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A new species of control in grammar
No full textThe control dependency in grammar is conventionally distinguished into two classes: exhaustive (i→i) and non-exhaustive (i→i + (j)). Here, we show that, in languages like German and Italian, some speakers allow a new kind of “proxy control” which differs from both, such that, for a controller i, and a controllee j, j = proxy(i). The proxy function picks out a set of individuals that is discourse-pragmatically related to i. For such speakers, the German/Italian proxy control equivalent of the sentence: “Mariai asked Billj (for permission) [PROproxy(i)
to leave work early]” would thus mean that Maria asked Bill for permission for some salient set of individuals related to herself to leave early. We examine the theoretical and empirical properties of this new control relation in detail, showing that it is irreducible to other, more familiar referential dependencies. Using standard empirical diagnostics, we then illustrate that proxy control can be instantiated both as a species of obligatory control (OC) and non-obligatory control (NOC) in German and Italian and develop a syntactic and semantic model that derives each and details the factors conditioning the choice between the two. We also investigate the factors that condition different degrees of exhaustiveness (exhaustive vs. partial vs. proxy) in control, which then sheds light on why proxy control obtains in some languages, but not others and, within a language, is possible for some speakers but not others.Projekt DEA
Preface
Full text linkThe University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAV conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium.
The current PWPL series editors are Lukasz Abramowicz, Sudha Arunachalam, Maciej Baranowski, Lucas Champollion, Aaron Dinkin, Suzanne Evans Wagner, Michael Friesner, Jonathan Gress-Wright, Damien Hall, Uri Horesh, Ian Ross, Tatjana Scheffler, Sandhya Sundaresan, and Joshua Tauberer.
This volume contains the proceedings of the 28th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, held from February 27 to 29, 2004, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Preface
Full text linkThe University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAV conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium.
The current PWPL series editors are Lukasz Abramowicz, Sudha Arunachalam, Maciej Baranowski, Lucas Champollion, Aaron Dinkin, Suzanne Evans Wagner, Michael Friesner, Jonathan Gress-Wright, Damien Hall, Uri Horesh, Ian Ross, Tatjana Scheffler, Sandhya Sundaresan, and Joshua Tauberer.
This volume contains the proceedings of the 28th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, held from February 27 to 29, 2004, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Preface
Full text linkThe University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAV conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium.
The current PWPL series editors are Sudha Arunachalam, Maciej Baranowski, Uri Horesh, Ian Ross, Tara Sanchez, Tatjana Scheffler, Sandhya Sundaresan, and Alexander Williams.
This volume contains the proceedings of the 27th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, held from February 21 to 23, 2003, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Preface
Full text linkThe University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAV conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium.
The current PWPL series editors are Sudha Arunachalam, Maciej Baranowski, Uri Horesh, Ian Ross, Tara Sanchez, Tatjana Scheffler, Sandhya Sundaresan, and Alexander Williams.
This volume contains the proceedings of the 27th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, held from February 21 to 23, 2003, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Isolation and Identification of Crude Triacontanol from Rice Bran Wax
Full text linkIn present investigation crude triacontanol was isolated and identified from rice bran wax. Triacontanol was isolated by saponification and extraction method. The obtained mixture is crude Triacontanol. It was analyzed by Gas Chromatography (GC) and melting point method. Purity of triacontanol was 13.33%. 1Department of Botany, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (M.S.), India; 2Department of Botany, University of Pune, Pune (M.S.), India* Corresponding Author, Email: [email protected] Cite This Article As: Sandhya Jaybhay, Pankaj Chate and Avinash Ade. 2010. Isolation and Identification of Crude Triacontanol from Rice Bran Wax. J. Exp. Sci. 1(2): 26
A plea for syntax and a return to first principles: monstrous agreement in Tamil
Full text linkThe paper focuses on an interesting form of (person) indexical shift in the Dravidian language Tamil which surfaces as 1SG agreement marking in a clause embedded under a speech predicate. I show that this agreement is an instance of indexical shift and label it "monstrous agreement". However, I demonstrate that its full range of empirical properties cannot be adequately explained by the major analyses of indexical shift in the literature. The bulk of these, I argue, in addition to being predominantly semantic in spirit, and thus ill-equipped to deal with a morphosyntactic phenomenon like agreement, also involve two core misconceptions regarding indexicality vs. logophoricity on the one hand and speech vs. attitude predicates on the other. I propose that these core assumptions be strongly re-evaluated from first principles and that syntactic and typological clues on the subject be paid more heed. I propose a new analysis of the Tamil paradigms which derives indexical shift within an enriched grammatical model involving contextual features instantiated in a structurally articulated cartographic left periphery
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