Possessor Raising

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Rose Deal
Keyword(s):  
Nez Perce ◽  
Possessor Raising ◽  
Internal Position

Various languages allow instances of external possession—possessive encoding without a possessive structure in DP. The analysis of these cases has long been a battleground of raising versus control. I provide a new argument from Nez Perce in support of possessor raising of a type thematically parallel to raising to subject. The possessor phrase moves from a possessum-DP-internal position to an athematic A-position within vP. Like raising to subject, this movement is obligatory and does not result in the assignment of a new θ-role to the moving element. A case-driven treatment of possessor raising is proposed.

Megaloads and Mobilization

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Corrie Grosse
Keyword(s):  
Oil Sands ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Nez Perce ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Canadian Province ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Heavy Crude ◽  
Ways Of Life

From 2011 to 2014 fossil fuel corporations trucked tar sands processing machinery along rural Idaho highways. The machinery was bound for the world's largest deposits of tar or oil sands, a heavy crude oil substance called bitumen, located in the western Canadian province of Alberta. These loads of machinery, what became known as megaloads, encountered much resistance. Throughout Idaho and the surrounding region, a network organized opposition. Neighbors, grassroots organizations, nonprofits, and the Nez Perce and other tribes all collaborated. They held information sessions, protested, waged legal battles, monitored the loads, and blockaded highways. What oil companies hoped would be a cost-effective solution for transporting their megaloads became a David versus Goliath, Coyote versus the Monster—to reference the Nez Perce creation story—struggle to protect rural and indigenous ways of life and sovereignty, and the planet.

Tales of the Nez Perce

1986 ◽  
Vol 99 (393) ◽  
pp. 322
Author(s):  
Alan G. Marshall ◽  
Donald M. Hines
Keyword(s):  
Nez Perce

scholarly journals Cyclicity and Connectivity in Nez Perce Relative Clauses

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Rose Deal
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Relative Clause ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Relative Clauses ◽  
Head Noun ◽  
Intermediate Position ◽  
Nez Perce ◽  
The Core ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Relative Pronouns

This article studies two aspects of movement in relative clauses, focusing on evidence from Nez Perce. First, I argue that relativization involves cyclic Ā-movement, even in monoclausal relatives: the relative operator moves to Spec,CP via an intermediate position in an Ā outer specifier of TP. The core arguments draw on word order, complementizer choice, and a pattern of case attraction for relative pronouns. Ā cyclicity of this type suggests that the TP sister of relative C constitutes a phase—a result whose implications extend to an ill-understood corner of the English that-trace effect. Second, I argue that Nez Perce relativization provides new evidence for an ambiguity thesis for relative clauses, according to which some but not all relatives are derived by head raising. The argument comes from connectivity and anticonnectivity in morphological case. A crucial role is played by a pattern of inverse case attraction, wherein the head noun surfaces in a case determined internal to the relative clause. These new data complement the range of existing arguments concerning head raising, which draw primarily on connectivity effects at the syntax-semantics interface.

The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story by Elliot West

2010 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-253
Author(s):  
Andrew H. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Nez Perce ◽  
Indian War

Sarcomere length control in striated muscle

1982 ◽  
Vol 242 (3) ◽  
pp. H411-H420 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. van Heuningen ◽  
W. H. Rijnsburger ◽  
H. E. ter Keurs
Keyword(s):  
Sarcomere Length ◽  
Striated Muscle ◽  
Feedforward Control ◽  
Muscle Length ◽  
Transient Behavior ◽  
Loop Filter ◽  
Internal Position ◽  
Optimal Damping ◽  
Internal Velocity ◽  
Muscle Responses

A system that makes control of muscle length (ML), sarcomere length (SL), and force (F) possible in striated muscle preparations is described. SL was measured by light diffraction techniques and two diffractometers. Control was performed by influencing ML with a penmotor system with a frequency response of 190 Hz. SL or F could be controlled by interrupting the internal position (i.e., ML) feedback of the motor and by closing the respective loop. Velocity feedback of the motor through an internal velocity coil was maintained in all cases for optimal damping. Steady-state error of the system was minimized by an integrating loop filter. The feedback path was selected by means of potentiometers or analog switches. Electronic stops in the circuit protected the muscle against excessive stretch and load. A microprocessor-based average-response computer could be used for feedforward control to eliminate noise or to analyze longitudinal uniformity of the muscle. Responses of rat cardiac trabeculae during SL and F control are shown. Transient behavior of SL and F during control and measures to eliminate the transients are discussed.

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