Interaction, Satisfaction, and the PCC

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-80
Author(s):  
Amy Rose Deal
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Agree Ii ◽  
Indirect Object ◽  
Syntactic Features ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
Person Case Constraint ◽  
Satisfaction Theory ◽  
The Way

Abstract The person-case constraint (PCC) is a family of restrictions on the relative person of the two objects of a ditransitive. PCC effects offer a testing ground for theories of the Agree operation and of syntactic features, both those on nominals and (of special interest here) those found on agreement probes. In this paper, I offer a new theory of PCC effects in an interaction/satisfaction theory of Agree (Deal 2015a) and show the advantages of this framework in capturing PCC typology. On this model, probes are specified for interaction features, determining which features will be copied to them, and satisfaction features, determining which features will cause probing to stop. Applied to PCC, this theory (i) captures all four types of PCC effect recognized by Nevins (2007) under a unified notion of Agree; (ii) captures the restriction of PCC effects to contexts of “Double Weakness” in many prominent examples, e.g. in Italian, Greek, and Basque, where PCC effects hold only in cases where both the direct and indirect object are expressed with clitics; (iii) naturally extends to PCC effects in syntactic environments without visible clitics or agreement for one or both objects, as well as the absence of PCC effects in some languages with clitics or agreement for both the direct and indirect object. Two refinements of the interaction/satisfaction theory are offered. The first is a new notation for probes’ interaction and satisfaction specifications, clarifying the absence from this theory of uninterpretable/unvalued features as drivers of Agree. The second is a proposal for the way that probes’ behavior may change over the course of a derivation, dubbed dynamic interaction.

Constructivism, Intuitionism, and Ecumenism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron James
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Henry Sidgwick ◽  
The Way

Constructivism and intuitionism are often seen as opposed methods of justification in political philosophy. An “ecumenical” view sees them as different but unopposed: each style of reasoning can yield fundamental principles, for different questions of distributive justice, and we can rightly take up different questions, with different, equally valid, theoretical objectives, in hopes of cultivating a thousand blooming flowers. This chapter develops this position with special interest in Rawls’s constructivism, his treatment of reflective equilibrium, self-evidence, and “moral geometry,” and his evolving dialogue with the intuitionist Henry Sidgwick. Rawls’s main difference from Sidgwick lies in the way he frames the question of right or justice in the first instance. This brings out both the possibility and the attractions of the ecumenist conception in political philosophy.

Abduction and Web Interface Design

2006 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Magnani ◽  
Emanuele Bardone
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Web Interface ◽  
Important Respect ◽  
Web Interface Design ◽  
Epistemological Point ◽  
The Way

According to Raskin (2000), the way we interact with a product, what we do, and how it responds are what define an interface. This is a good starting definition in one important respect: an interface is not something given or an entirely predefined property, but it is the dynamic interaction that actually takes place when a product meets the users. More precisely, an interface is that interaction that mediates the relation between the user and a tool explaining which approach is necessary to exploit its functions. Hence, an interface can be considered a mediating structure. A useful exemplification of a mediating structure is provided by the so-called stigmergy. Looking at the animal-animal interactions, Raskin (2000) noted that termites were able to put up their collective nest, even if they did not seem to collaborate or communicate with each other. The explanation provided by Grassé (Susi et al., 2001) is that termites do interact with each other, even if their interactions are mediated through the environment. According to the stigmergy theory, each termite acts upon the work environment, changing it in a certain way. The environment physically encodes and stores the change made upon it so that every change becomes a clue that affects a certain reaction from it. Analogously, we might claim that an interface mediates the relation between the user and a tool affording him or her to use it a certain way1. Understanding the kind of mediation involved can be fruitfully investigated from an epistemological point of view. More precisely, we claim that the process of mediating can be understood better when it is considered to be an inferential one.

Parallel Computation in Word Formation

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis López
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Computation ◽  
Parallel Computations ◽  
Event Structure ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Distributed Morphology ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Morphology Model ◽  
The Way

Taking the Distributed Morphology model as a starting point, this article presents and develops the hypothesis that parallel computations drive some word formation processes. Along the way, some Distributed Morphology assumptions, particularly those concerning contextual allomorphy, are revised. It is argued that event structure is a syntactic head independent of the presence of a vP. Nominalizations in Spanish, which often exhibit verbal thematic vowels between the root and the nominalizing affix, turn out to be an ideal testing ground for theoretical hypotheses.

scholarly journals SPECTRAL QUADRUPLES

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (04n06) ◽  
pp. 291-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOMÁŠ KOPF ◽  
MARIO PASCHKE
Keyword(s):  
De Sitter Space ◽  
Space Time ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Way

A set of data is supposed to give possible axioms for space–times. It is hoped that such a proposal can serve to become a testing ground on the way to a general formulation. At the moment, the axioms are known to be sufficient for cases with a sufficient number of symmetries, in particular for 1+1 de Sitter space–time.

