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Performance assessment of industrial system (african textile manufacturers, LTD) through copula linguistic approach

open access: yesOperations Research and Decisions, 2019
This paper deals with the performance assessment of a textile industry, namely African Textile Manufactures (ATM) Ltd., in Chalawa, Kano industrial estate, Federal Republic of Nigeria. The entire system ATM has different sections of machines for processing various assignments. The machines in the sections have diverse capabilities.
Abubakar, Muhammad Idris   +1 more
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Probabilistic Assessment of Computer-Based Test (CBT) Network System Consists of Four Subsystems in Series Configuration Using Copula Linguistic Approach

open access: yesJournal of Reliability and Statistical Studies, 2021
A complex repairable computer-based test (CBT) network system studied in this paper consists of three client computers, a load balancer, two database servers, with the centralized server structured in a series configuration. Subsystem 1 consists of three homogeneous clients arranged in parallel configuration, subsystem 2 comprises a load balancer ...
Vijay Vir Singh   +3 more
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On the limits of the Davidsonian approach : the case of copula sentences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Since Donald Davidson’s seminal work “The Logical Form of Action Sentences” (1967) event arguments have become an integral component of virtually every semantic theory.
Maienborn, Claudia
core   +1 more source

The Spanish Verbs Estar (To Be) and Ser (To Be) in Child-Directed Speech

open access: yesPsychology of Language and Communication, 2019
The verbs ser and estar have been a subject of great debate in the literature, mainly because the adjectives that are combined with each copula are not in complementary distribution.
Espinosa-Ochoa Mary Rosa
doaj   +1 more source

Une approche typologique de la langue des signes française

open access: yesTIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2018
What do we mean by ‘sign languages’? What are the specificities of sign languages? In what way; might sign languages contribute to general linguistics?
Nicolas Tournadre, Mélanie Hamm
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Eventualities and different things : a reply [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
“Comments are very welcome!” This basic attitude and the many ways of implementing it contribute immensely to the fascination of engaging in scientific research.
Maienborn, Claudia
core   +1 more source

Copular Clauses in Malay with Distal Demonstrative Itu

open access: yesArbitrer
The limited research in Malay nonverbal predication has predominantly revolved around the two attested copulas ialah and adalah. In fact, there is another grammatical element that appears to serve as a copula to the constituents flanking it, namely itu.
Amir Rashad Mustaffa
doaj   +1 more source

The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
wiley   +1 more source

Review of Regina Pustet : Copulas: universals in the categorization of the lexicon: (Oxford University Press 2003; 262pp) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The renowned Grimm Dictionary (1854-1961) makes the statement that the German copula sein (to be) is “the most general and colourless of all verbal concepts” (der allgemeinste und farbloseste aller verbalbegriffe).
Maienborn, Claudia
core  

Neutral Forms of Be as Default Forms: The Utility of Underspecification and Blocking in a Welsh Morphosyntactic Phenomenon

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
wiley   +1 more source

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