Focus Position for Stripping Remnant

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Al Zahrani ◽  
Khulud Helal Al Thagafi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Focus Position ◽  
Focus Movement ◽  
The One ◽  
Syntactic Properties ◽  
Pf Deletion ◽  
Minimalist Framework

The current paper examines the syntactic properties of HA stripping: a type of ellipsis. Within the Minimalist framework, the paper adopts the PF-Deletion approach to show that stripping in HA is derived firstly by the movement of the remnant constituent from TP to Focus Position (FP), and, secondly, by the deletion of the TP. These two operations are licensed by the Ellipsis feature (E) located in the focus head F°. Thus, on the one hand, the paper contributes to the existing body of literature supporting the hotly-debated issues on the movement of the stripping remnants, and on the other, enriches the very minimal HA studies on ellipsis. The findings show that HA stripped constituents must move to Spec, FP, before the TP- deletion process. Two pieces of evidence in support of the focus movement to FP spring from Island sensitivity and p-stranding facts in HA.

Selfdetermination in philosophy and factical life. Some considerations about an early Heidegger lecture

Methodus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-43
Author(s):  
Francisco Abalo
Keyword(s):  
Basic Problem ◽  
Methodological Problem ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Relevant Issue ◽  
The One ◽  
Intentional Structure ◽  
Intuitive Model

The main focus of this article is the methodological problem of the selfdetermination of the philosophy according to the phenomenological analysis carried out by Heidegger in one of the lectures of his early period (the so called Früh Freiburger Vorlesungen). The general frame of the current paper implies a hermeneutical thesis according to which the relevance of the well-known “factical life” is not solely thematic but mainly methodological. This function explains why these “phenomenological exercises” are some sort of genetical enquiries. In consequence, the specific aim of this article is, on the one hand, to show that the problem of the selfdetermination of the philosophy is the document of the more basic problem of the possibility of access to the intentional structures as such. On the other hand, this implies that the facticity as the primary horizon of comprehension constitutes in deed a redrawing of the intentional structure, in such a way that it is avoided the paradoxical consequences of the reflexive-intuitive model of access to one self and makes a relevant issue to the philosophy the problematic character of the intentionality itself.

scholarly journals PHONETIC PATTERNS OF CANONICAL /ɜː/ IN THE SELEMDZHA ACCENT OF THE EVENKI LANGUAGE AND THEIR PHONOLOGICAL STATUS

2017 ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
Olga N. Morozova ◽  
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Svetlana V. Androsova ◽  
Tatiana V. Kravets ◽  
Elena A. Protsukovich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Considerable Variability ◽  
Significant Duration ◽  
Acoustic Study ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Endangered Status ◽  
Phonological System

Considerable variability of the Evenki phonological system and its realization patterns as well as its endangered status determine the urgent need for considering paradigmatic and syntagmatic phonological differences among Evenki accents and between accents and standard Evenki. The current paper presents the results of an acoustic study of a-like accent forming in the Selemdzha accent. On the one hand, the obtained results clearly indicate consistent substitute of canonical /ɜː/ with open a-like sound. On the other hand, canonical /aː/ tokens demonstrated greater openness compared to the ones that replaced canonical /ɜː/. In addition, there was considerable across-speaker variation concerning the feature of advancement-retraction. No significant duration difference was discovered. Further study is necessary to find out if the obtained acoustic difference is perceptually relevant.

