On the decline of edge-fronting from Latin to Romance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Ledgeway
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Intermediate Position ◽  
Gradual Shift ◽  
Initial Setting ◽  
Head Parameter

Discontinuous structures produced by edge-fronting represent one distinctive feature of Latin regarding Romance. This difference follows from the head parameter: whereas Romance is consistently head-initial, Latin fluctuates between different settings as a result of its occupying an intermediate position in the gradual shift from head-finality to head-initiality. In turn, this difference in the head parameter is responsible for the observed variation in edge-fronting, since its setting determines the application of antilocality in constraining movement. Concretely, if head-finality is the output of a roll-up operation raising the complement to the specifier to the left of its head, suspension of antilocality constitutes a sine qua non for head-final languages like Latin. In Romance, by contrast, the head parameter is aligned with the head-initial setting such that roll-up (hence antilocal) movement never arises. This investigation thus derives from the different settings of the head parameter a concomitant parametrization in the role of antilocality.

The semiotics of movement and mobility

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Theo van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Movement Direction ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Live Action ◽  
Film And Video

The paper presents a framework for the distinctive feature analysis of movement and mobility in texts, performances and semiotic artefacts, showing its applicability to the analysis of meaning-making in dance, music, animated and live action film and video, and product design. Emphasis is placed on the role of movement and mobility in identity design. Identity design is realized by the style in which movements are performed and can be analysed in terms of the gradable distinctive features present in any movement – direction, expansiveness, velocity, force, angularity, fluidity, directedness and regularity. The paper includes a historical dimension, focusing on the development of movement and mobility as semiotic resources, and argues for the pioneering role of modernist artists in this development.

On apposition

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Acuña-Fariña
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Local Domain ◽  
Syntactic Relation ◽  
The Hill

This paper seeks to redefine apposition, a term that is often used in the literature with a remarkable lack of precision. Starting from paradigmatic instances of apposition (Romulus, the legendary founder; Santiago, the capital of Galicia), the main resemblances to the paradigm are analysed in an attempt to measure the validity of a general syntactic relation that is often put on a par with co-ordination and dependency. Paradigmatic appositions and other related nominal patterns are shown to be structures of nonrestrictive modification (i.e. not really appositions) which are best understood in reference to the concept of a Local Domain. The second unit of these structures has its scope in the local domain of the first unit, of which it is an expansion, not in the larger domain of the sentence. By contrast, most instances of non-nominal apposition (e.g. He ran – absolutely raced – up the hill; Burton-Roberts, 1975) are seen as true appositions, as defined in this paper, namely as structures whose two units relate independently to a Sentence Domain without forming a superordinate node in it. Crucial to the distinction between the Local and the Sentence domains is the role of intonation boundaries. These are strongly obligatory only with those structures which have been considered paradigmatic appositions in the literature (Romulus, the legendary founder), and their role is to isolate the second unit within them from the remainder of the sentence, thus preventing it from having a function in it. The intonation boundaries are also responsible for the most distinctive feature of these structures, namely the predicative relationship binding the two units together (Dupont, 1985; Koktová, 1985; Longrée, 1987; Forsgren, 1988).

Termites of the Top End

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
AN Andersen ◽  
P Jacklyn
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Termite Mounds ◽  
The World

Termite mounds are a distinctive feature of Australia's Top End, and the role of termites is crucial to ecosystems in this part of the world. It is estimated that more than 100 species of termites inhabit the Top End, but little is known about many of these. Termites of the Top End is an attractively illustrated, popular guide for anyone interested in these fascinating insects, and will be useful to students, amateur naturalists and researchers alike. Detail is provided on the six species most likely to be encountered and recognised.

scholarly journals Criminal Proceedings: At the Intersection of Law and Economics

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
S. O. Makhtyuk
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Law And Economics ◽  
Economic Regulation ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Modern Level

The paper demonstrates the connection between law and economics. The criminal procedure is considered from new positions of economic regulation. The main narrative of the work is the possibility and necessity of perceiving criminal proceedings as a system that exists not only according to the laws of jurisprudence. The importance of the synthesis of criminal procedural law and economics is dictated by the modern level of development of scientific knowledge, technologies and ideas. The traditional division of sciences is gradually giving way to complex, interdisciplinary research. The activity of subjects of criminal proceedings is no exception. The existing reality dictates: the investigation of criminal cases is a criminal procedural services provided by the investigation, prosecutor’s office and court on behalf of the state. Interaction with the consumers of these services in the person of citizens and the organization, the order and mechanism of cooperation of the competent authorities themselves with each other — this understanding makes the use of economic laws justified for the most effective criminal proceedings. The presented study makes it possible to re-evaluate the qualitative volume of criminal proceedings and offers a topical discourse on the role of seemingly completely different sciences in solving the problems of criminal justice. A distinctive feature of the work is the use of modern opinions, sources and materials in the preparation of the theses outlined in it.

scholarly journals Logophoricity and shifts of perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-99
Author(s):  
Tatiana Nikitina
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Lexical Representation ◽  
Intermediate Position ◽  
First Person ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Linguistic Differences ◽  
Attitude Reports ◽  
Third Person ◽  
And Shifts

