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The two parts of this volume feature seventeen and six extended
conference abstracts corresponding to selected talks given by
participants at "Joint CRM-Imperial College Workshop in Complex
Systems" and "Emergence, Spread and Control of Infectious Diseases"
respectively, both held at the Centre de Recerca Matematica in
Barcelona in spring 2013. Most of them are short articles giving
preliminary presentations of new results not yet published in
regular research journals. The articles are the result from a
direct collaboration among active researchers in the area after
working in a dynamic and productive atmosphere.Almost everything
that is interesting and important for society is complex; here,
examples scattered across science are presented in order to
illustrate the cross-disciplinary richness of state-of-the-art
complex systems research: fracture avalanches and rain showers that
mimic earthquakes; highly organized graphs that account for
processes in neural networks, metabolic networks, food webs, or
language; models for DNA dynamics; or statistical methods to test
complexity in the form of structure along many different scales.
The mathematics is put to work for the modeling of the real system,
and the models are kept at a minimum level to allow the
understanding of the essentials of the real system. The book is
intended for established researchers, as well as for PhD and
postdoc students who wish to learn more about the latest advances
in these active areas of research."
This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the
discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors
involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors
to this volume deal with different types of diathesis
alternationsA" -broadly defined by Levin (English Verb Classes and
Alternations. A Preliminary Investigation, 1993) as alternations in
the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by changes of
meaningA" -i.e. transitivity alternations (such as the
causative/inchoative alternation and the conative alternation),
alternations involving arguments within the VP (such as the
Swarm-alternation, and the dative or benefactive alternations),
etc. The volume will also include some contributions dealing more
generally with the issues of morphological relatedness and
verb-specific alternations within functionalist, cognitive and/or
constructionist frameworks. The book features a wide range of
theoretical approaches, ranging from functionalist models such as
Functional Discourse Grammar or the Cardiff Grammar version of
Systemic Functional Linguistics to more cognitively-oriented
approaches such as Goldberg's Construction Grammar or Fillmore's
Frame Semantics. This attempt to describe morphosyntactic
alternations within different contemporary theoriesA--A--
-derivational and non-derivational- will hopefully contribute to a
better understanding of the linguistic phenomena traditionally
subsumed under the rubric of morphosyntactic alternation. The book
will be of interest to experienced linguists and researchers of a
functionalist, cognitivist or even functional-typological
persuasion.
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