The derivational timing of ellipsis: an overview of theoretical approaches

NWO360.70.530Theoretical and Experimental Linguistic

Types and Distribution of Northern Basque Correlatives

Theoretical and Experimental Linguistic

Közfoglalkoztatásból szociális szövetkezet?

A magyarországi foglalkoztatottsági mutatók stabilizálásában, kisebb mértékű javításában a közfoglalkoztatás mértékének növelése térségenként változó mértékben hangsúlyos szerepet játszik. Az eredendően átmeneti jellegű, a munkaerőpiacra vissza nem vezető, piacidegen forma tartósan nem fenntartható. A kormányzati szándékok szerint a kiutat a szociális szövetkezetek tömeges létrehozása jelentheti. Ezt indokolja a társadalmi vállalkozások ezen formájának európai uniós elfogadottsága, a foglalkoztatottak kormányzati szférából való kikerülése, a jó példák, valamint a jellegzetesen magyar megoldással a helyi és ezen keresztül a központi kormányzat befolyásának megőrzése. A magyarországi szociális szövetkezetek új hulláma azonban számos, a regionális és helyi gazdaságfejlesztést érintő kérdést vet fel. Így: mennyiben tekinthető ez az új forma a társadalmi gazdaság részét képező valódi szövetkezetnek, hogyan tudnak együtt élni a korábban megalakult társadalmi vállalkozásokkal, tudnak-e tartós foglalkoztatást piaci viszonyok között biztosítani, milyen hatással lesznek a helyi gazdaság többi szereplőjére. Tanulmányunkban ezen kérdésekre keressük a választ

Reprise fragments in English and Hungarian: further evidence for an in-situ Q-equivalence approach to clausal ellipsis

Theoretical and Experimental Linguistic

Dutch preposition stranding and ellipsis: 'Merchant's Wrinkle' ironed out

This paper provides an explanation for the unexpected ban on preposition stranding by wh-R-pronouns under sluicing in Dutch. After showing that previous prosodic and syntactic explanations are untenable, we propose that the observed ban is a by-product of an EPP condition that applies in the PP domain in Dutch. Our analysis revolves around the idea that ellipsis bleeds EPP-driven movement, an idea that already has empirical support from independent patterns of ellipsis found in English and in other structural domains in Dutch. Our claim is that: (1) R-pronominalization involves a pronominal argument of P moving to the periphery of its extended PP domain (PlaceP) in order to satisfy a PP-internal EPP condition, (2) this EPP-driven movement is bled under sluicing, and (3) because SpecPlaceP is the 'escape hatch' through which R-pronouns must move in order to exit the PP domain to form preposition stranding configurations, bleeding the EPP-driven movement of R-pronouns to SpecPlaceP therefore precludes R-pronouns from undergoing the wh-movement required to form a sluicing configuration.Theoretical and Experimental Linguistic

Casimir scaling in G(2) lattice gauge theory

We computed potentials between static color sources from the six lowest representations of G(2) lattice gauge theory, in numerical simulations with the Wilson action on asymmetric lattices with nonperturbatively estimated values of the bare anisotropy. We present evidence for (approximate) Casimir scaling of the obtained intermediate string tensions. The agreement with the Casimir-scaling prediction improves by increasing the coupling beta in the weak-coupling region above the crossover observed in G(2) gauge theory. The result naturally fits into confinement models with magnetic disorder and vacuum domain structure, but may represent a challenge for other approaches.Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures (24 EPS files), RevTeX4. In v2: typos corrected, discussion of systematic errors and of smearing expanded, references added. Version to appear in Phys. Rev.

Algorithms for Jumbled Pattern Matching in Strings

The Parikh vector p(s) of a string s is defined as the vector of multiplicities of the characters. Parikh vector q occurs in s if s has a substring t with p(t)=q. We present two novel algorithms for searching for a query q in a text s. One solves the decision problem over a binary text in constant time, using a linear size index of the text. The second algorithm, for a general finite alphabet, finds all occurrences of a given Parikh vector q and has sub-linear expected time complexity; we present two variants, which both use a linear size index of the text.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures; article accepted for publication in the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Scienc

Multiple-clause constituent questions: intonation and variation in Hungarian

When a question phrase bears a grammatical function in a subordinate clause but the interrogativity it introduces extends over a higher clause, there are two main possibilities in Hungarian: (i) the question phrase appears preverbally in the clause over which it takes scope, or (ii) the question phrase appears in the subordinate clause while the scope of interrogativity is indicated by the presence of another question phrase in the higher clause (the scope-marking construction). In order to understand the features shared by these two types of question and the ways in which they differ, this article explores the intonation of these types of multiple-clause constituent questions in Hungarian. The results of experimental investigation are reported and discussed, and the significance of these findings is evaluated in the context of wider typological variation in the formation of multiple-clause constituent questions