scholarly journals Your ns are numbered! On linking morphemes in Dutch

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Paula Fenger ◽  
Gísli Rúnar Harðarson
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Syntactic Category ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Low Expression

The expression of number (#) within the noun phrase has been argued tovary between a high (num) and a low position, which Kramer (2014) associates with n, providing the root with a syntactic category. We argue that Linking Morphemes (L) in Dutch provide new evidence for such a split, and moreover, for a low expression of # in a language that is normally considered to have high #. By taking L to instantiate n, the presence or absence of L can be taken as a diagnostic of the size of non-head elements. Combined with recent work on Germanic compounds (Harðarson2016, De Belder 2017) this makes a prediction about the order of modifiers in Dutch compounds, which we show is borne out

scholarly journals Semantic and Syntactic Processing During Comprehension: ERP Evidence From Chinese QING Structure

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siqin Yang ◽  
Yeyi Cai ◽  
Wen Xie ◽  
Minghu Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Processing ◽  
Specific Structure ◽  
Syntactic Category ◽  
Semantic Consistency ◽  
Interactive Model ◽  
Sentence Patterns ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Processing Mechanism

Previous studies used BA and BEI structures as stimuli to infer that syntax-first models seemed not applicable in Chinese. However, there were inconsistent results of both within same structures and between different structures. Since sentence structures of stimuli were non-canonical as well as lacking wide representativeness in Chinese, we examined the processing mechanism of a more representative structure in Chinese, QING (QING + NP1 + V + NP2) structure in the current study. Four conditions, including correct sentences (CORRECT), semantic-violated sentences (SEMANTIC), syntactic-violated sentences (SYNTACTIC), and combined violated sentences (COMBINED), were composed by manipulating the V between NP1 and NP2. Results with respect to three types of violation were as follows. In the initial phrase (100–300 ms), there existed an interaction between SEMANTIC consistency and the SYNTACTIC category. In the intermediate phrase (300–500 ms), the interaction continued with similar negative waves evoked by three types of violated sentences. In the final phrase (500–700 ms), both SYNTACTIC or COMBINED evoked obvious negative waves. The current research of Qing structure provided new evidence for the processing mechanism of Chinese sentence patterns. Specifically, we found that the interactive model rather than the syntax-first model may apply to the processing of this specific structure of Chinese sentences and compared the results with those reported in previous studies that examined other types of sentence structures.

Coordinated Bare Definites

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Heycock ◽  
Roberto Zamparelli
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Complex Constraints

Recent work on the syntax and semantics of functional projections within the noun phrase has had as one goal an explanation for the crosslinguistic distribution of “bare” (determinerless) noun phrases. This article provides an account for an apparent anomaly: the relatively free occurrence of bare noun phrases under coordination. We argue that this construction involves coordination of projections below the DP level, with the coordinated structure subsequently raising to Spec, DP.Our analysis accounts for the fact that these nominals are endowed with uniqueness conditions, but only in some cases, and for a number of other hitherto undocumented facts, including complex constraints on modification.

scholarly journals New Light on the Historia Augusta

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 167-198
Author(s):  
Justin Stover
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Historia Augusta ◽  
New Evidence

AbstractThis paper presents a new manuscript of part of the Historia Augusta from Erlangen, which vindicates a more than century-old hypothesis by E. Patzig: that the 1489 Venice edition of the work is textually valuable. On this basis, and building on the recent work of R. Modonutti, I present five new passages that are not printed in modern editions of the HA, six lacunose passages restored, and propose that the lost Murbach manuscript is the source. Armed with this new evidence, I re-examine the question of the great lacuna between the Lives of Maximus and Balbinus and the Lives of the Two Valerians, showing that it is a codicological — and not authorial — feature.

scholarly journals Plastic Changes in Hand Proprioception Following Force-Field Motor Learning

2010 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 1213-1215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Goble ◽  
Joaquin A. Anguera
Keyword(s):  
Motor Learning ◽  
Force Field ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Sensory Feedback ◽  
Motor Output ◽  
Feedback Processing ◽  
Plastic Changes ◽  
Proprioceptive Function ◽  
New Evidence

Motor neurophysiologists are placing greater emphasis on sensory feedback processing than ever before. In line with this shift, a recent article by Ostry and colleagues provided timely new evidence that force-field motor learning influences not only motor output, but also proprioceptive sense. In this Neuro Forum, the merits and limitations of Ostry and colleagues are explored in the context of recent work on proprioceptive function, including several recent studies from this journal.

Athens and Tenos in the Early Hellenistic Age

1992 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Reger
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
Greek History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Old Evidence ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Standing Problem

Some recent work on the history of Athens and Tenos in the third century B.c. has brought to light new evidence and new interpretations of old evidence for this notoriously shadowy period of Greek history. Reflection on this material has suggested to me solutions to a few minor puzzles (Sections IA, IB, III), a contribution to a long-standing problem in the history of Athens in the early third century (Section IB), and a new explanation for the entry of Rhodos into the war with Antiokhos (Section II).

