Phrase structure and the syntax of clitics in the history of Spanish Author: Josep M. Fontana Supervisor: Anthony S. Kroch This thesis is a qualitative and quantitative study of the changes that occurred in the phrase structure and system of pronominal clitics in medieval and renaissance Spanish, with the goal of explaining the basic differences between the syntactic properties of clitics in Ol...

To the Editor: A 48-yr-old man with a persistent left bronchopleurocutaneous fistula (BPCF) and empyema thoracis following pneumonectomy presented for bronchial stump closure and left thoracoplasty. The patient refused any attempts at awake intubation. He was placed in semi-recumbent position with the left side down after topicalization and mask induction. Right-sided double-lumen tube (DLT) pl...

Paraphrases of an expression are alternative linguistic expressions conveying the same information as the original. Technology for handling paraphrases has been attracting increasing attention due to its potential in a wide range of natural language processing applications; e.g., machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, summarization, authoring and revision support, and r...

In parasitic-gap constructions an illicit gap inside a syntactic island becomes acceptable in combination with an additional licit gap, a result that has interesting implications for theories of grammar. Such constructions hold even greater interest for the question of the relation between grammatical knowledge and real-time language processing. This article presents results from two experiment...

The present paper examines (in)stability in the interpretation and production of clauseinitial direct objects in the Spanish grammars of monolinguals, heritage speakers, and second language learners. Analysis of data obtained through two tasks indicates a developmental continuum: monolinguals most closely approximate grammatical targets in which generic DPs are fronted into a Topic position and...

TOPIC: Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Disease TYPE: Fellow Case Reports INTRODUCTION: While the colloquial airway consideration in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients is cervical instability, cricoarytenoid joint (CJ) involvement present up to 70% (1). We a case 64-year-old gentleman who presented extremis with stridor and hypoxemia setting known advanced required fiberoptic intubation via...

Here I presuppose that the reader is familiar with Collins’s (1997) argument for local economy and against global economy on the basis of Locative Inversion (LI). I consider the following three questions concerning LI. (A) Are a sentence involving LI (LI sentence) and the corresponding sentence with an ordinary word order (non-LI sentence) based on the same Numeration (N)? (B) If the answer to ...

This paper introduces a description language for syntactically annotated corpora which allows for encoding both the syntactic annotation to a corpus and the queries to a syntactically annotated corpus. In terms of descriptive adequacy and computational efficiency, the description language is a compromise between script-like corpus query languages and high-level, typed unification-based grammar ...

In this paper the functional uncertainty machinery in LFG is compared with the treatment of long distance dependencies in TAG. It is shown that the functional uncertainty machinery is redundant in TAG, i.e., what functional uncertainty accomplishes for LFG follows f~om the TAG formalism itself and some aspects of the linguistic theory instantiated in TAG. It is also shown that the analyses prov...