Head-Based Syntactic Identity in Sluicing

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniz Rudin
Keyword(s):  
Concrete Application ◽  
Syntactic Identity ◽  
Syntactic Differences ◽  
Verbal Complex

This article puts forward two distinct arguments regarding the condition on identity between antecedent and ellipsis site that governs the grammaticality of sluices. The first argument is that the viability of a requirement of syntactic identity has been too hastily dismissed. Such a condition is viable if syntactic identity is not assessed over the entire deleted constituent, but instead is assessed head-by-head for each head stranded in the ellipsis site. This allows syntactic differences associated with material that has moved out of the ellipsis site to not affect the calculation of syntactic identity. The second argument is that the bestiary of possible mismatches under sluicing can be given a uniform syntactic characterization: all and only material originating outside of the verbal complex can be mismatched under sluicing. The restriction of identity conditions to the verbal complex is implementable in many (but not all) approaches to ellipsis identity; I provide a concrete application of it to the proposed head-based syntactic identity condition.

Naturalized Aesthetics and Emotion Theory

Projections ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Reisenzein
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Third Culture ◽  
Extended Version ◽  
Basic Emotions ◽  
The Third ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Concrete Application ◽  
Emotion Theory

Murray Smith’s proposal in Film, Art, and the Third Culture for a naturalized aesthetics is of interest to both film theorists and psychologists: for the former, it helps to elucidate how films work; for the latter, it provides concrete application cases of psychological theories. However, there are reasons for believing that the theory of emotions that Smith has adopted from psychology to ground his case studies—an extended version of basic emotions theory—is less well supported than he suggests. The available empirical evidence seems more compatible with the assumption that the different emotions are outputs of a single, integrated system.

scholarly journals Converting Consumerism: A Liturgical-Ethical Application of Critical Realism

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
Benjamin Durheim
Keyword(s):  
Critical Realism ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Liturgical Theology ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Christian Conversion ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
Concrete Application

Critical realism as a lens of thought is not new to theological inquiry, but recently a growing number of theologians have been using its conceptual frameworks to guide their thought on how social structures function theologically, and how ethics might function in light of its insights. This article pulls these developments into the nexus of liturgy and ethics, applying critical realist categories to contemporary understandings of how liturgical celebration (and the structures thereof) form, inform, and/or malform Christian ethical imaginations and practices. The article begins with a brief survey of the main tenets of critical realism and their histories in theological inquiry, and argues that a main gift critical realism can offer liturgical and sacramental theology is a structural understanding of liturgical narrative- and value-building. Having described this gift, the article moves to a concrete application of this method in liturgical theology and its implications for ethics: addressing consumerism as a culture that can be both validated and challenged by liturgical and sacramental structures. The article ends with some brief suggestions for using and shifting liturgical structures to better facilitate the Christian conversion of consumerism.

scholarly journals Memory for syntactic differences in mental illness descriptions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily N. Line ◽  
Samantha Roberts ◽  
Zachary Horne
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
American Psychiatric Association ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Semantic Cues ◽  
The People ◽  
Syntactic Differences

The American Psychiatric Association recommends that practitioners should discuss mental illnesses using person-first, or comparatively state-based language, rather than trait-based language. The aim of this initiative is both to avoid treating the symptoms of an illness as a defining characteristic of the people who experience these symptoms and to reduce the stigmatization of mental illness. However, some of the implications of these initiatives have not been tested. Here, we investigate one of these implications - people's memory for changes in syntactic constructions in descriptions of mental illness. In two experiments, we found that people fail to remember subtle syntactic changes which shift descriptions from trait to state-based constructions. Instead, participants falsely remembered a protagonist as having a mental illness even when they were only described as experiencing symptoms of this illness. We found this was the case with both proximal (Experiment 1) and more remote semantic cues (Experiment 2).

scholarly journals Study on Suitability and Behaviour of Ferrocement in Folded Plates

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VI) ◽  
pp. 3540-3546
Author(s):  
Mr. V. Karthick
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Logical Investigation ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Concrete Application ◽  
Extended Range ◽  
Properties Of Materials ◽  
Low Consumption

Ferro concrete is one of the developments arising material an alternative for the traditional RCC in numerous viewpoints. Ferro concrete is the fate of the minimal expense houses and precast houses. Folded plates are answer for the more extended range rooftops in prudent and aesthetical manner. This project consolidates the upsides of both Ferro concrete and collapsed plate. The box type Ferro concrete collapsed plates of size 0.6 m x 1.80 m x 0.15 m are casted by thinking about various diaries and RCC collapsed plates in thought while fixing dimensions. In first period of trial various properties of materials utilized for projecting are tried and compressive strength of the mortar utilized is tried, the test is done at 1:2 of concrete: sand proportion and 0.35 water concrete ratio. In second stage the example is casted with Stainless Steel cross section of 2 mm opening is utilized and 2 layers on front and posteriors of 6mm width 150m divided skeleton steel is laid. The projected examples is tried for 28 days strength in stacking outline and the outcomes are contrasted and logical investigation Using ANSYS for load versus redirection and reasonableness of Ferro concrete application in collapsed plates are studies. The test results are shown acceptable outcomes, at last with low consumption and low self-weight Ferro concrete constructions are acceptable substitute for RCC.

scholarly journals Negative Words in Comparative Structures in French and Their Equivalents in Serbian

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-24
Author(s):  
Ljubica Vlahović ◽  
Snežana Gudurić
Keyword(s):  
Negative Word ◽  
Main Clause ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
Functional Equivalence ◽  
Comparative Constructions ◽  
Syntactic Differences ◽  
Dependent Clause

In French and Serbian comparative constructions of equality and inequality, negative words are distributed according to their forms, meanings and functions.French negative words - ne most frequently complemented by a particle pas or some other negative word, a double particle ni…ni, as well as negative ne and a double particle ni…ni in Serbian appear in the main clause (but not in the dependent clause) of comparative constructions of equality and inequality. In comparative constructions of inequality with a positive main clause, French expletive ne appears in the dependent clause with the verb, while its equivalent in Serbian nego or no occurs as a connector at the beginning of the dependent clause.Negative words in the main clause of comparative constructions of equality make the French antecedents flexible: the reduced form si alternates with aussi, as well as reduced tant with autant, and Serbian ones stable: reduced tako (from isto tako) and reduced toliko (from isto toliko) are mandatory.The autonomous word isto (easily detachable) serves to enhance the meaning of equality.The French comparative constructions of inequality with a negative main clause may have a dependent clause without or with an expletive ne, while the equivalent Serbian constructions always have a dependent clause with nego or no containing an expletive ne.There is a semantic and a functional equivalence between the French and Serbian constructions, with some syntactic differences due to the systems of two languages.

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