The Creole of Mon Louis Island, Alabama, and the Louisiana Connection

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Louisiana French ◽  
Language Data ◽  
New Evidence

Louisiana French Creole (LFC) has clearly been undergoing decreoli-zation in the twentieth century; its exact nature is difficult to determine, since the only evidence from the previous century available up to now has come from literary texts of that time. Language data was elicited from elderly informants whose parents were the last monolingual creole speakers living in the vicinity of Mobile, Alabama. Since communication between the speakers of New Orleans Creole and Mobile Creole was quite commonplace, Mon Louis Island Creole (MLIC) represents new evidence relating to nineteenth century LFC. This study presents an analysis of the MLIC and LFC noun phrase and verb phrase. Mon Louis Island (MLI) speakers use two-stem verbs which are not attested in nineteenth century LFC texts. On the other hand, there are developments in LFC, such as preposed definite articles, that were not documented in MLIC. Thus, the MLIC data might help distinguish the features already present in the nineteenth century from those which represent more recent changes in LFC.

The Compromise of Charles Cardinal de Lorraine: New Evidence

2003 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
STUART CARROLL
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
Before And After ◽  
New Evidence

The discovery of a document, until now hidden in an obscure Protestant pamphlet, presented by Charles cardinal de Lorraine (1525–74) to the privy council in August 1562, underpins recent work which shows the cardinal to have been an evangelical Catholic interested in reform and in reconciliation with Lutherans, both before and after the Colloquy of Poissy. This paper argues that Protestants feared Lorraine precisely because his interest in dialogue had the potential to split the reform movement. Publication of his five articles in 1565 was an attempt to embarrass him after Trent and to compromise his political rapprochement with the prince of Condé.

scholarly journals Mitochondria have Fe(III) receptors

1990 ◽  
Vol 265 (2) ◽  
pp. 415-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Weaver ◽  
H Zhan ◽  
S Pollack
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Iron Complex ◽  
Major Constituent ◽  
High Affinity ◽  
Saturable Binding ◽  
Iron Pool ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Binding To Mitochondria

Recent work has provided new evidence that ATP is the major constituent of the low-Mr iron pool in the reticulocyte. The interaction of the iron complex of ATP with mitochondria was investigated in the present experiments. When ATP-Fe3+ was incubated with mitochondria, Fe3+, free of ATP, bound with high affinity to Fe3+ receptors on the mitochondria. The binding was saturable and reversible. Iron which was complexed to PPi, nitrilotriacetate, citrate, ADP and GTP also showed saturable binding to mitochondria; Fe3+ complexed to AMP bound non-specifically, as did Fe2+/ascorbate complexed to AMP bound non-specifically, as did Fe2+/ascorbate and Fe2+/dithionite.

scholarly journals Agreeing and substantivized adjectives in Russian paucal constructions: An experimental study

Rhema ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 50-71
Author(s):  
A. Gerasimova ◽  
E. Lyutikova
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Syntactic Category ◽  
Structural Context ◽  
Case Marking ◽  
Data Support ◽  
Russian Noun ◽  
Structural Case ◽  
The One

This paper addresses the issue of case variation in Russian paucal constructions. Previous studies claim that the choice of the case marking on the adjectival constituent depends on the syntactic category of the paucal construction. Using experimental data we show that the distribution of case marking strategies differs for paucal constructions in the quantificational position, where it does not receive structural case, and in the argumental position, where it receives case and agrees with the predicate. Although the experimental data support the hypothesis about the variable status of Russian noun phrase, it also shows the absence of the one-to-one correspondence between case marking and structural context: in particular, in quantificational positions both cases are acceptable.

scholarly journals How Intellectual Communities Progress

Episteme ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Lewis D. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Epistemic Position ◽  
Intellectual Community ◽  
Epistemic States ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Mere Presence ◽  
The Right ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Philosophical Progress

Abstract Recent work takes both philosophical and scientific progress to consist in acquiring factive epistemic states such as knowledge. However, much of this work leaves unclear what entity is the subject of these epistemic states. Furthermore, by focusing only on states like knowledge, we overlook progress in intermediate cases between ignorance and knowledge – for example, many now celebrated theories were initially so controversial that they were not known. This paper develops an improved framework for thinking about intellectual progress. Firstly, I argue that we should think of progress relative to the epistemic position of an intellectual community rather than individual inquirers. Secondly, I show how focusing on the extended process of inquiry (rather than the mere presence or absence of states like knowledge) provides a better evaluation of different types of progress. This includes progress through formulating worthwhile questions, acquiring new evidence, and increasing credence on the right answers to these questions. I close by considering the ramifications for philosophical progress, suggesting that my account supports rejecting the most negative views while allowing us to articulate different varieties of optimism and pessimism.

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