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Again on participial constructions in Northern Russian varieties: patterns of agreement with the auxiliary
No full textThe so called ‘possessive perfect’ participial construction of North Russian (NR) varieties, since Timberlake's (1976) seminal work, has attracted the attention of researchers in view of the fine-grained cross-dialectal variation it displays. Indeed, its base schema (adessive/ablative PP + past passive participle + AUX +NP/DP) gives rise to different configurations of: a) (non-)agreement between the NP/DP and the participle; b) case on the noun (nominative or accusative); c) (non-)agreement between the AUX and the NP/DP and/or between the participle and the AUX. Building on the literature both from the typological-functional tradition (Heine \& Kuteva 2004, Danylenko 2005, Seržant 2012) and from the generative field (Lavine 1999, 2000, Tsedryk 2006, Jung 2008, 2011; Romanova 2015), this paper extends the analysis of NR possessive perfects, as to agreement with the AUX, proposed in previous work (Civardi 2013; 2016). The fact that, in addition to the case and participle agreement configurations, also some patterns of agreement with AUX are not attested, is in fact correctly predicted by a theory whereby the neuter inflection -o is conceived as an ‘expletive clitic’ that acts as placeholder for one of the verb’s argumental roles, which in their turn can be manipulated by the -n/-t participial inflection . Furthermore, as in previous work, an analogy is made with null subjects in Romance varieties and their variation patterns: thus, the obligatory agreement between the participle and the auxiliary (regardless of the ±AGR feature with the DP), or between the auxiliary and the DP (regardless of ±AGR with the participle) is seen as driven by the requirement that referential properties be compatible, so as to allow the formation of chain relations. Such a requirement bans possible configurations of non-agreement between all the components, which are in fact not attested in the varieties under investigation
Summary indicators of opinions expressed by the users of given service
No full textIn this paper we study the properties of a family of index, called CI. These indices have been proposed by Civardi, Zavarrone (2003) in order to evaluate the teaching quality in university disciplines. The most frequently used scales offer four or five points and the first two (or the last two) points on both scales are associated with negative evaluations and the last two (or the first two) are associated with symmetric positive evaluations. The empirical distribution of responses represents the starting point to compute the CI indices. Each index assumes values lying between –100 (in the case of maximum negative evaluation) to +100 (in the case of an evaluation of absolute excellence) and is obtained as the algebraic sum of two indices. The first expresses the score obtained in the semi-plane of positive evaluations while the second represents the score obtained in the semi-plane of negative evaluations. The CI index is characterized by the choice of the parameter of importance level k(0≤k≤1) on the degree of importance the “investigator/decision maker” wants to assign to the quota of very positive opinions and of the very negative ones. The construction of the universe of response models of N respondents (with 10≤N≤105) and, for each distribution, of the eleven CI indices (k=0, 0.1, ..., 0.9, 1)) allow to study the properties of effective distributions of the indices. The results highlight that all effective distributions, varying N and k, are symmetric with mean, mode and median equal to zero. The square mean error assumes values from 53 (when N=10 and k=0) to 31. The possibility of approximating CI distribution with a normal one offers interesting developments in an inferential framework
An aplett to measure and to assess the customer satisfaction: how the graduate people in the working world evaluate their university syllabus
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I servizi alle imprese
No full textI servizi alle imprese comprendono, in senso stretto, quelli che hanno come primo destinatario le imprese e, in senso esteso, anche il commercio e la distribuzione, i servizi di rete e i servizi finanziari. Nel volume si trattano i comparti che occupano per lo più laureati e che creano la maggior parte del lavoro in questo settore, detto significativamente "quaternario" per indicare la sua modernità e attualità
How difficulties, didactic supports and teaching quality in disciplines can be perceived through the structural approach
No full textSome proprieties of a summary index to measure the opinions expressed by the users of a given service
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