Various languages allow instances of external possession—possessive encoding without a possessive structure in DP. The analysis of these cases has long been a battleground of raising versus control. I provide a new argument from Nez Perce in support of possessor raising of a type thematically parallel to raising to subject. The possessor phrase moves from a possessum-DP-internal position to an ...

Head motion is a common cause of technical failure in functional magnetic resonance imaging. A simple visual alignment system has been developed to provide visual feedback to the subject about his or her head position. The subject is able to readjust his or her head position accurately during a study, should motion occur. This sighting system is incorporated into a visor that fits onto the comm...

Bastiaanse, Koekkoek And Van Zonneveld (2003) hypothesized that individuals with Broca’s aphasia have problems with sentences in which the verb and its arguments are not in their base position. The present study is meant to test this hypothesis with the help of verbs with alternating transitivity: transitive: the boy breaks the glass; intransitive or unaccusative: the glass breaks. Superficiall...

It has been argued by LaPolla (1993, 1995) and Van Valin and LaPolla (1997) -among others -that word order in Mandarin Chinese (henceforth MC) is (almost) exclusively determined by informational/communicative considerations. Though it cannot be denied that word order does encode informative/communicative considerations such as identifiability, foregrounding, and focalization, it is argued here ...

Verb-initial ordering may be derived by fronting the VP (or a larger constituent) to a specifier position higher than the subject. For VSO languages, this analysis requires that the object raise out of the VP to a position below the subject before the (remnant) VP fronts to the higher position. This paper builds a comprehensive analysis of VSO order in the Polynesian language Samoan, employing ...

More recently, Deprez and Pierce (1993) offered an explanation for Klima and Bellugi’s stages based on a parameter-setting model of Universal Grammar (UG) (Chomsky 1981). Deprez and Pierce proposed that the subject raising parameter is initially set to allow the subject to remain inside VP. According to Deprez and Pierce, sentences containing “external negation” result when the subject fails to...

A gapped repeat (respectively, palindrome) occurring in a word w is a factor uvu (respectively, uvu) of w. In such a repeat (palindrome) u is called the arm of the repeat (respectively, palindrome), while v is called the gap. We show how to compute efficiently, for every position i of the word w, the longest gapped repeat and palindrome occurring at that position, provided that the length of th...

We investigated the influence of the Stiles-Crawford peak location on visual acuity, contrast sensitivity and phase transfer with 6 mm diameter pupils in two subjects. Apodising filters were used to move the peak. One subject (SM) had her natural peak 0.9 mm below pupil centre, and visual performance was measured for both this peak position and when the peak was moved to the same distance above...

Where r is robot, s is subject, p is robot joint angles, q is subject joint angles, I is an inertial matrix, G is a coriolis-centripetal matrix, and E and C are forces actively generated by the robot and subject respectively. Fhandle is a coupling term that represents the force that the robot and subject apply to each other. The active subject torques, called the controller, are governed by bot...