scholarly journals French polar response particles and neg movement

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-306
Author(s):  
Jérémy Pasquereau
Keyword(s):  
Lower Position ◽  
Negative Questions

AbstractI present new data from European French involving embedded polar response particles (a.k.a. yes/no particles) in response to negative questions and develop a novel proposal which integrates the insights of previous analyses (e.g. Holmberg in Lingua 128:31–50, 2013; Roelofsen and Farkas in Language 91(2):359–414, 2015). The main puzzle has to do with the interpretation of non ‘no’ (bare or followed by a clause), which may assert its antecedent or the negation of its antecedent. It is shown that the meaning of non-responses varies as a function of the scope of negation with respect to various operators in its antecedent. Polar response particles in French are analyzed as the spell-out of a Polarity head which has moved from a lower position. The various interpretations of polar response particles are modelled as being constrained by the interaction between the necessity of the movement of the Polarity head and a constraint on scope preservation. The ramifications of this proposal for related phenomena (e.g. ‘low negation’ in English, N-word responses) are then discussed.

Articles

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Gillon ◽  
Nicole Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Plains Cree ◽  
Lower Position ◽  
Article System ◽  
Definite Articles

This chapter focuses on the article system in Michif. Articles are particularly problematic for the French DP/Plains Cree VP split posited for Michif (Bakker 1997). Despite being French-derived, the Michif articles do not behave like their French counterparts. Michif definite articles occupy a lower position within the DP than French definite articles do, and Michif lacks definiteness, despite having borrowed both the definite and indefinite articles. Even more problematically, the singular definite articles are used to Algonquianize non-Algonquian vocabulary—both within the DP and the VP. Thus, a piece of French morphosyntax has been appropriated to create structures that can be interpreted within Algonquian syntax, providing more evidence that ultimately the Michif DP is Algonquian, rather than French.

scholarly journals Optimizing Planting Density and Impact of Panicle Types on Grain Yield and Microclimatic Response Index of Hybrid Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guotao Yang ◽  
Xuechun Wang ◽  
Farhan Nabi ◽  
Hongni Wang ◽  
Changkun Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Light Intensity ◽  
Grain Yield ◽  
Hybrid Rice ◽  
Plant Density ◽  
Oryza Sativa L ◽  
Planting Density ◽  
Response Index ◽  
Lower Position ◽  
High Plant Density

AbstractThe architecture of rice plant represents important and complex agronomic traits, such as panicles morphology, which directly influence the microclimate of rice population and consequently grain yield. To enhance yield, modification of plant architecture to create new hybrid cultivars is considered a sustainable approach. The current study includes an investigation of yield and microclimate response index under low to high plant density of two indica hybrid rice R498 (curved panicles) and R499 (erect panicles), from 2017 to 2018. The split-plot design included planting densities of 11.9–36.2 plant/m2. The results showed that compared with R498, R499 produced a higher grain yield of 8.02–8.83 t/ha at a higher planting density of 26.5–36.2 plant/m2. The response index of light intensity and relative humidity to the planting density of R499 was higher than that of R498 at the lower position of the rice population. However, the response index of temperature to the planting density of R499 was higher at the upper position (0.2–1.4%) than at the lower position. Compared with R498, R499 at a high planting density developed lower relative humidity (78–88%) and higher light intensity (9900–15,916 lx) at the lower position of the rice population. Our finding suggests that erect panicles are highly related to grain yield microclimatic contributors under a highly dense rice population, such as light intensity utilization, humidity, and temperature. The application of erect panicle rice type provides a potential strategy for yield improvement by increasing microclimatic conditions in rice.

scholarly journals From “No, she does” to “Yes, she does”: Negation processing in negative yes–no questions by Mandarin speakers of English

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Haoruo Zhang ◽  
Norbert Vanek
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Reaction Time ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Production Experiment ◽  
Mandarin Speakers ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
Negative Questions

Abstract In response to negative yes–no questions (e.g., Doesn’t she like cats?), typical English answers (Yes, she does/No, she doesn’t) peculiarly vary from those in Mandarin (No, she does/Yes, she doesn’t). What are the processing consequences of these markedly different conventionalized linguistic responses to achieve the same communicative goals? And if English and Mandarin speakers process negative questions differently, to what extent does processing change in Mandarin–English sequential bilinguals? Two experiments addressed these questions. Mandarin–English bilinguals, English and Mandarin monolinguals (N = 40/group) were tested in a production experiment (Expt. 1). The task was to formulate answers to positive/negative yes–no questions. The same participants were also tested in a comprehension experiment (Expt. 2), in which they had to answer positive/negative questions with time-measured yes/no button presses. In both Expt. 1 and Expt. 2, English and Mandarin speakers showed language-specific yes/no answers to negative questions. Also, in both experiments, English speakers showed a reaction-time advantage over Mandarin speakers in negation conditions. Bilingual’s performance was in-between that of the L1 and L2 baseline. These findings are suggestive of language-specific processing of negative questions. They also signal that the ways in which bilinguals process negative questions are susceptible to restructuring driven by the second language.

