The town square is an important public space and is often described as the city´s living room. By creating a lively city center a sense of security is developed among the citizens which makes them wanting to use the town square regardless the time of the day. One important meeting point in Gävle is the centrally located Stortorget, sited between Drottninggatan and Nygatan. The town square went through an extensive renovation followed by both positive and negative reactions among the City´s inhabitants.  The aim with the study was to investigate the main walking paths and meeting points as a planning support to Gävle Municipality in their work with a new city plan.   By studying the pedestrian movement patterns at Stortorget, Nygatan and Drottninggatan, the main walking paths and meeting points during all hours of the day was obtained. The study included camera observations at Stortorget which was complemented by space syntax analysis in Geographical Information Systems (GIS). These methods have, together with interviews of the visitors at Stortorget and earlier studies, ended in different development suggestions. The developments suggestions aim to create a more pleasant place with more movement throughout the day. This is achieved through the construction of more secondary seats, increase the plant growth, improve the street lighting, entend the cycle parking and improve the playground and market trade.   Conclusions drawn from this study shows that there are a number of factors that affect pedestrian movement patterns, including distance, weekday, money, security, opening times, weather, layout and design. It has also been found that the main routes are along Drottninggatan, Nygatan, the square edges and diagonally across the square. The pattern was found regardless of time of day or day of week. However, the flow varied depending on the day of week and time of day. / Torg är en viktig allmän plats för stadens invånare och beskrivs ofta som stadens vardagsrum. Genom att skapa en aktiv stadskärna framkallas en trygghet hos invånarna som gör att de vågar använda torget oavsett tid på dygnet. En viktig mötesplats i Gävle är det centralt belägna Stortorget som är lokaliserat mellan Drottninggatan och Nygatan. Torget genomgick mellan 2009 och 2010 en omfattande renovering vilket har resulterat i både positiva och negativa reaktioner hos invånarna. Syftet med arbetet var att undersöka de huvudsakliga gångstråken och mötesplatserna som stöd för Gävle Kommun i deras arbete vid upprättandet av en ny centrumplan.   Genom studier av gåendes rörelsemönster på Stortorget, Nygatan och Drottninggatan erhölls de huvudsakliga gångstråken och mötesplatserna under dygnets alla timmar. Studierna innefattade kameraobservationer över torget som kompletterades med en space syntax analys i GIS (geografiska informationssystem). Dessa metoder har tillsammans med intervjuer av torgets besökare samt tidigare studier, resulterat i olika utvecklingsförslag för Stortorget, Nygatan och Drottninggatan. Utvecklingsförslagen syftade till att skapa en trivsammare plats med mer rörelse under hela dygnet. En trivsam plats med mer rörelse skulle uppnås genom att uppföra fler sekundära sittplatser, öka växtligheten, förbättra belysningen, utöka cykelparkeringen, samt förbättra lekplatsen och torghandeln.   Slutsatser som kan dras utifrån studien är att det finns en rad faktorer som påverkar gåendes rörelsemönster, bland annat avstånd, veckodag, ekonomi, trygghet, öppettider, väder, torgets utformning och design. Det har även konstaterats att de huvudsakliga stråken är längs med Drottninggatan, Nygatan, torgets kanter, samt diagonalt över torget, och återfanns oavsett tid på dygnet eller veckodag. Däremot varierade flödet beroende på veckodag och tid på dygnet.

