122 research outputs found
Aspect and Modality in Indonesian the Case of Sudah, Telah, Pernah, and Sempat
In this paper, I describe four Indonesian aspect markers, sudah, telah, pernah, and sempat, showing that the main opposition between them relies not only on their aspectual meanings, but also on the various modalities they express. The opposition between the very frequent markers sudah and telah is analysed in detail. The syntactic and semantic survey shows that these two markers are not synonyms in most contexts
The Indonesian Verbal Suffix âNya; Nominalization or Subordination?
The suffix ânya is one of the most frequent and polysemic suffixes in Indonesian. It can provide definite determination and topicalization. The âVerbânyaâ, which often appears in a topicalized subject Noun Phrase (NP), is generally labelled as a deverbal noun. Nevertheless, many syntactic constraints set it apart from Indonesian deverbal nouns. âVerbânyaâ must be complemented by a NP, which can easily be reconstructed as a former subject: a sentence is topicalized and thus becomes a noun clause, generally the subject of the main clause Verb Phrase (VP). I argue that âVerbânyaâ is a subordinate noun clause, almost always conveying causality. This causal noun clause, an innovation in formal written Indonesian (especially in the media), seems to fill a âgapâ: the impossibility of beginning a sentence with a subordinating morpheme (âthat', âbecause')
Aspect and Modality in Indonesian the Case of Sudah, Telah, Pernah, and Sempat
In this paper, I describe four Indonesian aspect markers, sudah, telah, pernah, and sempat, showing that the main opposition between them relies not only on their aspectual meanings, but also on the various modalities they express. The opposition between the very frequent markers sudah and telah is analysed in detail. The syntactic and semantic survey shows that these two markers are not synonyms in most contexts
The fine-tuning problem revisited in the light of the Taylor-Lagrange renormalization scheme
We re-analyse the perturbative radiative corrections to the Higgs mass within
the Standard Model in the light of the Taylor-Lagrange renormalization scheme.
This scheme naturally leads to completely finite corrections, depending on an
arbitrary dimensionless scale. This formulation avoids very large individual
corrections to the Higgs mass. In other words, it is a confirmation that the
so-called fine-tuning problem in the Standard Model is just an artefact of the
regularization scheme and should not lead to any physical interpretation in
terms of the energy scale at which new physics should show up, nor to the
appearance of a new symmetry. We analyse the characteristic physical scales
relevant for the description of these radiative corrections.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
Extended Complex Trigonometry in Relation to Integrable 2D-Quantum Field Theories and Duality
Multicomplex numbers of order n have an associated trigonometry (multisine
functions with (n-1) parameters) leading to a natural extension of the
sine-Gordon model. The parameters are constrained from the requirement of local
current conservation. In two dimensions for n < 6 known integrable models
(deformed Toda and non-linear sigma, pure affine Toda...) with dual
counterparts are obtained in this way from the multicomplex space MC itself and
from the natural embedding \MC_n \subset \MMC_m, n < m. For a
generic constraint on the space of parametersis obtained from current
conservation at first order in the interaction Lagragien.Comment: 11 pages, no figure, LaTex with amsmath accepted by Phys. Lett.
Critical properties of -theory in Light-Cone Quantization
The dynamics of the phase transition of the continuum -theory in Light Cone Quantization is reexamined taking into account
fluctuations of the order parameter in the form of dynamical zero
mode operators (DZMO) which appear in a natural way via the Haag expansion of
the field of the interacting theory. The inclusion of the DZM-sector
changes significantly the value of the critical coupling, bringing it in
agreement within 2% with the most recent Monte-Carlo and high
temperature/strong coupling estimates. The critical slowing down of the DZMO
governs the low momentum behavior of the dispersion relation through invariance
of this DZMO under conformal transformations preserving the local light cone
structure. The critical exponent characterising the scaling behaviour at
comes out in agreement with the known value 0.25 of the Ising
universality class. is made of two contributions: one, analytic )
and another (25%) which can be evaluated only numerically with an estimated
error of 3%. The -function is then found from the non-perturbative
expression of the physical mass. It is non-analytic in the coupling constant
with a critical exponent . However, at D=2, is not
parametrisation independent with respect to the space of coupling constants due
to this strong non-analytic behaviour.Comment: Latex, 22 pages, 8 Postscript figures,Appendi
Scaling Laws and Transient Times in 3He Induced Nuclear Fission
Fission excitation functions of compound nuclei in a mass region where shell
effects are expected to be very strong are shown to scale exactly according to
the transition state prediction once these shell effects are accounted for. The
fact that no deviations from the transition state method have been observed
within the experimentally investigated excitation energy regime allows one to
assign an upper limit for the transient time of 10 zs.Comment: 7 pages, TeX type, psfig, submitted to Phys. Rev. C, also available
at http://csa5.lbl.gov/moretto/ps/he3_paper.p
Taylor-Lagrange renormalization scheme, Pauli-Villars subtraction, and light-front dynamics
We show how the recently proposed Taylor-Lagrange renormalization scheme can
lead to extensions of singular distributions which are reminiscent of the
Pauli-Villars subtraction. However, at variance with the Pauli-Villars
regularization scheme, no infinite mass limit is performed in this scheme. As
an illustration of this mechanism, we consider the calculation of the
self-energy in second order perturbation theory in the Yukawa model, within the
covariant formulation of light-front dynamics. We show in particular how
rotational invariance is preserved in this scheme.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure To be published in Physical Review
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