295 research outputs found
A new application for raising in HPSG: complex prepositions
One of the most popular techniques used in HPSG-based studies to describe linguistic phenomena is the raising mechanism. Besides ordinary raising verbs or adjectives, this tool has been applied for handling verbal complexes and discontinuous constituents, among other phenomena. In this paper, a new application for raising within the HPSG paradigm will be discussed, thereby investigating data from the prepositional domain. We will analyze linguistic properties of word combinations in German consisting of a preposition, a noun, and another preposition (such as auf Grund von (‘by virtue of’)), thus arguing that raising is the most appropriate method for satisfactorily describing the crucial syntactic features which are typical for those expressions. The objective of this paper is thus to demonstrate the efficiency of the raising mechanism as used in HPSG, and therefore, to emphasize the importance of designing a satisfactory uniform theory of raising within this grammar framework
Using Corpus Statistics in the Modeling of Linguistic Paradigms
This paper presents how corpus statistics can be used to verify complex inflectional paradigms. This will be demonstrated using a set of traditionally assumed inflectional paradigms of third person personal pronouns in Polish
A New Application for Raising in HPSG: Complex Prepositions
One of the most popular techniques used in HPSG-based studies to describe linguistic phenomena is the raising mechanism. Besides ordinary raising verbs or adjectives, this tool has been applied for handling verbal complexes and discontinuous constituents, among other phenomena. In this paper, a new application for raising within the HPSG paradigm will be discussed, thereby investigating data from the prepositional domain. We will analyze linguistic properties of word combinations in German consisting of a preposition, a noun, and another preposition (such as auf Grund von (‘by virtue of’)), thus arguing that raising is the most appropriate method for satisfactorily describing the crucial syntactic features which are typical for those expressions. The objective of this paper is thus to demonstrate the efficiency of the raising mechanism as used in HPSG, and therefore, to emphasize the importance of designing a satisfactory uniform theory of raising within this grammar framework
The Syntax of “Complex Prepositions” in German: An HPSG Approach
Many modern languages commonly use expressions that seem unpredictable regarding standard grammar regularities. Among these expressions, sequences consisting of a preposition, a noun, another preposition, and another noun are particularly frequent. The issue of these expressions, usually termed in linguistic literature as "complex prepositions", "phrasal prepositions" or "preposition-like word formations", can certainly be considered to be a cross-linguistic problem (On "complex prepositions" in German and in other languages see (Benes 1974), (Buscha 1984)}, (Lindqvist 1994), (Meibauer 1995), (Quirk and Mulholland 1964), (Wollmann 1996). In this paper, I will focus exclusively on German data, because they provide very explicit and convincing linguistic evidence which motivates and supports my approach. However, I assert that the analysis proposed here for German can also be applied to other languages such as Polish or English
Neutrino oscillations in the front form of Hamiltonian dynamics
Since future, precise theory of neutrino oscillations should include the
understanding of the neutrino mass generation and a precise, relativistic
description of hadrons, and observing that such a future theory may require
Dirac's FF of Hamiltonian dynamics, we provide a preliminary FF description of
neutrino oscillations using the Feynman--Gell-Mann-Levy version of an effective
theory in which leptons interact directly with whole nucleons and pions,
instead of with quarks via intermediate bosons. The interactions are treated in
the lowest-order perturbative expansion in the coupling constants in the
effective theory, including a perturbative solution of the coupled constraint
equations. Despite missing quarks and their binding mechanism, the effective
Hamiltonian description is sufficiently precise for showing that the standard
oscillation formula results from the interference of amplitudes with different
neutrinos in virtual intermediate states. This holds provided that the inherent
experimental uncertainties of preparing beams of incoming and measuring rates
of production of outgoing particles are large enough for all of the different
neutrino intermediate states to contribute as alternative virtual paths through
which the long-baseline scattering process can manifest itself. The result that
an approximate, effective FF theory reproduces the standard oscillation formula
at the level of transition rates for currently considered long-baseline
experiments--even though the space-time development of scattering is traced
differently and the relevant interaction Hamiltonians are constructed
differently than in the commonly used IF of dynamics--has two implications. It
shows that the common interpretation of experimental results is not the only
one, and it opens the possibility of considering more precise theories taking
advantage of the features of the FF that are not available in the IF.Comment: revtex4, 10 page
National Academic Conference – Financial Crime in Poland
This is a speech by superintendent Tomasz Trawinski, the regional police commander in Poznań, who opened the first of the series of conferences devoted to the history of financial crime in Poland. The present threat of escalating financial crime is not only the concern of the agencies established for fighting this abnormality but also of other institutions which can potentially be of help in fulfilling this task. In this field, the Polish police is open to new forms of cooperation and one of them is the collaboration with academic and scientific centres
The possibility to use a vibration signal to estimate a state of rolling bearings after operation
In the article the construction of the test bench for the durability test of the friction couplings was showed. The properties of the tested tribological pairs are fully described, i.e. chemical constitution, kind of material and the results of the surface topography tests of basic material and with lubricant micropockets. The methodology and scope of the preliminary tests, including observation of course of changes in vibration signals on the housing of the pin-on-disc tester, for different load values and tribological couplings, i.e. with textured or non-textured surface. The vibroacustic research was carried out with industrial unit CSI 2130 by Emerson and with vibration sensor A0760GP. Comparative analysis of vibration signals and amplitude-frequency spectrums was performed for chosen work conditions of the tribological pair. Finally, the possibility to use the measurement of vibration signal to predict a seizure of the tribological pair was described and directions for further research were given
(Anti-)Control in German: evidence from comparative, corpus- and psycholinguistic studies
The present investigation targets the phenomenon commonly called control. Many languages including German and Polish employ non-finite clauses (besides finite clauses) as propositional complements. The subject of these complement clauses is left unexpressed and must generally be interpreted co-referentially with the subject or object of the matrix clause (subject or object control). However. there are also infinitive-selecting verbs that do not allow for a co- referential interpretation of the embedded subject - semantically, the embedded infinitives of these anti-control verbs are thus less dependent on or less unifiable with the matrix proposition. In Polish anti-control constructions, non-finite complements are overtly marked with the complementizer zeby, suggesting that they are structurally more complex (namely. containing a C-projection) than the non-finite complements in control constructions lacking zeby (modulo special contexts. viz. 'control switch'). In a comparative perspective, the paper brings corpuslinguistic and experimental evidence to bear on the question whether surface appearances notwithstanding, the infinitival complements of anti-control verbs in German should similarly be analyzed as truly sentential, i.e., C-headed structures
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