20 research outputs found
Notes on Extended Benefactives
No full textWood and Zanuttini (2018) have discussed data suggesting that low Appl(icative) phrases can occur as the complement of a preposition in some varieties of English. However, their claim was based on a limited data set that is potentially open to alternative analyses. This paper reports on judgment data collected by the second author of the present paper in January 2018 which go well beyond the examples discussed by Wood and Zanuttini (2018), and support their claim that a beneficiary and a DP can form a constituent inside a PP that excludes the PP and any verb it may be associated with
On the D-structure position of negative sentence adverbials in French
No full textThe author evaluates aspects of recent work by Pollock (1989), Belletti (1990) and Zanuttini (1991), in particular one fundamental assumption made there about the syntax of negative clauses in French. While accepting Pollock's claim that the clitic ne is generated as the X0 head of its own phrasal projection, the author rejects the claim (first made by Pollock (1989: 418) and subsequently endorsed by Belletti (1990: 30) and Zanuttini (1991: 35)) that pas is an Xmax phrasal category base-generated as the specifier of ne, i.e., in the specifier position within NegP. The author offers a three-sided argument against such an analysis, invoking: (a) a significant generalisation regarding the specifier position within functional projections; (b) the relationship between elements like pas and indefinite direct objects in clauses containing a transitive verb; and (c) the syntax of adverbials in general. The author goes on to consider Obenauer's (1983; 1984) work on `quantification at a distance' and Battye's (1989; 1991) work on `nominal quantification'. He argues for a unified account of negative sentence adverbials in French and posits accordingly that pas is generated in a lower position in clause structure, either adjoined to VP or as the head N of a determiner-less direct object indefinite DP
Echocardiographic contrast imaging of the human right heart: A multicenter study of the efficacy, safety, and reproducibility of intravenous SHU-454
No full text"We enter the fields of new: Kenneth Patchen, l'intelletto e l'intuizione"
No full textA partire da una citazione di Kenneth Patchen, "we enter the fields of new", l'autrice del saggio analizza la poesia "Thinking Rock" sulla base del binomio, in psicologia, "intelletto e intuizione".Starting from a quotation by Kenneth Patchen, "we enter the fields of new", the author of the essay analyses the poet's poem "Thinking Rock" on the basis of the difference, in psychology, of the terms "intellect" and "intuition"
PAIMS-2 - ALTEPLASE COMBINED WITH HEPARIN VERSUS HEPARIN IN THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE PULMONARY-EMBOLISM - PLASMINOGEN-ACTIVATOR ITALIAN MULTICENTER STUDY-2
No full textBACKGROUND: The effect of alteplase versus heparin in pulmonary embolism has not been studied extensively with serial pulmonary angiograms.
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this randomized, open trial was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of alteplase followed by heparin, versus heparin alone, in 36 patients with angiographically documented pulmonary embolism.
METHODS: Twenty patients were allocated randomly to a 2-h infusion of alteplase (10 mg bolus, then 90 mg over 2 h) followed by heparin; the other 16 patients were given intravenous heparin at a continuous infusion rate of 1,750 IU/h.
RESULTS: The vascular obstruction, assessed by the Miller index at pulmonary angiography, decreased significantly in alteplase-treated patients (p less than 0.01) from a baseline of 28.3 +/- 2.9 to a value of 24.8 +/- 5.2 2 h after the start of infusion; in the heparin group there was no change (from 25.3 +/- 5.3 to 25.2 +/- 5.4). Mean pulmonary artery pressure decreased significantly from a baseline of 30.2 +/- 7.8 mm Hg to 21.4 +/- 6.7 in the alteplase group and increased in the heparin group (from 22.3 +/- 10.5 to 24.8 +/- 11.2 mm Hg). For a subset of patients, lung scans were performed at baseline and on days 7 and 30. There were no differences between the two groups in the follow-up lung scans, but there were significant decreases from the baseline values. Bleeding occurred in 14 of 20 alteplase-treated patients and in 6 of 16 in the heparin group (p = NS). There were three major bleeding episodes in the alteplase group and two in the heparin group. Two patients died after fibrinolysis (one of acute renal failure after cardiac tamponade and one of cardiac arrest after cerebral hemorrhage) and one patient in the heparin group died of recurrent pulmonary embolism.
CONCLUSIONS: Alteplase resulted in a greater and faster improvement of the angiographic and hemodynamic variables compared with heparin. However, the high frequency of bleeding observed with alteplase in this trial suggests that patients should be carefully selected before thrombolytic therapy is given
On agree feeding interpretation: honorification, empathy, and switch reference
No full textAgree is one of the few core syntactic operations posited in minimalist syntax (Chomsky, 2000, 2001) and as such its nature has been subject to debate from various perspectives. While the standard assumption is that the result of Agree does not affect interpretation, this dissertation shows that Agree can not only affect PF but can also affect LF by providing arguments to some semantic predicates. In particular, I claim that some functional heads are semantic predicates that select their arguments via Agree over index features.I first establish the claim by examining Object Honorifics in Japanese. Previous syntactic literature has considered object agreement over an honorific feature borne by the object (Toribio, 1990; Hasegawa, 2017, a.o.). This approach has been supported by the observation that the distribution of the object that controls object honorific marking is constrained by the configurational cosntraints on Agree (Niinuma, 2003; Boeckx and Niinuma, 2004; Boeckx, 2006). I show, however, that the Object Honorific construction expresses an honorific relationship between the subject referent and the object referent, which cannot be reduced to the semantics of the honorific feature on the object. I claim that the head responsible for the Object Honorific marking is a semantic predicate honor, and finds its arguments via Agree.
I go on to extend the idea to three other phenomena, Japanese Benefactive auxiliaries, the Direct / Inverse system in Japhug and the typology of Switch Reference. In each of these phenomena, the pivotal head establishes a relationship with some nominal expressions already in the sentence. While this relationship can be established only in a configuration where an Agree relationship can be established, each phenomenon involves components that cannot be reduced to a feature on the nominal expressions. I will show that the idea that semantic predicates can select their arguments via Agree straightforwardly captures these apparently conflicting observations.
At an empirical level, this dissertation sheds light on the aspects of the four phenomena the that have been ignored or considered problematic and set aside in many of the previous syntactic studies. At a theoretical level, the conclusion of this dissertation has implications not only on the issue of the interpretability of Agree but also on the mechanism of selection and on the direction of Agree.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical reference
Glued structural products made of beech wood: Quality of the raw material and gluing issues
No full textHardwoods are becoming increasingly important in Europe for the use as structural material, both as solid wood and engineered structural products. The recent constitution of a new standardization working group at European level (CEN TC124 / WG3 / TG1) for the drafting of a harmonized standard regulating the production and characterization of glulam beams made of hardwoods proves this growing interest. In Italy, the great abundance of beech forests has led to the demand of a research project to investigate the use of this species in construction. Specifically, the study, among other things, deals with the production of structural glued products made of beech. The research starts with the characterization of the raw material, developing the strength grading of the beech boards, both by visual and machine methods. At the same time, the study addresses the comparison of different gluing parameters, such as the pressing process and the adhesive used to achieve an adequate structural bonding between lamellas. The paper reports the results concerning the mechanical characterization of beech sawn wood from different Italian Regions and the first outcomes encountered during the selection of the different structural gluing parameters for the production of CLT
Computerized network organization design for clinical patient data management of a cardiology department
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