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Unembedded Definite Descriptions And Relevance, Robert J. Stainton

Robert J. Stainton

Definite descriptions (e.g. 'The king of France in 1997', 'The teacher of Aristotle') do not stand for particulars. Or so I will assume. The semantic alternative has seemed to be that descriptions only have meaning within sentences: i.e., that their semantic contribution is given syncategorimatically. This doesn't seem right, however, because descriptions can be used and understood outside the context of any sentence. Nor is this use simply a matter of "ellipsis." Since descriptions do not denote particulars, but seem to have a meaning in isolation, I propose that they be assigned generalized quantifiers as denotations — i.e. a kind …

Spinoza And Marx, Eugene W. Holland

Eugene W Holland

This essay explores what replacing Hegel with Spinoza as a philosophical source might do for contemporary Marxism.

Review Of Alan S. Kaye, Ed. (1997) Phonologies Of Asia And Africa: (Including The Caucasus), John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

No abstract provided.

Morpheme Structure Constraints And Paradigm Occultation, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

The morpheme structure constraints of classic generative phonology impose language-particular restrictions on underlying representations. It has long been known that MSCís often duplicate the functions of rules or output constraints, and so Stampe, Prince & Smolensky, and others have proposed to eliminate them. In OT, the descriptive effects of MSC’s are obtained from rankings that compel neutralization of potential underlying distinctions. One input is said to occult the other when both map onto a common output.

This paper has focused on MSC’s that prevent alternations within a paradigm. Absence of alternation is an effect of high-ranking output-output faithfulness constraints which …

Prosodic Morphology, John J. Mccarthy, Alan Prince

John J. McCarthy

No abstract provided.

Alignment And Parallelism In Indonesian Phonology, John J. Mccarthy, Abigail Cohn

John J. McCarthy

In this paper, we present a complete account of word stress in Indonesian and the ways in which it interacts with affixation, limitations on root structure, PrWd juncture, syllabification, and reduplication, developing and extending the ideas and empirical material in Cohn (1989). Phenomena that had formerly been analyzed in terms of the phonology/morphology mapping, the cycle, (non-)iterative foot assignment, and morpheme-structure constraints are all subsumed under Generalized Alignment.

Parallelism leads to examination of Alignment-based alternatives to the cycle, in which the influence of morphology on prosodic structure is direct. Furthermore, several conditions are discussed where only a parallel analysis will …

“Are We Doing Multicultural Education Yet?” Review Article Of Timothy’S Reagan’S Non-Western Educational Traditions, Rosemary C. Henze

Rosemary C. Henze

No abstract provided.

Raising To Object In Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Lucie Rabaovololona

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

Existentials And Partitives In Malagasy, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

Cet article décrit la construction existentielle en malgache et rend compte de la distribution et de l'interprétation des syntagmes nominaux. Il est montré que les syntagmes nominaux spécifiques se déplacent à l'extérieur de la petite proposition complément du verbe existentiel misy alors que les syntagmes nominaux non-spécifiques demeurent dans leur position de base. Cette corrélation entre la position des syntagmes nominaux et leur interprétation appuie l'hypothèse d'appariement (Mapping Hypothesis) de Diesing (1992). Cependant, cette analyse structurale ne rend pas compte de l'interprétation précise attribuée aux syntagmes nominaux spécifiques, qu'il s'agisse de l'interprétation partitive, possessive ou locative. Afin d'unifier ces trois …

Focus Movement And Wh-Questions In Malagasy, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

Zero Morphology And The T/Sm Restriction In The L2 Acquisition Of Psych Verbs., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, L. White, S. Montrul, M. Hirakawa, D. Chen, C. Brown

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

No abstract provided.

The Parts Of Have, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

Complex Verbal Constructions In Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Jeannot Ranaivoson

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

"Possible Origins Of Infixation Of Khmer.", John Haiman

John Haiman

No abstract provided.

Determining L2 Knowledge Of Spanish Clitics - On Line And Off Line., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, N. Duffield, S. Montrul, L. White

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

No abstract provided.

Optimality And Inversion In Spanish, Eric Baković

Eric Baković

No abstract provided.

Exploring Turn At Talk In Spanish: Native And Nonnative Speaker Interactions, Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch

This preliminary study highlights the demonstrated gains in conversational competence of three Spanish L2 learners who participated in a 10-week university immersion program. The analyses considered turn-taking and discourse structure, comparing the learners’ task-based conversational interactions in L2 Spanish with separate interactions in their L1 English and the interactions of a group of Spanish native speakers. Although the findings suggest that during the immersion experience the learners made gains in L2 conversational competence with respect to pausing and turn length, their development of turn-taking organization and discourse structure reflected an approximation to their own L1 behavioral norms rather than those …

Changes In Patterns Of Thinking About Motion With L2 Acquisition, Gale Stam

Gale Stam, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness 'In Isolation', And Ellipsis, Robert J. Stainton

Robert J. Stainton

No abstract provided.

Pages Per Term In The United States Reports And Converting Supreme Court Citations To Term Announced: A Statistical Research Tool, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

This short article presents a valuable statistical research tool for those involved in analysis of U.S. Supreme Court opinions. Researchers are made available the data regarding the number of pages that the Supreme Court has written each term and provides an easier basis for identifying this page count with the term announced, which is not otherwise immediately evident from the volume number of the U.S. Reports.