This is the first typological study devoted to Medieval Cypriot (MC). The objective of the study is to provide both syntactic and pragmatic factors which are determining for the word order of the language and to open new ways to recording mechanisms of word order change. Cypriot syntax deserves this attention, as it is a language highly interesting for the typologist as for the researcher of other linguistic areas; Modern Cypriot is VOS, and exhibits a series of exceptions to the general rules of V-initial languages. Medieval Cypriot conforms to most of Greenberg�s Universals (1963) which are pertinent to type VSO in that it has V in initial position in all unmarked clauses, in that it is prepositional, that adjectives mostly follow the noun they qualify, and so on. However, the comparison of MC to Greenberg�s Universals is not the aim of this work. Apart form the order of the main constituents, this research mainly focuses on revealing mechanisms of syntactic change not generally known, and on unveiling particular traits of the Cypriot VSO order that are not common to other VSO languages. The analysis can be defined as diachronic for it deals with the language written over a span of many years, as assumed from studying the texts. Some words and structures, used in the beginning of the narrative, seem to decrease in frequency in the end, or vice versa. It is diachronic considering it also allows for comparison with later (colloquial) and earlier (written) constructions of the language. However, it is mostly a synchronic analysis; the patterns observed are from within the same language spoken by the same people living in the same period, more importantly from within the same work. Makhairas is thus the only broad evidence of his period, offered both as a diachronic and a synchronic linguistic testimony of his time. As no language exists in vacuo, my description of MC starts with a historical approach to the language under study; it is almost impossible to realise the problems of colloquial, literary and foreign features without being aware of the earlier history of Greek in general and of Cypriot in particular, in some of its earlier documents. I refrained as far as possible from entering the field of comparative criticism with Medieval Greek. In this way I decided to focus on discussions based exclusively on the Cypriot forms and patterns, as presented and justified by the evidence in Makhairas, and as witnessed by history which, for many centuries, has singled out Cypriot from the rest of the dialects and the Greek language itself. So, alternative views, criticism and discussion of same mechanisms of change recorded within the broader Greek language have been more or less avoided. The exposition of the MC word order patterns is based on my hypotheses that word order, as I understand it, is founded on purposes of communication and that languages with extreme flexibility of order, such as Medieval Cypriot, may adopt patterns that display rigidity of order in a number of their elements. It is within these areas of rigidity that new mechanisms of change may be detected. I also hypothesised that the same syntactic changes within languages of the same branch may be merely coincidental, and that Greek or forms of Greek may well adopt foreign elements, only (but not exclusively) if these acquire the Greek endings, or if they appear as independent affixes, as is the case with the post-medieval referential Cypriot marker �mish� which is from Turkish. Acquiring particular elements from other languages does not mean acquiring their order. However, acquiring patterns that are similar to Greek from a borrowing language which has the same patterns does not exclude syntactic borrowing. Since Modern Cypriot is V-initial, I presumed that this might have also been its order in the Middle Ages. I judge that major mechanisms of syntactic change of the same period may have been triggered by factors internal to Cypriot rather than by the more general, universal mechanisms of change. Moreover, I speculated that MC was a far more marginalised language in the Middle Ages than what history and literature have taught us. Its creative dynamism and potentiality to �juggle� between words and patterns has been its greater forte. Cypriot has not been studied as a dialect, in this work. I avoided having only a partial or a shadowed understanding of its word order patterns. Exhaustive descriptions that show its particularities in the process of completion appear with both rigidity (in some elements) and flexibility of order, and most importantly, they exhibit a long-life endurance. I have also been concerned with forms and /or patterns of Greek such as the future and other periphrastic tenses, although they are already known and have been analysed at length in Greek linguistic studies. I concentrate here on some of these from a Cypriot perspective. Cypriot has never been classified as Balkan Greek or mainland Greek. Following this study, it will be clarified further that any attempt to fit MC into a framework defined along these categorisations will be successful only in some areas of the general Greek syntax. In fact, Cypriot opens the way for a further understanding of Greek syntax with its (almost) boundless flexibility; it is through MC and the unique data of Makhairas that the study of the Greek syntax is being enriched. Areas of fine-grained classificatory criteria result in connecting some MC syntactic traits to those of Greek and accrediting to the language its own word order singularities in what can be righteously called here the Cypriot syntax. Additionally, the study aims to open new areas of investigation on diachronic syntactic issues and to initiate new and revealing answers concerning configurational syntax. To determine the syntactic traits of MC a meticulous work of counting was needed. The counting of the order of the main constituents from both the more general narrative patterns of the Chronicle as well as of those passages thought to be more immediate to the author�s living experience(s) was done manually. The primarily and more difficult task of considering, following and explaining pragmatic word order patterns in the Chronicle has been the stepping stone of this research. Earlier (and forgotten) stages of Greek, and patterns exclusive to Cypriot, assembled in a unique lexicon and with special Cypriot phrasal verbs, have provided answers to explaining the Cypriot structure. In addition to statistics, areas of language contact have also been explored, both in the morphology and in the syntax. More importantly, the extreme word order freedom of MC that illustrates word order processes based entirely on internal structural changes, aims to contribute to discussions regarding morphology and syntax versus morphosyntax. Chapter 1 provides all the background information of the history and language in Cyprus, prior to the Middle Ages. Chapter 2 deals with the description of the data and the methodology used to assess them. Chapter 3 exhibits the MC verbal forms, both finite and non-finite; it examines non-finites more closely, inasmuch as they play an important role in the change of the order of major constituents and uncover and explain the role of V-initial structures. Chapter 4 is the core chapter of this work. It displays Cypriot particularities of word order, reveals data concerned with the word order of the major constituents within the clause and unfolds explanatory accounts of them; lastly, it classifies MC as a V-initial language. Chapter 5 summarises conclusions, adds a further note on the Cypriot morphosyntactic traits while placing the results into the contemporary scholarship on VSO languages, also suggesting additional research areas into the MC patterns. The examples from Makhairas have been written in the monotonic system, where only one accent has been used; other special symbols have been eliminated or modified in the interest of making the text readable in the absence of the right font. However, Ancient Greek words appear with their appropriate accents. Abbreviation C indicates structures or words that remained unchanged in Cypriot over a long period of time, and G means a form or word accepted in both their written and spoken forms over a long period of time in Greek. A morphemic analysis of each form of the glosses has not always been given. I limited myself to glossing some elements only, for the better understanding of some examples.