Abstract This study presents a typology of existing approaches to logophoricity and discusses problems the different approaches face. It addresses, in particular, perspective-based accounts describing constructions with logophoric pronouns in terms of their intermediate position on the direct-indirect continuum (Evans 2013), and lexical accounts incorporating the idea of coreference with the reported speaker into the pronoun’s meaning, either through role-to-value mapping mechanisms (Nikitina 2012a, b), or through feature specification (Schlenker 2003a, b). The perspective-based approach is shown to be unsatisfactory when it comes to treating language-specific data in precise and cross-linguistically comparable terms. It fails to account, for example, for cross-linguistic differences in the behavior of logophoric pronouns, for their optionality, and for their close diachronic relationship to third person elements. Lexical accounts are better equipped to handle a variety of outstanding issues, but they, too, need to be revised to accommodate a variety of discourse phenomena associated with logophoricity, including alternation with first person pronouns. The proposed solution follows the lines of lexical approaches but aims at enriching the pronouns’ lexical representation with notions pertaining to narrative structure, such as the role of Narrator. A separate solution is proposed for treating conventionalized uses occurring outside speech and attitude reports.

scholarly journals EDUCATIONAL AND COGNITIVE VALUE OF LEZGIN FOLK RIDDLES

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-60
Author(s):  
Aida Ruslanovna Gasharova
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
School Age ◽  
Cognitive Value ◽  
Learning Function ◽  
Primary School Age

The article considers the role of Lezgin folk riddles in the educational process. A distinctive feature of riddles as a folklore genre is the exceptional power of emotional impact on the listener. Initially, they developed and were popular among adults, but gradually moved into the category of genres of children's folklore. Their educational and cognitive value lies in the intellectual development and learning function of children of preschool and primary school age. In this regard the study of riddles has a scientific and practical-pedagogical value.

The Artistic Performances in the Works of Elin Pelin

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 598-603
Author(s):  
Bilyana Nikolova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature

The research presents the creative world in the stories of Elin Pelin. The period of his development as a writer is tracked. The characters are presented with their positive and negative features. Described are the dialogue, which is a distinctive feature of the author’s stories, the role of the landscapes without which the development of the action is unthinkable, and the atmosphere in the Bulgarian village.

The Klezmer Accordion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
Italian American ◽  
Integral Element ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
At Home ◽  
Solo Instrument

This chapter takes a closer look at the role of the accordion in klezmer music. Like the pioneering Italian American virtuoso accordionists, Jewish musicians felt equally at home playing classical and folk music. The select analysis of early accordion playing styles and stylistic characteristics sheds light on the interaction and interplay of klezmer musicians with their surrounding worlds—Old and New. A distinctive feature of the early “klezmer sound” was the accordion's imitation of the human voice heard in liturgical, paraliturgical, and Yiddish song. By the late 1930s, the accordion was often used for chordal accompaniment (rather than as a solo instrument). It was an integral element of the popular Hasidic bands of the 1960s and the “klezmer ensembles” that embraced the new Israeli music as well as earlier “Palestinian” music. Although it was often deemed “an outsider,” for the revivalists of the 1980s and beyond, the accordion has been characteristic of the klezmer style.

1 The Great Enterprise Gets Underway (1946–1955)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pace John P
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Unsuccessful Attempt ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Holistic Concept ◽  
Initial Setting ◽  
Civil And Political Rights ◽  
The United Nations

This chapter describes the formation of the Commission on Human Rights following the coming into force of Charter of the United Nations. It then discusses the developments immediately following the launch of the Commission on Human Rights, notably the unsuccessful attempt to maintain an integral, holistic concept of human rights. It describes the role of the Commission in drafting the International Bill of Human Rights during the first seven years of its existence. It dwells on the challenge of maintaining a unitary Convention and the eventual separation of civil and political rights, and economic, social and cultural rights into two Covenants, and the related challenge of implementation. It describes the initial setting up of Sub-Commissions, followed by the emergence of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, and its fluctuating relations with the Commission in the years that followed.

Discontinuous constituents or independent constructions?

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomas Huumo ◽  
Jaakko Leino
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Intermediate Position ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Grammar ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
The One ◽  
Formal Theories

In many formal theories of grammar, pairs of expressions such as the active and the passive are treated as variants of each other — the passive typically being a secondary construction derived from the active by operations that change the syntactic structure. Recent accounts based on Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar have questioned the validity of such an analysis, arguing that these “variants” are actually independent constructions with their own usage conditions and meaning. An important piece of evidence comes from so-called split constituents, discussed by Croft (2001: 191), who argues that expressions like A guy who I hadn’t seen since high school came in vs. A guy came in who I hadn’t seen since high school differ in their grammatical structure and usage. In this paper we discuss the Finnish split genitive construction where the assumed genitive modifier is separated from its head by intervening material, typically the finite verb. In many respects, the split genitive resembles constructions of external possession, but its range of usage is relatively limited, and in the grammatical system of Finnish it can be seen in an intermediate position between adnominal genitive constructions, on the one hand, and productive external possessor constructions based on local cases, on the other hand. Traditionally, the split genitive has been taken to be a discontinuous variant of a contiguous NP where the genitive is positioned next to its head. However, this study shows that the two constructions differ in pragmatic, semantic and grammatical terms. The split genitive construction is more limited in its usage, and it serves more specific semantic functions such as the topicalization of the genitive-marked element that carries the role of an experiencer. As in many external possessor constructions cross-linguistically, these constraints restrict the types of genitive modifiers that are available in the split genitive construction.

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