The present and past progressive tenses in Persian are the only tenses in which both the main verb and the minor verb dâštan "to have" receive agreement marking. Morpho-syntactically, Persian ...

Complex predicates, by definition, behave like representationally "reduced" predicates, as extensively discussed in the syntax literature. This article reports the results from an experimental study ...

The performance of the full table scan is critical for the overall performance of column-store database systems such as the SAP HANA database. Compressing the underlying column data format is both an ...