Locative Complements of Verbs of Movement in Czech

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 87-113
Author(s):  
Marta Ungermanová
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The One ◽  
Syntactic Properties ◽  
Made In

This paper describes the syntactic properties of three types of locative complements in Czech that are compatible with verbs of movement. The distinction between these complements (each with its own interpretation) is made in the first place on the basis of several formal criteria (in particular, involving the rich Czech morphology), and, in addition, on semantic criteria. It is examined whether there exists sufficient correspondence between these criteria, and in particular, to what extent they can satisfactorily classify locative complements into essential and circumstantial ones. It is shown that there is no clear-cut distinction between these two categories of locative complements with Czech movement verbs. Furthermore, the syntactic role of the locative complements is shown to depend mainly on the verb, but also on other elements of the sentence. Finally, on the basis of several examples, it is argued that, on the one hand, the form of the complement does not predict its syntactic role and interpretation and, on the other hand, that two different forms can share the same syntactic role and interpretation.

scholarly journals Configuring topic in the left periphery: a case of Chicheŵa split NPs

2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-373
Author(s):  
Sam A. Mchombo ◽  
Yukiko Morimoto
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
The Other ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Left Periphery ◽  
East Central ◽  
Bantu Language ◽  
Discourse Functions ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Syntactic Properties

Chicheŵa, a Bantu language of East Central Africa, displays mixed properties of configurationality such as the existence of VP, on the one hand, and discontinuous constituents (DCs), on the other. In the present work we examine the discourse and syntactic properties of DCs, and show that DCs in Chicheŵa arise naturally from the discourse-configurational nature of the language. We argue that the fronted DCs in Chicheŵa are contrastive topics that appear in a leftdislocated external topic position, with the remnant part of the split NP in the right-dislocated topic position. Once the precise discourse functions of DCs are properly integrated into the syntactic analysis, all the facts and restrictions observed in Chicheŵa DCs can be explained in a straightforward fashion.  

The syntax and semantics of descriptive V-de constructions

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-93
Author(s):  
Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Phrase Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Event Argument ◽  
Focus Semantics ◽  
The One ◽  
Syntactic Properties ◽  
Secondary Predicates ◽  
Event Quantification ◽  
Standing Problem

Abstract This paper tackles the long-standing problem of the phrase structure of the descriptive V-de construction in Mandarin, and proposes a variant of the Primary Predication analysis. I argue that the suffix -de is a nominalizing head that turns the verb to which it attaches into a nominal event argument, which is in turn predicated over by the descriptive adjectival phrase, the primary predicate of the construction. This syntactic analysis allows for a straightforward explanation for the presupposition-focus semantics of this construction based on structured event quantification. In addition, it is shown that previous arguments that go against the Primary Predication hypothesis (including the distribution of the A-not-A form and negation, and the scope relation between an IP-level element and the adjectival phrase) either do not constitute counterevidence or are simply irrelevant. Further support for the proposal is provided that draws on a number of syntactic properties of the descriptive V-de construction and on the distinction between the descriptive adjectival phrase on the one hand and secondary predicates and adverbial adjuncts on the other hand.

Comparative Romance Syntax. Frozen Adverbs in Italian and in Portuguese

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-85
Author(s):  
Elisabete Ranchhod ◽  
Michele De Gioia
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Systematic Character ◽  
The One ◽  
Syntactic Properties ◽  
Explicit Comparison

The Lexicon-Grammar of frozen adverbs of comparison has been established for French (M. Gross 1984b), Portuguese (Marques Ranchhod 1990, 1991) and Italian (De Gioia 1994a) in a monolingual perspective. The systematic character of such descriptions allowed us to make an explicit comparison between Italian and Portuguese. The observations we made outlined, on the one hand, that the syntactic properties of these forms are analogous to those of free comparatives, and, on the other hand, that they are largely similar among the Romance languages involved.

Beyond Aristotle and gradience

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Croft
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Category Member ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
The Other ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Grammatical Categories ◽  
Distributional Patterns ◽  
The One ◽  
Syntactic Properties ◽  
Radical Construction

Aarts (2004) argues that the best way to model grammatical categories is a compromise preserving Aristotelian form classes with sharp boundaries on the one hand, and allowing gradience in terms of the number of syntactic properties that a category member possesses on the other. But the assumption of form classes causes serious theoretical and empirical problems. Constructions differ in their distributional patterns, but no a priori principles exist to decide which constructions should be used to define form classes. Grammatical categories must be defined relative to specific constructions; this is the position advocated in Radical Construction Grammar (Croft 2001). Constructionally defined categories may have sharp boundaries, but they do not divide words into form classes. Nevertheless, the most important traditional intuitions for parts of speech (Aarts’ chief examples) are reinterpretable in terms of crosslinguistic universals that constrain distributional variation but do not impose Aristotelian form classes, gradable or not, on the grammars of particular languages.