Thesis (MA (General Linguistics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / This study focuses on the internal structure of the CP in Afrikaans. Rizzi’s (1997) Split-CP Hypothesis serves as the starting-point; however, careful consideration is also given to the more recent proposals of Beninca’ and Poletto (2004). The aim of the study is to determine whether the proposals of Rizzi (1997) and Beninca’ and Poletto (2004) provide an adequate framework for the description of the CP-domain in Afrikaans. The study is presented within the theoretical framework of Minimalist Syntax. Specific adaptations to the Split-CP Hypothesis are suggested throughout the course of the discussion in an attempt to make the Split-CP Hypothesis compatible with the facts of Afrikaans. Finally, attention is also given to three problematic issues in Afrikaans that require further investigation.

Thesis (MA (General Linguistics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / Bibliography / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study deals with syntactic aspects of expletive daar (“there”) and dit (“it”) constructions in Afrikaans. Previous analyses of these constructions have mostly been of a non-formalistic nature (e.g. Barnes 1984; Donaldson 1993; Du Plessis 1977; Ponelis 1979, 1993). The present study investigates the properties of Afrikaans expletive constructions within the broad theoretical framework of Minimalist Syntax. Four recent minimalist analyses of expletive constructions in English, Dutch and German are set out, namely those proposed by Bowers (2002), Felser and Rupp (2001), Richards and Biberauer (2005), and Radford (2009). Against this background, an analysis is proposed of transitive, non-passive unaccusative, passive unaccusative, and unergative expletive constructions in Afrikaans. Throughout, the focus is on whether the devices available within Minimalist Syntax, and specifically the Expletive Conditions proposed by Radford (2009), provide an adequate framework in which the relevant facts of Afrikaans can be described and explained. Where required, modifications to the devices in question are proposed. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie handel oor sintaktiese aspekte van ekspletiewe daar- en dit-konstruksies in Afrikaans. Vorige analises van dié konstruksies was grootliks nie-formalisties van aard (bv. Barnes 1984; Donaldson 1993; Du Plessis 1977; Ponelis 1979, 1993). Die huidige studie ondersoek die eienskappe van Afrikaanse ekspletiewe konstruksies binne die breë teoretiese raamwerk van Minimalistiese Sintaksis. Vier onlangse minimalistiese analises van ekspletiewe konstruksies in Engels, Nederlands en Duits word uiteengesit, naamlik dié wat voorgestel is deur Bowers (2002), Felser en Rupp (2001), Richards en Biberauer (2005), en Radford (2009). Teen hierdie agtergrond word ’n analise voorgestel van transitiewe, nie-passiewe onakkusatiewe, passiewe onakkusatiewe, en onergatiewe ekspletiewe konstruksies in Afrikaans. Die fokus is deurgaans op die vraag of die meganismes wat beskikbaar is binne Minimalistiese Sintaksis, en spesifiek die drie Ekspletiewe Voorwaardes wat voorgestel word deur Radford (2009), ’n toereikende raamwerk bied waarbinne die tersaaklike feite van Afrikaans beskryf en verklaar kan word. Waar nodig, word aanpassings aan die betrokke meganismes voorgestel.

Although several systems with structure editors have been built, no model exist to formally describe the edit operations used in such editors. This thesis introduces such a model --- a formalism to describe general structure edit operations for text oriented documents. The model allows free bottom-up editing for any tree-based structural document with a textual content. It can also handle attribute and erroneous structures. Some classes of common structures have been identified and structure editor specifications constructed for them, which can be used and combined in the creation of other structure editors.

