Trace confirmation with given object position

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 439-453
Author(s):  
S. K. Chang ◽  
Bingwei Luo ◽  
C. C. Yang ◽  
Mark C. K. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Object Position

scholarly journals Breton a-marking of (internal) verbal arguments: A result of language contact?

Linguistics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 745-766
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Stark ◽  
Paul Widmer
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Object Position ◽  
Relative Chronology ◽  
Celtic Languages ◽  
Potential Case ◽  
Existential Constructions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Internal Change ◽  
Pronominal System ◽  
Verbal Arguments

AbstractWe discuss a potential case of borrowing in this paper: Breton a- ‘of’, ‘from’ marking of (internal) verbal arguments, unique in Insular Celtic languages, and reminiscent of Gallo-Romance de/du- (and en-) arguments. Looking at potential Gallo-Romance parallels of three Middle Breton constructions analyzed in some detail (a with indefinite mass nominals in direct object position, a-marking of internal arguments under the scope of negation, a [allomorphs an(ez)-/ahan-] with personal pronouns for internal arguments, subjects (mainly of predicative constructions) and as expletive subjects of existential constructions), we demonstrate that even if there are some semantic parallels and one strong structural overlap (a and de under the scope of negation), the amount of divergences in morphology, syntax and semantics and the only partially fitting relative chronology of the different constructions do not allow to conclude with certainty that language-contact is an explanation of the Breton facts, which might have come into being also because of internal change (bound to restructuring of the pronominal system in Breton). More research is necessary to complete our knowledge of a-marking in Middle Breton and Modern Breton varieties and on the precise history of French en, in order to decide for one or the other explanation.

scholarly journals Efeitos de animacidade do antecedente na resolução de pronomes sujeito

2018 ◽  
pp. 190-205
Author(s):  
Sara Morgado ◽  
Paula Luegi ◽  
Maria Lobo
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Information ◽  
Pronoun Resolution ◽  
Reading Task ◽  
Object Position ◽  
European Portuguese ◽  
Overt Pronoun ◽  
Syntactic Information ◽  
Subject Pronoun ◽  
Multifactorial Approach

We report two experiments, a self-paced reading task and an off-line questionnaire, that tested if the overt subject pronoun in European Portuguese was sensitive to the animacy (animate vs. inanimate) of the antecedent in object position. We found higher reading times when the overt pronoun was forced to retrieve an inanimate antecedent compared to retrieving an animate one (Experiment 1) and less object choices with inanimate antecedents (compared to animate ones). Our findings show that several factors are taken into account during the resolution of pronominal forms, including animacy features, favouring thus a multifactorial approach to pronoun retrieval (Kaiser & Trueswell, 2008). We propose that there is a hierarchy that considers both syntactic and semantic information in pronoun resolution and that within the syntactic information the prominence of entities varies according to their animacy features. Our results are neither explained by processing theories that only consider syntactic factors (Carminati, 2005), nor by theoretical accounts that associate strong pronouns with animacy features (Cardinaletti & Starke, 1999).

System of Telecontrol with Two Manipulators

2015 ◽  
Vol 799-800 ◽  
pp. 1058-1062
Author(s):  
Alexey Katsurin ◽  
Denis Gerasimenko
Keyword(s):  
Vision System ◽  
Computing System ◽  
Object Position ◽  
Control Signals ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Position And Orientation

This paper describes the system of telecontrol with two manipulators, that allows to grasp synchronously the object, position and orientation of which is determined by the vision system. The proposed algorithm of the computing system forms the control signals for all drives of manipulators. The simulation results confirm the efficiency of this algorithm and the overall system.

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