Karyological variation, reproductive isolation, morphological differentiation and geographic distribution of the cytotypes of Centaurea phrygia were investigated in Central Europe. Occurrence of two dominant cytotypes, diploid (2n = 22) and tetraploid (2n = 44), was confirmed and additionally triploid, pentaploid and hexaploid ploidy levels identified using flow cytometry. Allozyme variation as well as morphological and genome size data suggest an autopolyploid origin of the tetraploids. Crossing experiments and flow cytometric screening of mixed populations revealed strong reproductive isolation of the cytotypes. Multivariate morphometric analysis revealed significant differentiation between the cytotypes in several morphological characters (pappus length, length and colour of appendages on involucral bracts, involucre width). The cytotypes have a parapatric distribution with only a small contact zone: diploids occupy the whole of the Central and North European geographic range of the species except for the major part of the Western Carpathians, whereas tetraploids are confined to the Western Carpathians and adjacent areas, both cytotypes co-occurring only in a limited area of intra-montane basins of the Western Carpathians. Based on this array of data, taxonomic treatment of the cytotypes as autonomous species is proposed. The name Centaurea phrygia is applied to the diploids and the name C. erdneri belongs to the tetraploids; nomenclature of hybrids with C. jacea is also resolved.
In this article, we introduce the Prague Dependency Treebank of Spoken Czech. The syntactic and semantic annotation of this corpus has led to the expansion of PDT-Vallex, a valency lexicon of Czech verbs, which has previously been linked only to the annotation of written texts. The expansion of the lexicon consisted of several steps: (i) new verbs were added to the lexicon; (ii) new meanings and new valency frames were added to verbs that had already been included in the lexicon; valency frames that had already been part of the lexicon were enriched with (iii) new participants (actants) and (iv) new formal realizations of participants (actants). All the above mentioned enrichments are (a) unmarked and based only on the addition of a new verb, a new meaning, a new participant (actant) or a new form, however, (b) some of them are influenced by the typical characteristics of spoken language. It would be almost impossible to find some of the verbs, some of the meanings, participants or forms in a written text. We believe that verbs in spoken language tend to exhibit different valency behavior than verbs in written texts. In this article we attempt to draw more general conclusions on the valency behavior of verbs in spoken language.
We cannot definitely determine precise boundaries of application of vague terms like ''tall''. Since it is only a height of a person that determines whether that person is tall or not, we can count ''tall'' as an example of a linear vague term. That means that all objects in a range of significance of ''tall'' can be linearly ordered. Linear vague terms can be used to formulate three basic versions of the sorites paradox – the conditional sorites, the mathematical induction sorites, and the line-drawing sorites. In this paper I would like to explore a possibility of formulating sorites paradoxes with so called multi-dimensional and combinatory vague terms – terms for which it is impossible to create a linear ordering of all objects in their range of significance. Therefore, I will show which adjustments must be made and which simplifications we must accede to in order to formulate any version of the sorites paradox with multi-dimensional or combinatory vague terms. I will also show that only the conditional version of the sorites paradox can be construed with all three kinds of vague terms., Nemůžeme rozhodně určit přesné hranice aplikace neurčitých termínů jako ,,vysoký''. Jelikož je to pouze výška osoby, která určuje, zda je tato osoba vysoká nebo ne, můžeme jako příklad lineárního neurčitého termínu počítat ,,vysoký''. To znamená, že všechny objekty v rozsahu významu ,,vysokého'' mohou být lineárně uspořádány. Lineární neurčité termíny mohou být použity pro formulaci tří základních verzí paradoxů soritů - podmíněných soritů, matematických indukčních soritů a soritů pro kreslení čar. V této práci bych chtěl prozkoumat možnost formulování paradoxů soritů s takzvanými vícerozměrnými a kombinatorickými neurčitými termíny - termíny, pro které není možné vytvořit lineární uspořádání všech objektů v rozsahu jejich významu. Proto, Ukážu, jaké úpravy je třeba provést a jaká zjednodušení musíme přistoupit, abychom mohli formulovat jakoukoli verzi paradoxů soritů s vícerozměrnými nebo kombinatorickými neurčitými termíny. Ukážu také, že pouze podmíněnou verzi paradoxu soritů lze chápat se všemi třemi druhy neurčitých termínů., and Jan Štěpánek