In her dissertation, Janet Fodor has argued that the quantificational force and the intensional status of certain quantifier phrases can be evaluated independently. The proposal was only halfway accepted: the existence of non-specific transparent readings is well-established today, but specific opaque readings are deemed illusory. I argue that they are real and outline a semantic framework that...

A left-corner parsing algorithm with topdown filtering has been reported to show very efficient performance for unificationbased systems. However, due to the nontermination of parsing with left-recursive grammars, top-down constraints must be weakened. In this paper, a general method of maximizing top-down constraints is proposed. The method provides a procedure to dynamically compute *restrict...

www.ejhp.org 54 INTRODUCTION Elastomeric devices are disposable infusion pumps mainly consisting of an elastomeric reservoir in which the solution to be administered is placed, and a flow restrictor system located in the administration tube set. The combination of both the pressure generated by the filled reservoir and the flow restrictor, sets a fixed flow rate of the solution according to Poi...

Aerostatic thrust bearing compensated by multi-orifices and porous material restrictor simultaneously is proposed to improve the static performance of bearing. Load Carrying Capacity (LCC), stiffness flow field characteristics are obtained Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulation. The influences supply pressure, orifice number, diameter, distribution, thickness permeability coefficient on a...

The static Ledinegg instability in horizontal microchannels under different flow conditions and fluids pertinent to electronics cooling was studied experimentally and numerically. Two fluids, water at sub-atmospheric pressures and refrigerant HFE-7100, were examined for a range of heat fluxes, mass fluxes, and channel hydraulic diameters. Numerical predictions from the developed pressure gradie...

Background and purpose - Biodegradable cement restrictors are widely used in hip arthroplasty. Like others, we observed osteolytic reactions associated with a specific cement restrictor (SynPlug; made of PolyActive) and reviewed our patients. Patients and methods - We identified 703 patients with suitable radiographs from our database (2007 to 2012) who underwent cemented hip arthroplasty and r...

Quantified sentences constitute a recalcitrant problem for theories of presupposition projection, and a great number of attempts have been made to explicate the projection properties of quantificational expressions (Karttunen & Peters 1979, Cooper 1983, Heim 1983, van der Sandt 1992, Beaver 1994, 2001, Fox 2008, 2012, George 2008a,b, Schlenker 2008, Charlow 2009, Chemla 2009b, Schlenker 2009, F...

This paper develops a type of dynamic semantics in which contexts include not only information, but also questions, whose answers are ranked by strength. The questions can be local to the restrictor of a quantifier, and the quantifier can bind into them. The proposed framework satisfies several desiderata arising from quantificational expressions involving exclusives (e.g. only, just, mere and ...

It was shown in Schlenker (to appear) that in ASL one and the same anaphoric element has nominal, temporal, and modal uses, and that in all three domains generalized quantifiers can introduce loci (= positions in signing space) that denote what is often called the 'maximal set', i.e. the maximal set of objects that satisfy both the restrictor and the nuclear scope. But the anaphoric status of r...