Definite description of episodic free relatives in Jordanian Arabic: A choice function analysis

Lingua ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 103096
Author(s):  
Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal
Keyword(s):  
Choice Function ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Definite Description ◽  
Jordanian Arabic ◽  
Free Relatives

scholarly journals Expletive agreement, evidentiality, and modality in Logooli

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 1063 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gluckman ◽  
Margit Bowler
Keyword(s):  
Choice Function ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Choice Functions ◽  
Original Proposal ◽  
Subject Agreement ◽  
Modal Base

We discuss and analyze two subject agreement markers in Logooli (Bantu,Kenya). We show that e- (class 9 subject agreement) and ga- (class 6 subjectagreement) give rise to a variety of apparently evidential or modal meanings whenthey occur in constructions translated with "expletive" subjects. We propose atreatment of the Logooli data following Matthewson, et al. (2007)'s and Rullmann,et al. (2008)'s choice function analysis of modality and evidentiality in St'át'imcets,and extend their original proposal to account for novel data in Logooli. We showthat these two morphemes occur only with verbs that introduce modal bases, andpropose that they differ from one another in the size of the subset of possible worldsthat their associated choice functions select from the modal base. This in turn resultsin different interpretations based on the size of the subset of worlds that they select,the speaker's ordering source, and the modal base provided by the verb.

Sensory and Cognitive Components of Auditory Processing in Individuals With Tinnitus

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 834-842
Author(s):  
Harini Vasudevan ◽  
Hari Prakash Palaniswamy ◽  
Ramaswamy Balakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
Auditory Processing ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Oscillatory Activity ◽  
Default Mode ◽  
Auditory Selective Attention ◽  
Cognitive Components ◽  
Mode Function ◽  
Related Potentials

Purpose The main purpose of the study is to explore the auditory selective attention abilities (using event-related potentials) and the neuronal oscillatory activity in the default mode network sites (using electroencephalogram [EEG]) in individuals with tinnitus. Method Auditory selective attention was measured using P300, and the resting state EEG was assessed using the default mode function analysis. Ten individuals with continuous and bothersome tinnitus along with 10 age- and gender-matched control participants underwent event-related potential testing and 5 min of EEG recording (at wakeful rest). Results Individuals with tinnitus were observed to have larger N1 and P3 amplitudes along with prolonged P3 latency. The default mode function analysis revealed no significant oscillatory differences between the groups. Conclusion The current study shows changes in both the early sensory and late cognitive components of auditory processing. The change in the P3 component is suggestive of selective auditory attention deficit, and the sensory component (N1) suggests an altered bottom-up processing in individuals with tinnitus.

Diagnoses Generated by Numerical Taxonomic Methods Applied to Standard Blood Variables

1980 ◽  
Vol 19 (04) ◽  
pp. 205-209
Author(s):  
L. A. Abbott ◽  
J. B. Mitton
Keyword(s):  
Liver Cirrhosis ◽  
Renal Disease ◽  
Principal Components Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Function ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Discriminant Function Analysis ◽  
Chronic Renal Disease ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Infectious Hepatitis ◽  
Components Analysis

Data taken from the blood of 262 patients diagnosed for malabsorption, elective cholecystectomy, acute cholecystitis, infectious hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, or chronic renal disease were analyzed with three numerical taxonomy (NT) methods : cluster analysis, principal components analysis, and discriminant function analysis. Principal components analysis revealed discrete clusters of patients suffering from chronic renal disease, liver cirrhosis, and infectious hepatitis, which could be displayed by NT clustering as well as by plotting, but other disease groups were poorly defined. Sharper resolution of the same disease groups was attained by discriminant function analysis.

Coagulation parameters and platelet function analysis in patients with acromegaly

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamiyet Yilmaz Yasar ◽  
Mustafa Demirpence ◽  
Ayfer Colak ◽  
Banu Ozturk Ceyhan ◽  
Yusuf Temel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Platelet Function ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Coagulation Parameters

'God' the name

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Earl Stanley Bragado Fronda
Keyword(s):  
Definite Description ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Descriptive Names ◽  
Jack The Ripper

The word ‘God’ is typically thought to be a proper name, a name of a defined entity. From another position it appears to be a description that is fundamentally synonymous to ‘the first of all causes’, or ‘the font et origo of the structure of possibilities’, or ‘the provenience of being’, or ‘the generator of existence’. This lends credence to the view that ‘God’ is a truncated definite description. However, this article proposes that ‘God’ is a name given to whatever is that which is the first of all causes, the font et origo of the structure of possibilities, the provenience of being, the generator of existence. If so, then it is a descriptive name. Yet even among descriptive names ‘God’ is unique, for it is neither convertible to a proper name (unlike ‘Neptune’), nor to a definite description (unlike ‘Jack the Ripper’ and ‘Deep Throat’). ‘God’ is an inveterate descriptive name.

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