scholarly journals The Modern Quantum Computing Tools Invstigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (95) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
I. K. Bozhko ◽  
G.G. Chetverykov ◽  
О.А. Karataiev
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Quantum Computation ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Current State ◽  
Quantum Programming ◽  
The One

The current paper covers the investigation of the current state of the existing tools for quantum programming includingQCL (Quantum Computation Language), quantum pseudocode, Q# programming language and Quipper. Since quantumcomputing is one of the main research areas today, the respective tools are being created quite often. They are aimed onsimplifying the development of quantum programs, on the one hand, and provide some platform for testing and runningthem, on the other hand. So, the authors investigated the currently available tools and provided the results in the article

scholarly journals Eco Valley or New Vraja Dham? Competing Emic Interpretations of the Hungarian Krishna Valley

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 622
Author(s):  
Judit Farkas
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Ecological Aspect ◽  
Sacred Place ◽  
Sustainable Lifestyle ◽  
The One ◽  
Eco Village ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

One of the reasons for the spread of the Western Hare Krishna movement is that it offers several alternatives for the practice of religion: devotees can be full-fledged members of the church in congregations located in complex urban or in simple rural contexts. An example of the latter is Krishna Valley, where approximately 130 Krishna-devotees live austere lives. My paper presents the interpretations of this settlement concentrating on (multiple) internal (emic) views: On the one hand, I will show how the leadership of the church contextualizes and interprets Krishna Valley and how they wish the inhabitants to conceptualize it. On the other hand, I will also show what Krishna Valley means for its ordinary inhabitants and what interpretations those living there attach to it. When I was gathering material for the current paper, Krishna Valley was in flux. The settlement has always favored following a sustainable lifestyle but—due in part to the strengthening of the Hungarian eco-village movement—it was at this time that the conceptualization of Krishna Valley as an eco-village gained momentum. This was the heyday of the Eco Valley Foundation, which was to strengthen the eco-village aspect of the Valley, and in the communication of Krishna Valley the ecological aspect became paramount, drowning out all other interpretations. Not all inhabitants of the village welcomed this change and in response some began to emphasize the interpretation of Krishna Valley as a sacred place. In the current paper, I will present these two processes and the relationship between them through the lens of the interpretations of the members of the community.

scholarly journals The Structure of Split Questions in Mandarin Chinese

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Ting-Chi Wei
Keyword(s):  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Shell Structure ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
The Other ◽  
Final Particle ◽  
Focus Movement ◽  
The One ◽  
Split Questions ◽  
Empty Subject ◽  
Final Particles

AbstractThis article proposes a pro analysis for split questions (SQs) in Chinese, dissimilar to the biclausal account employing focus movement and deletion in Arregi 2010 and the one employing the silent head in Kayne 2015 and Tang 2015. SQ consists of a wh-clause and a tag clause. We argue that the entire SQ is an information/confirmation-seeking question, represented by a Speech Act Phrase (SAP)-shell structure (Speas and Tenny 2003; Oguro 2017, etc.) with wh-clause in its specifier and the tag in its complement. The tag of Chinese SQ is a base-generated clause, [pro (copula) tag ma/ne], composed of an empty subject pro, an optional copula, a tag, and a final particle, instead of being derived from a fully-fledged structure parallel to the wh-part akin to those of English and Spanish SQs. Such a pro analysis overcomes difficulties encountered in the other accounts regarding the distribution of the final particles and their clause-typing, the optionality of the copula, the ubiquitous uses of tag, the connectivity effects, and the island-insensitivity. Analytically, two seeming variants of SQ imply that the derivation of an SQ depends on whether its tag moves and whether a copula exists.

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