In (1a), respective appears to enforce a mapping on the main predication that aligns Mr. Smith with his wife and Mr. Jones with his wife, as paraphrased in (1b). Note that sentence (1c) also has this reading, in addition to one that respective appears to rule out in (1a), in which both men love both women. There is an assortment of interesting facts that any analysis of respective must be compa...

As these authors observe, the sentences in (1) and (2) are similar in both form and meaning. The truncated clefts in (1) look like the clefts in (2) minus the cleft clause, and in the right contexts, each of the sentences in (1) can be used with the meaning of the corresponding sentence in (2). Following a question like Who went to Hamburg?, (1b) can be used to convey what (2b) conveys, and fol...

Smith, David L. MSIE, Purdue University, May 2015. Machining as a Mechanical Property Test Revisited. Major Professor: Srinivasan Chandrasekar. There is much need for data on mechanical behavior of metals at high strains and strain rates. This need is dictated by modeling of processes like forming and machining, wherein the material in the deformation zone is subjected to severe deformation con...