A glass syringe with disposable membrane filters was tested as a constant-flow air sampling device. The principle of this sampling device is straightforward: when the syringe is inverted vertically, the syringe plunger falls at a constant speed if an appropriate flow restrictor is connected at the syringe inlet. In case of a 100 ml syringe with two Teflon membrane filters of 0.50 microns in por...

The model theoretic tradition in semantic analysis maintains that determiners denote functions from properties to sets of properties, where in an extensional model a property is a set of individuals. For a determiner d and properties p and q I write ‘d(p,q)’ for ‘[d(p)](q)’ and refer to p as d’s ‘restrictor’ and to q as its ‘nuclear scope’. Barwise and Cooper (1981) and Keenan and Stavi (1986) ...

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In §1, I will show that the protasis-referring reading has a number of unusual properties which are not present under other readings of the conditional. In §2, I will present the classic type of analysis for these conditionals, what I term the MOVEMENT ANALYSES. Under these analyses, the if -clause is at some point an argument of the verb. I will show that movement analyses do not adequately ac...

Abstract The view that if -clauses function semantically as restrictors is widely regarded the only candidate for a fully general account of conditionals. standard implementation this assumes that, where no operator to be restricted in sight, restrict covert epistemic modals. Stipulating such modals, however, lacks independent motivation and leads wrong empirical predictions. In paper I provide...

This article investigates interactions between the scope of QPs and the restrictions imposed by binding theory. It presents new evidence that Condition C applies at (and only at) LF and demonstrates that this condition can serve as a powerful tool for distinguishing among variousclaims regardingthe natureof LF and the inventoryof semantic mechanisms. The conclusionsreached are these: (1) Scope ...

This paper concerns itself with the superlative morpheme -est and its ability to license Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) such as any or ever, and in particular the compositional analysis of a puzzling type of utterance which incorporates these grammatical elements. Specifically, an embedded clause structure which appears at first glance to be a restrictive relative clause modifier will be argued...

A new approach based on experiments aiming at the integration of content originating from pointing plus definite descriptions (objects called “CDs”) in dialogue is presented. We develop it against the background of the early semiotic positions of Wittgenstein, Peirce, and Quine, the intentionalism of Kaplan, Neo-Peirce-Wittgenstein-Quine approaches and “mixed” points of view. Our experimental d...

National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO 80303 Sample injection in supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) is usually performed using a combination of apparatus from liquid chromatography and capillary gas chromatography. The device most often consists of an injection valve (of the type used in liquid chromatography) followed by a flow splitter controlled by a restrictor. It ...