Is our today’s world actually still worth living in? Isn’t everything overshadowed by worries, problems and difficulties? Do you often wonder how everything is supposed to keep on going? The euro, the EU, refugees, demonstrations, terror, the economy, the environment, health, pensions, etc, etc, etc … Things are coming to a head everywhere, everything is getting more and more complicated and difficult and there are no solutions or ways out in sight. The fear of a collapse or even a war is growing. Where will it all lead to? If you have such concerns, you should read this book, not because it will distract you from the problems but because it presents a practical solution – and, above all, because it gives you a clear idea of what your everyday life might look like concretely if a few things are changed. Join us on the journey to a better world and return with a vision which is absolutely tangible and can be implemented with just a certain amount of concerted commitment.

The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The various approaches within the rubric 'construction grammar' all see language as a network of constructions-pairings of form and meaning. Construction Grammar, as a kind of cognitive linguistics, differs significantly from mainstream generative grammar as espoused by Chomsky and his followers. Advocates of Construction Grammar see it as a psychologically plausible theory of human language. As such, it is capable of providing a principled account of language acquisition, language variation and language change. Research in Construction Grammar also includes multidisciplinary cognitive studies in psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to Construction Grammar. Divided into five sections, the book will be an invaluable resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a comprehensive account of current work on Construction Grammar, its theoretical foundations, and its applications to and relationship with other kinds of linguistic enquiry.

AI can assist the linguist in doing research on the structure of language. This Element illustrates this possibility by showing how a conversational AI based on a Large Language Model (AI LLM chatbot) can assist the Construction Grammarian, and especially the Frame Semanticist. An AI LLM chatbot is a text-generation system trained on vast amounts of text. To generate text, it must be able to find patterns in the data and mimic some linguistic capacity, at least in the eyes of a cooperative human user. The authors do not focus on whether AIs “understand” language. Rather, they investigate whether AI LLM chatbots are useful tools for linguists. They reframe the discussion from what AI LLM chatbots can do with language to what they can do for linguists. They find that a chatty LLM can labor usefully as an eliciting interlocutor, and present precise, scripted routines for prompting conversational LLMs.

Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is one of the most interesting areas of syntactic variation in English. This is the first book to investigate preposition placement across all types of clauses that license it, such as questions, exclamations and wh-clauses, and those which exhibit categorical stranding, such as non-wh relative clauses, comparatives, and passives. Drawing on over 100 authentic examples from both first-language (English) and second-language (Kenyan) data, it combines experimental and corpus-based approaches to provide a full grammatical account of preposition placement in both varieties of English. Although written within the usage-based construction grammar framework, the results are presented in theory-neutral terminology, making them accessible to researchers from all syntactic schools. This pioneering volume will be of interest not only to syntacticians, but also second-language researchers and those working on variation in English.

What do speakers of a language have to know, and what can they 'figure out' on the basis of that knowledge, in order for them to use their language successfully? This is the question at the heart of Construction Grammar, an approach to the study of language that views all dimensions of language as equal contributors to shaping linguistic expressions. The trademark characteristic of Construction Grammar is the insight that language is a repertoire of more or less complex patterns – constructions – that integrate form and meaning. This textbook shows how a Construction Grammar approach can be used to analyse the English language, offering explanations for language acquisition, variation and change. It covers all levels of syntactic description, from word-formation and inflectional morphology to phrasal and clausal phenomena and information-structure constructions. Each chapter includes exercises and further readings, making it an accessible introduction for undergraduate students of linguistics and English language.

The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar, offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English language. It covers all levels of morpho-syntactic form-meaning units: including sentence types, tense and aspect, argument structure, phrases, idioms, word and morphological constructions. In line with its usage-based approach, all constructions are discussed using authentic corpus examples. In order to illustrate how constructions can be learnt, the book draws on authentic data from child language. Furthermore, corpus analysis is used to show which lexical items typically occur in the slots of constructions and make up their ‘collo-profile’. A key feature of the book is that it develops a systematic method for showing how constructions combine to form actual utterances. For this purpose, so-called ‘construction grids’ are developed which contain all the constructions that make up even the most complex sentences and show points of overlap between them.

This book describes basic concepts of workflow automation in the graphic industry. There are three main chapters: Scope of Workflows in the Printing Industry, Production Models, and Metadata Formats. The book does not describe the individual business and production steps for manufacturing a print product. Rather, it describes what kinds of data exchanges are required between management software and devices to make the automatic execution of processes possible. Primary audience is students studying graphic arts technology, practitioners at printing and manufacturing companies, and computer scientists who are interested in workflow-related matters. It is presupposed that the reader is familiar with the basic procedures in the printing industry as well with the fundamental concepts of IT technology.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Informatik - Theoretische Informatik, Note: 1,0, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In folgender Ausarbeitung wird ein effizienter Divide & Conquer-Algorithmus zur Bestimmung desjenigen Punktepaares, welches unter einer Menge von Punkten den geringsten Abstand zueinander aufweist, vorgestellt.

Explores how comparative correlative constructions behave in English and how these change over time and space.

Vietnamese Intellectual Property Law, A concise overview in EU and ASEAN contexts provides students, researchers, and practitioners a picture of Vietnamese IP law from an international, European perspective. This book provides students with the principles of theoretical knowledge on intellectual property rights, such as: producers of industrial property, legal rights for industrial property, owners of industrial property, establishing rights, terms of protection, rights and responsibilities of staff and personnel and organizational intellectual property. The book covers the following issues: * Overview of intellectual property rights. * Patents * Industrial Designs * Trademark * Tradenames * Geographical indications * Trade Secrets * IC (Integrated Circuits) * Protection of industrial property rights. * Transfer of industrial property rights. * Copyrights * International and European legislation for intellectual property law