We propose a distinction between two kinds of metonymy: "referential" metonymy, in which the referent of an NP is shifted, and "predicative" metonymy, in which...
The interpretation of coercion constructions (to begin a book) has been recently considered as resulting from the operation of type changing. For instance, a phrase of type o (obj...
A new class of formal languages will be defined the Distributed Index Languages (DI-languages). The grammar-formalism generating the new class - the DI-grammars - cover unbound de...
This paper presents four implementations for support of large objects in POSTGRES. The four implementations offer varying levels of support for security, transactions, compression...
A common task at almost any computer interface is that of searchingfordocuments,whichGUIstypicallyrepresentwith icons. Oddly, little research has been done on the processes underl...