La parution d’un certain nombre de travaux menés sur les « conjonctions de subordination », Deulofeu (1999a) sur que, Benzitoun (2006a) à propos de quand, Corminboeuf (2009) pour si, Debaisieux (2006) concernant parce que, quoique, puisque et bien que, etc., a permis de rendre justice à la pluralité des fonctionnements syntaxiques des structures ainsi introduites en faisant valoir le fait qu’elles ne peuvent être constamment ramenées à une relation de dépendance grammaticale. C’est dans cette même lignée que s’inscrit ce travail qui a pour objectif de recenser, sur la base de corpus de français parlé et écrit, les différents fonctionnements syntaxiques de la conjonction alors que en français contemporain. Il apparait que les séquences ainsi introduites relèvent de cinq principaux emplois, dont un seul est à considérer comme véritablement « subordonné ». Nous associerons par ailleurs un ou plusieurs effets de sens à chacun de ces emplois. / A number of recent studies dealing about the syntactic properties of French subordinating conjunctions such as que (which, who, that) (Deulofeu, 1999a), quand (when) (Benzitoun, 2006a), si (if) (Corminboeuf, 2009) or parce que, quoique, puisque and bien que (because, since, although) (Debaisieux, 2006) have brought an increased awareness of the various grammatical behaviors of such forms, which definitely cannot be reduced to a simple relation of syntactic dependency. Using this approach, the present dissertation will attempt to offer a precise account of the conjunction alors que (whereas) as it is used in spoken and written contemporary French. It will be demonstrated that the constructions introduced by alors que can be classified into five main syntactic types, only one of them presenting a truly “subordinating” effect. In addition to analyzing their specific syntactic structure, our different types will be described according to their particular semantic value.

Duplicate code occurs in source files for different reasons. In many cases the motivation for copying the code is laziness of a programmer, or an attempt to use an alien source code. Over the years, multiple methods for detection of the duplicate source code have been developed. Approaches vary in the ways they analyze the code, focusing on different representations of the program. Methods based on the analysis of the syntactic properties of the source code often use abstract syntax trees. By examining the tree representation instead of the textual representation of the code, these methods are able to detect duplicate code that underwent formatting changes as well as changes to the names of identifiers. Duplicate code fragments are discovered by identifying the subtrees of the same shape. After the suspicious parts of the tree are identified, further examination of AST properties determines to what extent the code was copied. In this work we develop a system for duplicate code detection based on AST comparison.

Umfassende und konsistente Darstellung der Syntax des Filipino (Tagalog) mit mehr als 1000 Sätzen und Phrasen, die authentisch Umgangs- und Schriftsprache des modernen Filipino widerspiegeln. Unter maßgeblicher Beteiligung vieler Muttersprachler "vor Ort" wurde die sprachliche Wirklichkeit erfasst, und darauf basierend konnte die grammatische Analyse erarbeitet werden, ohne sich an von anderen Sprachen übernommene syntaktische Modelle anzulehnen. Als wesentliche Eigenschaft der Sprache wird gesehen, dass durch vorangestellte Bestimmungswörter die syntaktische Funktion der Satzglieder (Phrasen) festgelegt wird. Die filipinische Sprache besitzt sechs dieser Funktionsphrasen, zwei davon sind Prädikat und Subjekt. Die inhaltliche Aussage der Phrasen wird durch Inhaltswörter realisiert, deren Klassen den Wortarten wie Verb oder Nomen vergleichbar sind. Entscheidend wird die Syntax durch die häufig verwendeten enklitischen Konstruktionen beeinflusst. Die Analyse zusammengesetzter Sätze wird dadurch geprägt, dass der syntaktische Aufbau der unterschiedlichen Teilsätze (wie Haupt- und Nebensatz) nahezu gleich ist. Zusätzlich zur Syntax werden die zum Verständnis notwendigen Elemente von Phonologie und Morphologie dargestellt. Ausführlich und kritisch wird die hier vorgestellte grammatische Analyse mit Arbeiten der verschiedenen linguistischen Schulen über Filipino (Tagalog) verglichen. / Comprehensive and consistent presentation of the syntax of the Filipino (Tagalog) language supported by more than 1000 sentences and phrases authentically reflecting up-to-date written and colloquial Filipino. With decisive participation of many native speakers "on the spot", the true language reality was captured and became the foundation of the grammatical analysis avoiding the need to rely on syntactical models appropriate to other languages. In Filipino, the syntactical function of the phrases of the sentence is marked by a class of determiners. This is considered as essential feature of the language. There are six of those function phrases, two of them predicate and subject. The semantic message of the phrases is realized by content words which can be categorized into classes comparable to conventional parts of speech (e.g. verb or noun). Decisively, the syntax is influenced by the frequent use of enclitic constructions. Crucial for the build-up of compound sentences is the fact that, in principle, all kinds of clauses have the same syntactical structure. Additionally, some basic elements of Filipino phonoloyg and morphology are presented. Comprehensively, works of the different linguistic schools about Filipino (Tagalog) are critically reviewed.

