Negative concord in the Old and New World: Evidence from Scotland

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Smith
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Negative Concord ◽  
Old World ◽  
Colonization Period

In this article, I conduct a quantitative analysis of negative concord in Buckie, a relic dialect from the northeast of Scotland, and compare these findings with transported varieties of English in North America. Two major results arise from the analysis. First, Buckie has high rates of use of negative concord to indeterminates within the same clause, as do all the dialects included in the study. Second, negative concord in other environments is found in certain varieties in the New World that have no counterparts in the Old World. I suggest that the quantitative similarities can be explained in terms of the primitive status of negative concord in vernacular varieties of English, in combination with a shared linguistic heritage during the colonial period. The qualitative differences demonstrate that contexts of linguistic heterogeneity in North America during the early colonization period led to an extension and restructuring of the original rules.

scholarly journals Multiple Introductions of the Old World Begomovirus Tomato yellow leaf curl virus into the New World

2007 ◽  
Vol 73 (21) ◽  
pp. 7114-7117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobain Duffy ◽  
Edward C. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Tomato Yellow Leaf ◽  
Yellow Leaf ◽  
Old World ◽  
Multiple Introductions ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Genomic Regions ◽  
Leaf Curl Virus ◽  
Leaf Curl

ABSTRACT A phylogenetic analysis of three genomic regions revealed that Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) from western North America is distinct from TYLCV isolated in eastern North America and the Caribbean. This analysis supports a second introduction of this Old World begomovirus into the New World, most likely from Asia.

A Note on the Occurrence of Catallagia dacenkoi Ioff in North America, with the Description of a Nearctic Subspecies (Siphonaptera: Neopsyllidae)

1951 ◽  
Vol 83 (6) ◽  
pp. 156-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
George P. Holland
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Host Association ◽  
Northern Asia ◽  
Old World ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
Close Affinity ◽  
Central Russia

As the flea fauna of mammals of northern North America becomes better known, its very close affinity with that of temperate and northern Asia becomes more apparent. Many of the genera are holarctic and are associated with holarctic genera of mammals. In a few instances, the fleas of the Old World and the New World are so similar in morphological details and host association that they are regarded as subspecies. For example, Amphipsylla sibirica (Wagner), Malaraeus penicilliger (Grube), Megabothris calcarifer (Wagner), and Hoplopsyllus glacialis (Taschenberg) have representatives in both the nearctic and the palaearctic regions. To this list must now be added Catallagia dacenkoi Ioff, a parasite of Microtinae; this species was described originally (Ioff, 1940, pp. 216-217) from the Altai Mountains of central Russia, and a new subspecies has now been discovered in northern Canada and Alaska.

Some Amerasian Pottery Traits in North Asian Prehistory

1953 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Tolstoy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Eastern Siberia ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Subject

Asiatic origins have, at one time or another, been suggested or at least considered for a number of traits connected with the manufacture and decoration of the earlier New World pottery. The well-known paper by McKern (1937) is among the most explicit statements on the subject. Griffin (1946; Sears and Griffin 1950a) has held similar views for some time. Like McKern, he has primarily in mind traits of the Woodland pattern of eastern North America, although he also mentions some non-Woodland traits among those which have counterparts in the Old World (1946, p. 45).Since McKern's paper, the distribution in time of the traits involved has become a lot better established. With the help of the still suspiciously regarded radiocarbon dates, our perspective on ceramic history in the United States has been extended over a span which appears to be that of some four millennia. Among the more significant additions to the Asiatic half of the distributional picture first place must be given to recent Soviet work in eastern Siberia.

Jumping spider phylogeny (Araneae : Salticidae)

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne P. Maddison ◽  
Marshal C. Hedin
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Jumping Spider ◽  
Old World ◽  
Jumping Spiders

A phylogenetic analysis of five sequenced genes (28S, 16S, EF1-α, CO1, ND1) from 81 genera of jumping spiders (Salticidae) and five outgroups supports the monophyly of the Dendryphantinae and Euophryinae and refines the concepts of the Plexippinae and Pelleninae. The clade that excludes lyssomanines and spartaeines and contains the bulk of salticid species is formally named as the Salticoida. The previously proposed clade delimited by an embolus articulated and separated from the tegulum by a developed distal hematodocha (as opposed to fused immovably to the tegulum) is rejected, suggesting the 'free embolus' evolved independently several times. Three major clades are discovered, the Marpissoida (including Dendryphantinae, Marpissinae and smaller groups such as synagelines), the Plexippoida (plexippines plus pellenines) and the Amycoida (including Amycinae, Sitticinae, Hyetusseae, Hurieae, Synemosyninae). The amycoids form a large neotropical radiation from which only a single known group (Sitticus and Attulus) has reached the Old World. The marpissoids also constitute a major New World group with relatively few species in the Old World. In contrast, the Plexippoida is predominantly an Old World group (except for the spectacular radiation of Habronattus in North America), as is the Heliophaninae. These results suggest that much of salticid diversification occurred after the separation of the continents of the Old World and New World.

