Bielefeld, Universiẗat, Diss., 2002. / Dateiformat: tgz, Dateien im PDF-Format.

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A lecture about sentences in Navajo. / This collection consists of learning objects developed for use in courses offered by the Department of Linguistics. Learning objects include lectures, presentations, quizzes, activities, and more. Access to this collection is restricted to authorized faculty and instructors. For access to this collection, please contact Dr. Amy Fountain, Department of Linguistics, avf@email.arizona.edu.

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This thesis proposes and defends a let of analyses of various aspects of the phrase structure of colloquial Egyptian Arabic (EA) clause structure, using the Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) framework of Gazdar, Klein, Pullum and Sag (1985). In the first chapter the constituency of simple clause types is examined and it is argued that EA is a "configurational" SVO language with a VP constituent. These two proposals form the basis for the analyses developed in subsequent chapters. The second chapter pursues the themes of the first, examining the syntax of so-called "nominal" (verbless) sentences, and offering a unified account of both verbal and nominal sentence types. Chapter 3 is concerned with clausal complementation, and shows that under certain assumptions motivated in earlier chapters, the GPSG framework allows for a concise account of a number of hitherto problematic constructions. Chapter 4 is devoted to the syntax of subjects, and in particular to a discussion of "pro-drop" in EA. The relationship between the possibility of missing subjects, word order, and inflection is investigated, and an analysis of cliticisation is proposed which has implications for other areas of the grammar especially relative clauses, which are the subject of Chapter 5.The final chapter is concerned exclusively with the synta~ of relative clauses. A grammar for relative clauses is formulated, in which resumptive pronouns are generated using the feature SLASH. Under the analysis of relative clauses proposed here, the syntax of both subject and object relatives falls out from the interaction of a number of independent facts about EA grammar, and requires no special statement. Throughout the work the aim is to highlight important issues in the syntax of EA, and to offer accounts of these aspects of the grammar which involve the smallest amount of syntactic machinery and achieve maximum generality.

Space syntax uncovers hidden perspectives on geographic spaces and facilitates the study of the structure and form of spaces. Correlations of the human movement and space configurations are interesting observations revealed by space syntax. Much research demonstrates that urban configurations can affect the distribution of human flows in space and even form of land use patterns. The high correlation between the human movement and space structures can lead to the hypothesis that through this high correlation, it is possible to obtain information about a particular type of human activity and the number of people in a region. The present research investigates this possibility and tries to generate models for predicting the number of people who live in a region and the number of people who work in that region. The project takes a street network and calculates the space syntax’s measures and length of the streets. Based on regional boundaries in which the measures are located, sum, average, maximum and minimum of all measures are computed and assigned to the related regions. Next, correlations between them and nighttime (the number of people who live in the region) and daytime (the number of people who work in the region) populations are calculated. The significance test is run to check if the calculated correlations are real. From the significant correlations, the measures with high correlations are selected for the regression analyses and different regression models are generated. Finally the project selects the model which has 79% correspondence with the population counts as the result. The main application of this method is in Location-Based Services (LBS) which collect users’ trajectories via mobile positioning and communication technologies. However, hidden information in trajectories can be abused and can threaten the privacy and security of the users. Indeed this research is a preface for a new approach for trajectory anonymization. The method - based on the street network properties - counts the number of people that live in a region and work in another, to construct regions for the user such that the count is above a threshold then it cloaks the user’s trajectory within the constructed regions.

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Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 2007.