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The sudden arrival of Building Information Modelling (BIM) as a key
part of the building industry is redefining the roles and working
practices of its stakeholders. Many clients, designers,
contractors, quantity surveyors, and building managers are still
finding their feet in an industry where BIM compliance can bring
great rewards. This guide is designed to help quantity surveying
practitioners and students understand what BIM means for them, and
how they should prepare to work successfully on BIM compliant
projects. The case studies show how firms at the forefront of this
technology have integrated core quantity surveying responsibilities
like cost estimating, tendering, and development appraisal into
high profile BIM projects. In addition to this, the implications
for project management, facilities management, contract
administration and dispute resolution are also explored through
case studies, making this a highly valuable guide for those in a
range of construction project management roles. Featuring a chapter
describing how the role of the quantity surveyor is likely to
permanently shift as a result of this development, as well as
descriptions of tools used, this covers both the organisational and
practical aspects of a crucial topic.
Mimetic words, also known as 'sound-symbolic words', 'ideophones'
or more popularly as 'onomatopoeia', constitute an important subset
of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of
other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African languages. Mimetics
play a central role in Japanese grammar and feature in children's
early utterances. However, this class of words is not considered as
important in English and other European languages. This book aims
to bridge the gap between the extensive research on Japanese
mimetics and its availability to an international audience, and
also to provide a better understanding of grammatical and
structural aspects of sound-symbolic words from a Japanese
perspective. Through the accounts of mimetics from the perspectives
of morpho-syntax, semantics, language development and translation
of mimetic words, linguists and students alike would find this book
particularly valuable.
The sudden arrival of Building Information Modelling (BIM) as a key
part of the building industry is redefining the roles and working
practices of its stakeholders. Many clients, designers,
contractors, quantity surveyors, and building managers are still
finding their feet in an industry where BIM compliance can bring
great rewards. This guide is designed to help quantity surveying
practitioners and students understand what BIM means for them, and
how they should prepare to work successfully on BIM compliant
projects. The case studies show how firms at the forefront of this
technology have integrated core quantity surveying responsibilities
like cost estimating, tendering, and development appraisal into
high profile BIM projects. In addition to this, the implications
for project management, facilities management, contract
administration and dispute resolution are also explored through
case studies, making this a highly valuable guide for those in a
range of construction project management roles. Featuring a chapter
describing how the role of the quantity surveyor is likely to
permanently shift as a result of this development, as well as
descriptions of tools used, this covers both the organisational and
practical aspects of a crucial topic.
Mimetic words, also known as 'sound-symbolic words', 'ideophones'
or more popularly as 'onomatopoeia', constitute an important subset
of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of
other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African languages. Mimetics
play a central role in Japanese grammar and feature in children's
early utterances. However, this class of words is not considered as
important in English and other European languages. This book aims
to bridge the gap between the extensive research on Japanese
mimetics and its availability to an international audience, and
also to provide a better understanding of grammatical and
structural aspects of sound-symbolic words from a Japanese
perspective. Through the accounts of mimetics from the perspectives
of morpho-syntax, semantics, language development and translation
of mimetic words, linguists and students alike would find this book
particularly valuable.
Die Untersuchung geht der Frage nach, wie effektiv der gerichtliche
Rechtsschutz fur Strafgefangene ist. Mittels quantitativer und
qualitativer Analyse werden exemplarisch die Hindernisse fur einen
effektiven Rechtsschutz in totalen Institutionen aufgezeigt und vor
allem die behordlichen Strategien der Behinderung und Verhinderung
von Gefangenenbeschwerden dargestellt. Die Untersuchung schliesst
mit kriminalpolitischen Vorschlagen zur Verbesserung der negativen
Rechtsschutzbilanz
Planned in five volumes, this critical Flora provides a definitive
account of the native species, naturalised species, frequent garden
escapes and casuals found in the British Isles. Full keys and
descriptions will enable the user to name all plants occurring in
the wild, plus some ornamental trees and shrubs. For the first time
detailed accounts of all the large apomictic genera are given and
many infraspecific variants included. Each species entry begins
with the accepted Latin name, synonyms and the common English name.
A detailed description follows, including information on flowering
period, pollination and chromosome number. Separate descriptions
are given for infraspecific taxa. Information on the status,
ecology and distribution (including worldwide distribution) of the
species and infraspecific taxa is also given. Clear black and white
line drawings illustrate an extensive glossary and also illuminate
the diagnostic features in a number of groups of plants.
Complex predicates can be defined as predicates which are composed
of more than one grammatical element (either morphemes or words),
each of which contributes a non-trivial part of the information of
the complex predicate. The papers collected in this volume, which
were presented at a workshop at Stanford in 1993, represent a
variety of approaches to the question of the range and nature of
complex predicates, and draw on data from a wide spectrum of
languages. This collection develops a better understanding of the
range of phenomena that a general theory of complex predicates
would have to account for, and to see what kinds of linguistic
ideas and methodologies would be necessary for such a task.
The annual Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum
for research, particularly through comparative study, of both
languages. This title includes essays on the phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis,
prosody, and psycholinguistics of these languages from the 2010
conference at Oxford.
This volume explores the grammatical structure of sentences in
Swedish, presenting an account of the order of the words and
phrases within the clause. This analysis is presented from the
perspective of Optimality Theory within the theoretical framework
of Lexical-Functional Grammar. This framework provides syntactic
analysis in terms of functions within the clause such as subject,
object, and also topic and focus, as well as part-of-speech
analysis in terms of noun phrase, verb phrase, and so on, and the
hierarchical structure of those constituents. Sells argues for the
superiority of a base-generated account of the phenomenon known as
Object Shift, and shows how an account based on the notion of
Alignment within a ranked constraint system provides a natural
account of it. The nature of the Verb-Second sentence pattern and
syntactic differences between Swedish and the other Mainland
Scandinavian languages are also considered.
"Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality Theoretic Syntax" is a
collection of selected works which involve a new approach to syntax
by bringing together Optimality Theory (OT) and Lexical-Functional
Grammar (LFG). The volume's importance is precisely in this new
approach, which differs greatly from other OT approaches to syntax.
The book first develops formal foundations of Optimality Theory.
The works within the volume then go on to analyze certain kinds of
linguistic data, as well as more technical questions of the formal
foundations, and of the utility of the approach in (industrial)
natural language processing applications.
Peter Sells is associate professor in the department of linguistics
at Stanford University. Joan Bresnan is professor of linguistics at
Stanford University. Miriam Butt is a researcher at University of
Konstanz. Tracy Holloway King is a researcher at Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center.
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