Authors:Prof. Stavroula Tsiplakou, Dr. Marilena Karyolemou,
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: language, variation, iclave, nicosia, june, studies, europe, internatinonal, european, perspectives, selected, papers, conference
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2009-11-19
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 902723485X
ISBN-13: 9789027234858

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), which was held at the University of Cyprus from June 17th–19th 2007. The variety of theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives (from Generative Grammar, Word Grammar, Government Phonology, Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology to quantitative, Labovian and ethnographic approaches to variation and change, real and apparent time studies, phonetic analysis and metatheoretical papers on quantitative analysis), as well as the sheer number of linguistic va

Authors:Cira Perna, Marilena Sibillo,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: finance, insurance, methods, statistical, mathematical
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 2007-12-14
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 8847007038
ISBN-13: 9788847007031

The interaction between mathematicians and statisticians reveals to be an effective approach to the analysis of insurance and financial problems, in particular in an operative perspective. The Maf2006 conference, held at the University of Salerno in 2006, had precisely this purpose and the collection here published gathers some of the papers presented at the conference and successively worked out to this aim. They cover a wide variety of subjects in insurance and financial fields, all treated in light of the successful cooperation between the two quantitative methods.