In my talk, I will propose that one source of information the interpretation process makes use of in determining the meaning of an utterance are conceptual frames which are evoked in the hearer by the expressions used in the utterance. The frames provide potential discourse referents in the form of thematic roles which may or may not get further specified in the course of interpreting an uttera...

Using Tagalog as a case study, this paper provides an analysis of a cross-linguistically well attested phenomenon, namely, cases in which a bare NP’s syntactic position is linked to its interpretation as definite or indefinite. Previous approaches to this phenomenon, including analyses of Tagalog, appeal to specialized interpretational rules like Diesing’s Mapping Hypothesis. I argue that such ...

Resource stratification for ground-based and remotely-sensed methods of rangeland assessment is essential for locating appropriate sampling sites. This is particularly the case when site comparisons are required, as in the case of grazing gradient analysis, wherein the objective is to limit the number of environmental variables. This study compared stratified units derived from supervised, unsu...

The task of planning in a dynamic and uncertain domain is considerably more challenging than in domains traditionally adopted by classical planning methods. Planning in real situations has to be 8 knowiedp intm ptoceu, particudarly since it is not easy to predict all the effects of one’s actions. However, many knowledge bated implementations are susceptible to brittleness. Contract bridge oRea ...

Title of dissertation: THEMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN NOUNS Juan Carlos Castillo, Doctor of Philosophy, 2001 Dissertation directed by: Professor Juan Uriagereka Department of Linguistics This dissertation explores some of the traditionally labeled possessive relations, and proposes a basic syntactic structure that underlies them. The two nouns act as subject and predicate in a small clause, dominat...

A three-month longitudinal case study is reported of a L2 learner's response to corrective feedback. While the major bulk of evidence indicates that correction on the whole has positive effects on the particular learner's learning, there is also evidence contradicting the popular assumption that feedback is always semantically transparent with respect to the learning problem. Confronted with co...

Th is research note describes an interconnection between touristic potential of localities impacted by the First and the Second World War, by focusing on a case study of cemeteries in the North-East of Slovakia. Th e case study proposes to create a Slovak part of the ‘dark tourism thematic trail’ through cemeteries from the First World War that could join the existing Polish part of the trail a...

During pregnancy and the transition toward motherhood, a special time for the restructuring of the female identity and representational world, dreaming may play an important function in the psychic life. If we accept that psychological and psychosocial risk factors influence representation during pregnancy, this article explores, from a psychodynamic perspective, how the presence/absence of bio...

The present research focuses on how children integrate the antecedent of different kinds of anaphor into their on-going interpretation of an utterance, and on the kinds of cues they use to help them to do this. Theae issues were studied by examining the on-line processing of three types of anaphoric devices -repeated noun phrases, general terms and pronoun anaphors. The data showed that by the ...