DICTIONARIES OF "MUSALLAS"PLACE IN ARABIC LEXICOGRAPHY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-90
Author(s):  
Sirojiddin Sotvoldiev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
Language System ◽  
Syntactic Features ◽  
History Of ◽  
General Linguistic ◽  
The Way

If you look at the history of the Arabic language and writing, its role in human civilization, the way of its own development, and the lexical, morphological and syntactic features that are not encountered in any other language system are evident. This requires a separate approach to each process undergoing it. In particular, the study of the phenomenon of aromatic, paronimic, and variation in Arabic on general linguistic principles may not lead to the intended result. It is important to consider not only the pronunciation but also the peculiarities of the writing

Basil Bunting's Briggflatts : a case study in intonational prosody

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Ian Pople
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Features ◽  
Modification Effect ◽  
Basil Bunting ◽  
Post Modification ◽  
The Way

In this article I wish to contribute to the analysis of prosody in poetry by looking at free or 'unmetred' verse. In particular I focus on the way in which the tools for analysing intonation may be used for analysing the performance of poetry in order to examine the way lineation is formed in unmetred verse. I look at the way tone-unit boundaries are often co-extensive with line endings in unmetred verse. The article follows work in this kind of analysis by Crystal (1975) and concentrates on the poem Briggflatts by Basil Bunting. Syntactic features such as ellipsis and pre- and post-modification effect the placement of tone-unit boundaries. Line endings may also be effected by the poet's use of marked emphases, and by the influence of other prosodies which a sophisticated poet may bring to bear on his material.

The Pathway from Negatives to Question Particles

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-chuan WEI
Keyword(s):  
Tang Dynasty ◽  
Han Dynasty ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Negative Part ◽  
The Tang Dynasty ◽  
Chinese Dialects ◽  
The Way

There is a great number of question particles in Chinese dialects that can be traced back to the negatives bu 不 and wu 無, which appeared in the negative part of A-not-A questions before turning into question particles. It remains debatable when and how this change occurred. We pinpoint the time when these two negatives changed into question particles according to several criteria in this paper. The time when bu became used as a question particle can be roughly dated to the Later Han dynasty and that of wu to the Tang dynasty, and the characters for these two words were then replaced by others. The interaction between bu and wu in history draws a picture of dynamic interaction. Some dialects show an extension from bu to wu, and some the other way round; the former is predominant in Middle Chinese, and the latter after the Tang dynasty. The way that bu changed into a question particle appears different from wu, which can be depicted as follows: The negative bu might have been seen as equivalent to the question particles hu 乎 and ye 耶 by holding a position identical to these two particles, which lost their function of interrogation and, as a result, were supplanted by bu subsequently. As a negative, wu is not only parallel with bu in syntactic behaviors, but also overlaps with the latter in the history, which made wu turn into a question particle after bu had done so.

scholarly journals “Deterritorializing the Canadian Museum for Human Rights”

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-97
Author(s):  
Adam Muller
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Expressive Power ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Assemblage Theory ◽  
Overlapping Clusters ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Formidable Challenge ◽  
The Way

 This article explains the value of assemblage theory to making sense of a museum like the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), which has struggled with the formidable challenge of comparatively representing human rights in controversial cultural and historical contexts. I argue that “assemblage thinking” permits us to appreciate more richly the way in which the expressive power of the CMHR arises from the dynamic interaction/intersection of overlapping clusters of objects, spaces, ideologies, memories, feelings, structures, histories, and experiences.  Understood as “assemblages,” these clusters in important (but not all) ways lie beyond the scope of formal agency such as that exercised by curators and museum administrators. Accordingly, we must understand museums generally, and the CMHR particularly, as fundamentally unable guarantee the integrity and perdurability of their/its own structures and meanings, and recognize these meanings (and a museum’s identity) as irreducibly open-ended and provisional. 

scholarly journals THE INSTITUTE OF UNWORTHY HEIRS IN THE COURT PRACTICE

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 33-36
Author(s):  
Sergey A. Mozhilyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Court Practice ◽  
The Way

The article is dedicated to the issues arising in practice of using the provisions on unworthy heirs of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation establish only assessment categories, using which the courts assess the actions of supposed heirs by implementing its discrete authorities. Unfortunately, Article 1117 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation has no answer to the question on the mechanism of an unworthy heir recognition, the standard of proving within similar court dispute, jurisdiction and procedure of dispute review. Of special interest is an issue on recognition of unworthy heirs who have deliberately evaded obligations to support the testator as the available court practice is rather contradicting and inconsistent. The article considers practical issues of implementing the way to protect the rights of heirs specified in Article 1117 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation arising within activities of courts of general jurisdiction.

History in the Ylias and Alexandreis

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-122
Author(s):  
Justin A. Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Historical Text ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
History And Myth ◽  
The Way

This chapter argues that the Alexandreis and Ylias reflect the way that Virgil was believed, in the twelfth century, to have constructed history and myth in the Aeneid. The key witnesses to the twelfth-century perception of history in the Aeneid are the “Anselm” commentary on the Aeneid and Servius, which was ubiquitous in the period and determined the shape of most other available commentaries on the Aeneid. Servius’s understanding of history (historia) and myth (fabula), and especially anachronism, is discussed in detail. Servius reads the Aeneid as a historical text which, although often bending the historical truth, did so with intentional allusion to specific historical events or alternate historical possibilities. The Alexandreis’s and the Ylias’s special interest in historical truth (historia) accords well with the way in which the Aeneid was read in the twelfth century.

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