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The Adjectival construct in Arabic
We propose an analysis of the adjectival construct in Arabic in LFG, building on previous work in LFG on a Welsh construction which shows several similarities to the Arabic (Mittendorf and Sadler, 2008) and work on the MSA and cognate Hebrew constructions by Hazout (2000); Kremers (2005); Siloni (2002); Heller (2002); Kim (2002). The construction involves an adjective occurring with an immediately following definite nominal, which denotes a property, part or quality of the noun that the adjectivemodifies (in attributive use) or is predicated of (in predicative constructions). The major characteristics of this construction are that the post-adjectival nominal serves to delimit the respect in which the adjective denotes a property of the external nominal, and the adjectival head and the GEN complement are subject to a very strict adjacency requirement. We present a syntactic analysis, showing that the construction is formed in the syntax rather than the morphology, and sketch out a proposal as to how the semantics of the construction might be captured
Putting it All Together: Agreement, Incorporation, Coordination and External Possession in Wubuy (Australia)
In this paper we examine the interaction of a number of grammatical phenomena in Wubuy, a polysynthetic language from northern Australia, and show how they can be given a comprehensive analysis within the framework of LFG. While each of these phenomena ? noun incorporation, verbal agreement, coordination and external possession ? has received various treatments within the LFG literature, no one study has addressed the compatibility of these analyses under interaction, despite the fact that they frequently co-occur in the world?s languages. We use data from Wubuy to showcase the effects of this interaction, and investigate the implications for LFG and for LFG analyses of polysynthetic languages more generally
ADR and the NLRA: Will the Board Defer?
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
Address of Hon. S.B. Sadler, Judge of the Court of Cumberland County
Address given by Hon. S.B. Sadler, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County at the dedication of Trickett Hall at the Dickinson School of Law. Originally published in Volume 23 of the Dickinson Law Review, 1918. [23 Dick. L. Rev. 8 (1918)]
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