scholarly journals Modelling Selectional Super-Flexibility

2022 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Kristina Liefke
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Formal Semantics ◽  
Concrete Object ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Attitude Verbs ◽  
Small Clauses ◽  
Generalized Type

The selectional flexibility of some attitude verbs (e.g. know, realize, report) between declarative and interrogative complements has been the subject of much recent work in formal semantics. However, little attention has been paid to verbs (e.g. see, remember, observe) that embed an even wider variety of complements (incl. subject-controlled gerundive small clauses and concrete object-denoting DPs). Since the familiar types of some of these complements resist an embedding in the type for questions [= sets of propositions], these verbs challenge Theiler, Roelofsen & Aloni’s (2018) uniform interpretation strategy for the complements of responsive verbs. My paper answers this challenge by uniformly interpreting the different complements of selectionally super-flexible verbs like remember in a generalized type for questions, viz. as parametrized centered questions. It shows that the resulting semantics captures the intuitive entailment pattern of these verbs.

The Semantics of Evidentials

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Formal Semantics ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Propositional Content ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Truth Conditional ◽  
The Common ◽  
Issue Content

This book gives a compositional, truth‐conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentials set in a theory of the semantics for sentential mood. Central to this semantics is a proposal about a distinction between what propositional content is at‐issue, roughly primary or proffered, and what content is not‐at‐issue. Evidentials contribute not‐at‐issue content, more specifically what I will call a not‐at‐issue restriction. In addition, evidentials can affect the level of commitment a sentence makes to the main proposition, contributed by sentential mood. Building on recent work in the formal semantics of evidentials and related phenomena, the proposed semantics does not appeal to separate dimensions of illocutionary meaning. Instead, I argue that all sentences make three contributions: at‐issue content, not‐at‐issue content, and an illocutionary relation. At‐issue content is presented, made available for subsequent anaphora, but is not directly added to the common ground. Not‐at‐issue content directly updates the common ground. The illocutionary relation uses the at‐issue content to impose structure on the common ground, which, depending on the clause type (e.g., declarative, interrogative), can trigger further updates. Empirical support for this proposal comes from Cheyenne (Algonquian, primary data from the author’s fieldwork), English, and a wide variety of languages that have been discussed in the literature on evidentials.

Faith and Goodness

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 167-191
Author(s):  
Eleonore Stump
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alvin Plantinga ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Richard Swinburne ◽  
The Relationship

Recent work on the subject of faith has tended to focus on the epistemology of religious belief, considering such issues as whether beliefs held in faith are rational and how they may be justified. Richard Swinburne, for example, has developed an intricate explanation of the relationship between the propositions of faith and the evidence for them. Alvin Plantinga, on the other hand, has maintained that belief in God may be properly basic, that is, that a belief that God exists can be part of the foundation of a rational noetic structure. This sort of work has been useful in drawing attention to significant issues in the epistemology of religion, but these approaches to faith seem to me also to deepen some long-standing perplexities about traditional Christian views of faith.

Secondary Inertia Effects in the Torsional Vibration of Reciprocating Engines—A Literature Review

1995 ◽  
Vol 209 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
D C Hesterman ◽  
B J Stone
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Torsional Vibration ◽  
Angular Position ◽  
Inertia Effect ◽  
Secondary Resonance ◽  
Inertia Effects ◽  
Reciprocating Engines ◽  
The Subject

It has been known for some time that the torsional vibration of reciprocating engines and pumps cannot be modelled accurately by representing the reciprocating mechanism by a constant inertia. There have been many publications describing better models than those that use constant inertia and these indicate that the effective inertia of a reciprocating mechanism varies with angular position. The major component of this variation is a twice per revolution cyclic effect—hence the term ‘secondary inertia’. The consequences of this secondary inertia effect can be serious for torsional vibration causing ‘secondary resonance,’ and even instability. This paper contains a review of the current literature on the subject and introduces some recent work by the authors.

scholarly journals On the Inversion of the Gauss Transformation

1957 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 459-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Rooney
Keyword(s):  
Differential Operator ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Suitable Definition ◽  
Inversion Theory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Gauss Transformation ◽  
Operational Methods

The inversion theory of the Gauss transformation has been the subject of recent work by several authors. If the transformation is defined by1.1,then operational methods indicate that,under a suitable definition of the differential operator.

scholarly journals Pulsar Polarization, Emission, and Beaming

1996 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 237-244
Author(s):  
Joanna M. Rankin
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Short Discussion ◽  
Pulsar Emission ◽  
The Subject

AbstractThis paper discusses observational and analytical questions pertaining to the pulsar emission problem. A short outline of the area is given for those new to the subject. Some of the literature pertinent to pulsar polarization, emission and beaming, which has appeared over about the last five years is mentioned. There is a short discussion of efforts to carry out polarimetric observations of higher quality, and finally, there is a short discussion of recent work by the author and her colleagues.