The Archaeology of the Lena Basin and its New World Relationships, Part I

1958 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Tolstoy
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
New World ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Bering Strait ◽  
Old World ◽  
Early Woodland ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Lena Basin

In an earlier study (Tolstoy 1953b), we attempted to outline the Old World distributions of a limited number of ceramic elements and to make a case for their introduction into North America some 3000 to 4000 years ago. Russian reports that have appeared or become available to us since then (Okladnikov 1945, 1946, 1950b, 1955a, 1955b), as well as recent work this side of Bering Strait, prompt now a review of the sequence in the Lena Basin as a whole with North America parallels in mind. The main emphasis here is on the Neolithic of the Lena drainage and Archaic to Early Woodland developments in eastern North America.

Eocene clavagellids (Mollusca: Pelecypoda) from Florida: the first documented occurrence in the Cenozoic of the Western Hemisphere

1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas S. Jones ◽  
David Nicol
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Upper Eocene ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Core

By the end of the Cretaceous, the Clavagellidae (Mollusca: Pelecypoda) maintained a distribution that was marginal to the core-Tethys, occurring in both North America and the Old World. Traditional paleozoogeographic interpretation contends that the clavagellids then went extinct in the New World because no Cenozoic fossil or living clavagellids have been documented from the Western Hemisphere. This report describes the occurrence of Eocene clavagellids from the Ocala Group of peninsular Florida. The presence of these pelecypods in Upper Eocene strata is consistent with the large Tethyan faunal component already known from this unit and requires a reassessment of Tertiary zoogeographic patterns for the clavagellids.

Bark Beetles of the Genus Carphoborus Eichhoff (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in North America

1954 ◽  
Vol 86 (11) ◽  
pp. 502-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Wood
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
North America ◽  
Tree Growth ◽  
Bark Beetles ◽  
New World ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Old World ◽  
Coniferous Trees ◽  
The North

The genus Carphoborus is widely distributed in the Holarctic realm. It occurs from the northern limits of tree growth south in the Old World to India and northern Africa and in the New World to Baja California, New Mexico, Mississippi, and Florida.All of the North American species breed in the inner bark of coniferous trees of the genera Pinus, Picea, and Pseudotsuga. Branches that are being shaded out or are broken, but still hanging in the tree, are generally preferred for the construction of galleries. A few species have been reported from slash; however, they are usually not aggressive or abundant enough to survive in competition ivith other bark beetles normally found in slash. The economic importance of the genus is not great; the hahit of breeding in the unthrifty lower branches of coniferous trees contributes slightly toward accelerating the natural pruning of the trees and consequently aids in the production of a higher quality of timber.

A cytological study of species in the Eusimulium aureum group (Diptera: Simuliidae)

1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (9) ◽  
pp. 2043-2061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin G. Leonhardt
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Chromosome Number ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
New World ◽  
Cytological Study ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Old World ◽  
Chromosomal Polymorphisms

Earlier studies by R. W. Dunbar of the monophyletic (n = 2) Eusimulium aureum group were extended. Additional samples of his forms "A" and "B" (temperate North America), "C" and "D" (northern North America), "E" and "F" (Britain, northern Europe, Leningrad), and "G" (California to Guatemala) were analyzed. Two of Dunbar's forms, "I" (Gibraltar, Britain) and "J" (Mediterranean, Madeira, Azores, Leningrad), have been redefined. "K" (Gibraltar) and "L" and "M" (Canary Islands) are new forms. These are described in terms of fixed inversion differences, sex differential segments, and chromosomal polymorphisms. In a cytophylogeny, the Old World "J" forms the link to the New World "C." A preliminary polytene banding comparison of E. aureum and its putative n = 3 relatives reveals that the Old World forms are ancestral to those of the New World. All palaearctic forms have chiasmate meiosis in males, while all nearctic ones, with the remarkable exception of "G," are male achiasmate. Since male achiasmate meiosis is presumably a prerequisite for the reduction in chromosome number, the male-chiasmate condition of Old World forms is assumed to be due to secondary reversion, a postulate that is supported by the derivative male-chiasmate condition of "G."

The Sickle in Aboriginal Western North America

1951 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Heizer
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Cereal Crops ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Old World ◽  
American Counterpart ◽  
And Function

It is generally accepted that the specialized agricultural implements and techniques, and domesticated plants (with a few possible exceptions) of the Old and New Worlds are unrelated and independently developed. Parallel developments in agricultural accessories have occurred; the hoe and irrigation are obvious exemplars. The hand sickle, used to harvest cereal crops in the Old World, and to cut wild grasses in the New World, may now be pointed out as occurring in both hemispheres. The forms, materials, and function of the Old World sickle distinguish it from that of the New World, and it would appear that there is no specific connection between the Afro-Asian sickle used in farming and its North American counterpart used predominantly by incipient or non-agricultural native groups.

scholarly journals First North American Records of the Old-World Tramp Ant Syllophopsis sechellensis(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
James Wetterer
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New World ◽  
The West ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Arrival ◽  
Tramp Ant ◽  
Old World Tropics

Syllophopsis  sechellensis  (Emery)  (formerly  Monomorium  sechellense) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is a small, inconspicuous ant species native to the Old-World tropics. Syllophopsis sechellensis is widespread in Asia and Australia, and on islands the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans. In the New  World,  all  published  records  come  from  West  Indian  islands.  Here,  I report the first records of S. sechellensis from North America: from four sites in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, Florida, more than 1500 km from the closest records in the West Indies. The ants of Florida have been well-studied in the past, so S. sechellensis appears to be a recent arrival.

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