The prosody of enhanced bias in Mandarin and Japanese negative questions

Lingua ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 92-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yurie Hara ◽  
Shigeto Kawahara ◽  
Yuli Feng
Keyword(s):  
Negative Questions

scholarly journals Eksplorasi Dan Inventarisasi Anggrek Di Desa Tompobulu Resort Balocci Taman Nasional Bantimurung Bulusaraung

bionature ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilmiah Hilmiah
Keyword(s):  
Light Intensity ◽  
National Park ◽  
Growth Characteristic ◽  
Morphological Characterization ◽  
Lower Position ◽  
Distribution Point ◽  
Park Area

Abstract. Resort Balocci of Bantimurung Bulusaraung National Park is location grown many natural orchids. This research aims to knew the natural orchids species. This research used the exploration method by tracing did the study area investigation and documentation includes of took the picture and morphological characterization as basic to identification of orchids type. Exploration of natural orchid conducted in 1 location with 94 distribution point had height from 764 m dpl until 1252 m dpl. The results of research got 44 types of orchid, the research there were 3 kinds of orchids growth characteristic, epiphytic amount 38, terrestic 5, and litofit 2, while the type its growth dominated by simpodial orchid amount 26 types. Type many found that was Eulophia spectabilis. Based on the height of place, type grow in higher position was Trichotosia sp that is 1252 m dpl while lower position was Bulbophyllum sp.2, Dendrobium stuartii, Oberonia sp.1, Pholidota sp.2, dan Luisia sp.1 that is 764 m dpl. Based on light intensity visually, the most commonly found orchid in the light intensity is half as much as 35. Keywords: Natural orchids, Epiphytic, Resort Balocci, Bantimurung Bulusaraung National Park Area

scholarly journals Overlap of Pseudohypoparathyroidism and Primary Hyperparathyroidism in a Patient: Just a Coincidence?

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 128-130
Author(s):  
Ana Karena Neukirch ◽  
Christian Heckmann ◽  
Norbert Weyerbrock ◽  
Silke Günther ◽  
Cornelia Dotzenrath
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin D ◽  
Primary Hyperparathyroidism ◽  
Parathyroid Adenoma ◽  
Female Patient ◽  
Oral Calcium ◽  
Albright’S Hereditary Osteodystrophy ◽  
Lower Position ◽  
The Right ◽  
Inactivating Mutation ◽  
Gnas1 Gene

ABSTRACT A 56-year-old female patient with the phenotype of Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy (AHO) and pseudohypoparathyroidism 1a (PHP) diagnosed in 1987 was shown to have a heterozygote inactivating mutation on the GNAS1 gene. The patient has been treated with oral calcium and vitamin D since diagnosis of PHP 1a and developed primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) in 2009. Ultrasound as well as 99Tcsestamibi could demonstrate a lesion in the right lower position. Intraoperatively, a solitary parathyroid adenoma was found and resected leading to a ‘normalization’ of PTH and calcium. This case highlight is the rare coincidence of PHP, AHO and pHPT.

scholarly journals Affirmatives in Early Modern English

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-264
Author(s):  
Jonathan Culpeper
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Negative Questions

Abstract This study examines the affirmatives yes, yea and ay in Early Modern English, more specifically in the period 1560 to 1760. Affirmatives have an obvious role as responses to yes/no questions in dialogues, and so this study demanded the kind of dialogical material provided by the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760. I examine the meanings and contexts of usage of each affirmative: their distribution across time and text-types, their collocates and their occurrence after positive and negative questions. The results challenge a number of issues and claims in the literature, including when the “Germanic pattern” (involving yes and yea after positive or negative questions) dissolved, whether yea or ay were dialectal, and the timing of the rise of ay and the fall of yea.

How not Islam?

1977 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Cragg
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Negative Questions

A decent interval has elapsed since the publication, in Religious Studies, Vol. 11 (1975), pp. 167–79, of Professor R. C. Zaehner's article: ‘Why Not Islam?’ The question, an intriguing one, was answered there with such ambivalence that a cynic might be forgiven for thinking he was being trifled with, while a well-wisher could easily be lost in confusion. The Professor commended Islam from the angle least worthy to command credence or to merit acceptance. His case for Islam had about it an air of almost perverse pleading, identifying Islam's main asset as an authoritarian simplicity suited to simple minds. The writer appeared to be withholding his own position by the very form of his advocacy. The article could equally be read as a subtle dissuasive. ’Sadly, debate cannot now be joined. For the piece must have been among the very last the author published. Death, as with Dickens and the mystery of Edwin Drood, silences inquiry about the puzzle of his intentions. It would be unseemly to have pressed the issues too sharply or too soon. But, at this distance of time, it may be possible to wonder in print about what Professor Zaehner's purpose really was. ’Why not…?’ is a question which it is always well for us to ask about alternatives within the human, or the religious, scene. Negative questions, as the Latin grammarians have it, expect the answer Yes. ’Why not X,’ however, when it comes to grips, has to pass into reasons why in the affirmative. It is in doing so that Zaehner offers what, on many counts, would seem to be dubious, even un-Islamic, reasons for his pleas.

Children's Judgments of Negative Questions

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuko Hiramatsu
Keyword(s):  
Negative Questions
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