Postdramatic Stress Syndrome: Dood Paard's medEia at P.S. 122

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-135
Author(s):  
Jacob Gallagher-Ross
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
New Age ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Stress Syndrome ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Millennium

Art—or at least the kind we most like to write about—is almost always political, whether it is inter/national or personal; and though TDR has already taken this up in its “War and Other Bad Shit” issue, the topic remains center stage. In his review of Dutch theatre troupe Dood Paard's medEia, Jacob Gallagher-Ross notes the emergence of “a new age of the chorus” in which spectatorship becomes inseparable from paralyzed witnessing and Medea's tragedy is reconceived as a metaphor for the West's tragic relations with the East. Laurietz Seda explores Guillermo Gómez-Peña's recent performance/installation Mapa/Corpo 2: Interactive Rituals for the New Millennium, a fluid piece that, like much of the artist's recent work, addresses the xenophobia and “war on difference” that underlies the US's ongoing War on Terror. The Burmese stand-up trio the Moustache Brothers is the subject of Xan Colman and Tamara Searle's personal account of how performance can be both art and resistance in a contradictory and charged political regime.

History and Historical Criticism: Recent Work of Richardson and Sayles

1964 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Robert Livingston Schuyler
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
Joint Product ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Parliamentary History ◽  
To Come ◽  
Early English ◽  
English Constitutional History ◽  
Beginning Students

The collaboration of Richardson and Sayles in the investigation of early English parliamentary history has long been justly celebrated. A full generation has passed since the publication of the first of those studies of theirs which have done so much to widen and deepen knowledge about medieval parliaments and have made their names, usually coupled, household words with students of medieval English constitutional history. The authors were influenced, no doubt, by some earlier historians, and the statement that they built on foundations laid by Maitland and McIlwain is not incorrect. In the volume, however, which is here under special consideration, The Governance of Mediaeval England from the Conquest to Magna Carta, they do not undertake, qua historians as distinguished from historical critics, to come this side of the reign of King John, when parliaments had not as yet assumed their later form and functions.IWhy, it seems not inappropriate to ask, was this latest joint product of their historical activities written; to what class or classes of readers was it particularly addressed? It was evidently not designed as a manual of the type that students of English constitutional history have long been familiar with; for one thing, its chronological scope is limited to about two centuries, from c. 1000 to 1215; and much of the book would be unintelligible to beginning students of the subject. An apologia, which serves as a Preface, and a preliminary chapter suggest answers to the questions that have just been asked.

scholarly journals Notes on Nycteribiidae, with Descriptions of Two New Genera

Parasitology ◽  
1917 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Scott
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
New Genera ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time ◽  
Insight Into

This paper is written primarily with the intention of publishing descriptions of two new genera of Nycteribiidae, together with some notes relating to certain already known forms of that family. But it also includes an account of some recent work (not my own), which for the first time gives us a detailed insight into the habits of these bizarre creatures. This latter side of the subject will be considered first.

Popular Theatre and the Changing Perspective of the Eighties

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Popular Theatre ◽  
Good Night ◽  
Commercial Success ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Film Version ◽  
Important Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
North And South

John McGrath is one of those few writers who, having begun his career in a success-fully orthodox manner, came to prefer working through ‘alternative’ channels – notably, in his formation and continuing work with the two 7:84 Companies, England and Scotland, their names reflecting the persistent fact that 84 per cent of the nation's wealth is owned by seven per cent of the population. Thus, McGrath's early work as one of the creators of the vintage TV series Z Cars, and his major ‘commercial’ success with the film version of his play Events while Guarding the Bofors Gun, has been succeeded by numerous plays and productions less familiar to conventional audiences, but which have made an enormous and often stirring impact in touring venues (frequently of a less expected kind) both north and south of the border. The full range of his work is charted in the ‘NTQ Checklist’ which follows this interview, and its development through to the mid– 'seventies was discussed in the earlier interview with McGrath in TQ19. reprinted in New Theatre Voices of the Seventies, edited by Simon Trussler (Methuen, 1981). Here, Tony Mitchell talks with John McGrath about some of his more recent work, and discusses his views on the nature of popular theatre, as set out in his important study of the subject, A Good Night Out (Methuen, 1981).

scholarly journals I. The expansion of argon and of helium as compared with that of air and hydrogen

1896 ◽  
Vol 59 (353-358) ◽  
pp. 60-65 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Different Gases

Accurate comparisons of temperatures, as read with the aid of thermometers filled with different gases, have not often been made. The history of the subject may be said to have begun with the classical researches of Regnault. Of recent work of this kind, that of Chappuis was performed entirely at temperatures below 100°, the gases employed being hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide. The experiments of Grunmach and Pernet were also conducted at temperatures below 100°. Crafts has compared the readings of a number of mercury thermometers with those obtained by Regnault and by himself with a hydrogen thermometer.

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