By the notion "bound focus", we mean phonological prominence and semantic affectedness that is dependent on the presence of a focus-demanding lexical element such as only or even. This paper tries to demonstrate that modem conceptions of syntactic theory such as the Minimalist Program explain in a natural way the various word orders that can be observed. Crucial use is made of the idea that foc...

No one has come up with a completely satisfactory set of deep cases relations (or thematic relations). The underlying reason is that any finite set of case relations can capture only some of the generalizations desired. I propose instead a feature-space representation of relational information, where the axes are such things as degree of responsibility, degree of activity, and degree of affecte...

In this paper, the authors investigated the various factors, which can affect the performance of a turbofan engine. For this, the various subunits of a turbofan engine like inlet duct, compressor, combustion chamber, liner, turbine, exhaust nozzle etc. are investigated to find its various reliability characteristics through Markov process and supplementary variable technique (SVT). The main adv...

In this work we analyze objects with non-canonical case markers in Turkish. We show that semantic factors give rise to non-canonical case marking and try to determine criteria to decide on the grammatical function status of non-canonical objects. We conclude that ablative partitives and dative objects participating in an affectedness alternation should be analyzed as straightforward objects (OB...

2 Hebrew PD in an areal European perspective: a corpus study 4 2.1 Introducing typological scales: the animacy scale . . . . . . . 4 2.2 The Israblog corpus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 The effect of animacy in Hebrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3.1 Pronominality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3.2 Animacy of full NPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Abstract In several ancient and modern Indo-European languages, the partitive-genitive may be used in place of accusative to encode second argument two-place verbs. Ancient Greek two types object encoding can alternate with change-of-state verbs, alternation being viewed as connected degrees patient affectedness: encodes partially affected objects. Alternation also extends experiential which ar...

Abstract Amis (Austronesian, Taiwan) displays a rich, partly symmetrical voice system and split case-marking pattern which are selected restricted by (i) verb classes whose basic diathesis correlates with semantic properties such as activities versus states, (ii) Aktionsart features (i.e., atelic telic accomplishment achievements), also denote degrees of patient affectedness. Referential defini...