerny
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387350646

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Hardware Description Languages and their Applications by Carlos Delgado Kloos,Eduard Cerny Pdf

In the past few decades Computer Hardware Description Languages (CHDLs) have been a rapidly expanding subject area due to a number of factors, including the advancing complexity of digital electronics, the increasing prevalence of generic and programmable components of software-hardware and the migration of VLSI design to high level synthesis based on HDLs. Currently the subject has reached the consolidation phase in which languages and standards are being increasingly used, at the same time as the scope is being broadened to additional application areas. This book presents the latest developments in this area and provides a forum from which readers can learn from the past and look forward to what the future holds.

Author : Luca Alfieri,Giorgio Francesco Arcodia,Paolo Ramat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259943

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Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology by Luca Alfieri,Giorgio Francesco Arcodia,Paolo Ramat Pdf

Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current debate on the nature and methodology of the research on comparative concepts – particularly, the relation between the categories needed to describe languages and those needed to compare languages. While the first six papers deal with general theoretical questions, the following five confront specific issues in the domain of language analysis arising from the application of categories. The volume will appeal to a very broad readership: advanced students and scholars in any field of linguistics, but also specialists in the philosophy of language, and scholars interested in the cognitive aspects of language from different subfields (neurolinguistics, cognitive sciences, psycholinguistics, anthropology).

Author : David Graddol,Jenny Cheshire,Joan Swann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCAL:B4386996

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Describing Language by David Graddol,Jenny Cheshire,Joan Swann Pdf

Author : Conference on Data Systems Languages. Data Description Language Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Data structures (Computer science)
ISBN : UOM:39015086489880

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CODASYL Data Description Language by Conference on Data Systems Languages. Data Description Language Committee Pdf

Author : Timothy Shopen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521318998

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Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3 by Timothy Shopen Pdf

The three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense; aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized u=in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.

Author : Jeff Siegel,John Dominic Lynch,Diana Eades
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252521

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Language Description, History and Development by Jeff Siegel,John Dominic Lynch,Diana Eades Pdf

This volume in memory of Terry Crowley covers a wide range of languages: Australian, Oceanic, Pidgins and Creoles, and varieties of English. Part I, Linguistic Description and Typology, includes chapters on topics such as complex predicates and verb serialization, noun incorporation, possessive classifiers, diphthongs, accent patterns, modals in Australian English and directional terms in atoll-based languages. Part II, Historical Linguistics and Linguistic History, ranges from the reconstruction of Australian languages, to reflexes of Proto-Oceanic, to the lexicon of early Melanesian Pidgin. Part III, Language Development and Linguistic Applications, comprises studies of lexicography, language in education, and language endangerment and language revival, spanning the Pacific from South Australia and New Zealand to Melanesia and on to Colombia. The volume will whet the appetite of anyone interested in the latest linguistic research in this richly multilingual part of the globe.

Author : Donald E. Thomas,Philip R. Moorby
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461539926

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The Verilog® Hardware Description Language by Donald E. Thomas,Philip R. Moorby Pdf

The Verilog language is a hardware description language which provides a means of specifying a digital system at a wide range of levels of abstraction. The language supports the early conceptual stages of design with its behavioral level of abstraction, and the later implementation stages with its structural level of abstraction. The language provides hierarchical constructs, allowing the designer to control the complexity of a description. Verilog was originally designed in the winter of 1983/84 as a proprietary verification/simulation product. Since then, several other proprietary analysis tools have been developed around the language, including a fault simulator and a timing analyzer; the language being instrumental in providing consistency across these tools. Now, the language is openly available for any tool to read and write. This book introduces the language. It is sometimes difficult to separate the language from the simulator tool because the dynamic aspects of the language are defined by the way the simulator works. Where possible, we have stayed away from simulator-specific details and concentrated on design specification, but have included enough information to be able to have working executable models. The book takes a tutorial approach to presenting the language.