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A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects
Full text linkThis paper introduces a series of mitigating circumstances improving the acceptability of wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects in Rioplatense Spanish. It is argued that the factor behind these amelioration effects is encoded in prosodic structure, much in line with the hypothesis that certain island restrictions apply at PF. The linguistic principle accounting for the phenomenon is proposed to be a faithfulness constraint at the syntaxprosody interface stating that an extraction domain XP cannot be mapped as a prosodic word ω at PF. An alternative syntactic account based on freezing is shown to be unable to capture the relevant contrasts.Fil: Muñoz Pérez, Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Austral de Chile; ChileFil: Verdecchia Leandro, Matías Nicolás. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas - Sadaf; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Carranza, Fernando Martín. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentin
Formal semantics: a panoramic view from the perspective of generative grammar
Full text linkEste trabajo se propone trazar un estado del arte de la semántica formal o semántica composicional, disciplina que usa herramientas de la lógica y la matemática para estudiar sistemáticamente el modo en que se compone el significado lingüístico de las expresiones complejas. En primer lugar, se esboza una breve historización de la disciplina. En segundo lugar, se presenta el aparato lógico que permite construir un modelo semántico para el significado veritativo-condicional. En tercer y cuarto lugar se introducen algunos conceptos que permiten extender este sistema para modelizar los significados no proposicional y temático respectivamente. Finalmente, se resumen algunas de las propuestas y discusiones respecto de cómo utilizar este aparato para dar cuenta del significado de una selección de clases de palabras y categorías gramaticales disponibles en las lenguas naturales.The aim of this paper is to provide a state of the art in the field of formal semantics, a branch of linguistics which relies on logic and mathematics to study systematically how the meaning of complex linguistic expressions is derived. First, I offer an overview of the history of the discipline. Second, I present the logical apparatus that allows us to build a semantic model for truth-value meaning. In the third and fourth place, I introduce some concepts that make it possible to extend the formal system in order to deal with not-at-issue and information-structure meanings, respectively. Finally, I review some of the proposals and discussions on how to use this system to account for a selection of parts of speech and grammatical categories available in natural languages.Fil: Carranza, Fernando Martín. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Filología y Literatura Hispánica "Dr. Amado Alonso"; Argentin
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Dimensiones del significado: una introducción a la lingüística formal
No full textEl tema de este manual es el significado lingüístico, aunque nuestro punto de partida no sea lo que hay de lingüístico en esta primera reflexión sobre el significado sino todo lo que hay de filosófico, porque al fin y al cabo hacer semántica hoy en día es estar entre al menos dos tradiciones divergentes que se encontraron recién hace aproximadamente unas cuatro décadas, cuando Barbara Partee las hizo dialogar. Por el momento, comenzaremos desde un lugar poco original (o nada original), a saber: Gottlob Frege. Y comenzaremos además por la pregunta más básica: ¿qué cosas hay en el mundo, de acuerdo con Frege? La respuesta es inmediata: todo lo que hay son objetos y funciones. Las funciones son entidades no saturadas o incompletas que requieren de otras entidades para completarse. Las funciones pueden ser más o menos incompletas dependiendo del número de entidades que requieran. A las funciones que solo exigen una única entidad y cuyo valor es lo verdadero o lo falso (i.e., un valor de verdad), Frege las llama conceptos.Fil: Saab, Andrés Leandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico; ArgentinaFil: Carranza, Fernando Martín. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Filología y Literatura Hispánica "Dr. Amado Alonso"; Argentin
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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