Umfassende Darstellung in Deutsch und Filipino der Syntax des Filipino (Tagalog) mit mehr als 1500 Sätzen und Phrasen, die authentisch Umgangs- und Schriftsprache des modernen Filipino widerspiegeln. Unter maßgeblicher Beteiligung vieler Muttersprachler 'vor Ort' wurde die sprachliche Wirklichkeit erfasst, und darauf basierend konnte die grammatische Analyse erarbeitet werden, ohne sich an von anderen Sprachen übernommene syntaktische Modelle anzulehnen. Als wesentliche Eigenschaft der Sprache wird gesehen, dass durch vorangestellte Bestimmungswörter die syntaktische Funktion der Satzglieder (Phrasen) festgelegt wird. Die filipinische Sprache besitzt sechs dieser Funktionsphrasen, zwei davon sind Prädikat und Subjekt (Kapitel 1-5). Die inhaltliche Aussage der Phrasen wird durch Inhaltswörter realisiert, deren Klassen den Wortarten wie Verb oder Nomen vergleichbar sind (6-10). Entscheidend wird die Syntax durch die häufig verwendeten enklitischen Gebilde beeinflusst (11). Die Analyse zusammengesetzter Sätze wird dadurch geprägt, dass der syntaktische Aufbau der unterschiedlichen Teilsätze (wie Haupt- und Nebensatz) nahezu gleich ist (13). Ein grammatisches Wörterbuch enthält grammatisch wichtige Wortfamilien mit Beispielsätzen. Ausführlich und kritisch wird die hier vorgestellte grammatische Analyse mit Arbeiten der verschiedenen linguistischen Schulen über Filipino (Tagalog) verglichen. Die vorliegende Arbeit ist eine verbesserte Ausgabe der elektronischen Publikation A. Möller, Syntax der filipinischen Sprache - Palaugnayan ng Wikang Filipino, 2013 (http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-127837).:Teil 1: Syntax der filipinischen Sprache, Seiten S 1 - 322 Teil 2: Palaugnayan ng Wikang Filipino (Übersetzung von Teil 1 in die filipinische Sprache), Seiten U 1 - 305 Teil 3: Grammatisches Wörterbuch - Talasalitaang Pambalarila, Seiten T 1 - 100 / Comprehensive and consistent presentation in German and Filipino of the syntax of the Filipino (Tagalog) language supported by more than 1500 sentences and phrases authentically reflecting up-to-date written and colloquial Filipino. With decisive participation of many native speakers 'on the spot', the true language reality was captured and became the foundation of the grammatical analysis avoiding the need to rely on syntactical models appropriate to other languages. In Filipino, the syntactical function of the phrases of the sentence is marked by a class of determiners. This is considered as essential feature of the language. There are six of those function phrases, two of them predicate and subject (Chapters 1-5). The semantic message of the phrases is realized by content words which can be categorized into classes comparable to conventional parts of speech (e.g. verb or noun, 6-10). Decisively, the syntax is influenced by the frequent use of enclitic constructions (11). Crucial for the build-up of compound sentences is the fact that, in principle, all kinds of clauses have the same syntactical structure (13). Additionally, a dictionary contains grammarically relevant Filipino word families including numerous sentences for illustration. Comprehensively, works of the different linguistic schools about Filipino (Tagalog) are critically reviewed. The present paper is an improved edition of the electronic publication A. Möller, Syntax der filipinischen Sprache - Palaugnayan ng Wikang Filipino, 2013 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-127837).:Teil 1: Syntax der filipinischen Sprache, Seiten S 1 - 322 Teil 2: Palaugnayan ng Wikang Filipino (Übersetzung von Teil 1 in die filipinische Sprache), Seiten U 1 - 305 Teil 3: Grammatisches Wörterbuch - Talasalitaang Pambalarila, Seiten T 1 - 100

Opinion Target Extraction (OTE) is a well-established subtask of sentiment analysis. While detecting sentiment polarity is useful in itself, the ability to extract the targets of the opinions allows for more thorough decision making. For example, an owner of a restaurant needs to know whether the guests are complaining about the food, or the ambience, or any other aspect of their establishment, etc. Despite the lexical information being crucial for the task, syntactic structures have potential in being used to correctly decide among multiple candidate entities. Rules based on such structures have been used previously for the task. The objective of this thesis is to investigate, whether syntactic information influences the behavior of the state-of-the-art models such as recurrent neural networks for the OTE task. We did not find any substantial evidence to suggest that adding the syntactic information influences the behavior of the models.