Breton Masculine Human Plurals, Locality, and Impoverishment

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-55
Author(s):  
Jean-François Mondon
Keyword(s):  
Locality Condition ◽  
Precise Timing ◽  
Vocabulary Insertion

This paper presents an apparent locality condition violation observed in Standard Breton masculine human plurals ending in -où. It proposes a unique impoverishment rule deleting a syntacticosemantic feature conditioned by a specified phonological exponent. Adopting a specific architectural view of lenition, it forces a rethinking of the precise timing of various post-syntactic processes, including certain types of impoverishment rules as well Agree-Copy in dissociated Agr nodes. It also lends support to the independent claims that syntacticosemantic features are not overridden during Spell-Out and that Vocabulary Insertion applies to a linearized structure, not a hierarchical one.

scholarly journals MOST Spacebased Photometry of HD 189733: Precise Timing Measurements for Transits Across an Active Star

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (S253) ◽  
pp. 459-461
Author(s):  
E. Miller-Ricci ◽  
J. F. Rowe ◽  
D. Sasselov ◽  
J. M. Matthews ◽  
R. Kuschnig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Orbital Period ◽  
Mass Range ◽  
Active Star ◽  
Precise Timing ◽  
Resonant Orbits ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Test Spot ◽  
Transit Times ◽  
Nearly Continuous ◽  
Parent Star

AbstractWe have measured transit times for HD 189733 passing in front of its bright (V = 7.67) chromospherically active and spotted parent star. Nearly continuous broadband photometry of this system was obtained with the MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) space telesope during 21 days in August 2006, monitoring 10 consecutive transits. We have used these data to search for deviations from a constant orbital period which can indicate the presence of additional planets in the system that are as yet undetected by Doppler searches. We find no variations above the level of ±45 s, ruling out planets in the Earth-to-Neptune mass range in a number of resonant orbits. We find that a number of complications can arise in measuring transit times for a planet transiting an active star with large star spots. However, such transiting systems are also useful in that they can help to constrain and test spot models. This has implications for the large number of transiting systems expected to be discovered by the CoRoT and Kepler missions.

Suppletive verbal morphology in Korean and the mechanism of vocabulary insertion

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
INKIE CHUNG
Keyword(s):  
Short Form ◽  
Distributed Morphology ◽  
Morphological Operations ◽  
Verbal Morphology ◽  
Phonological Features ◽  
Vocabulary Insertion ◽  
Correct Form ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Feature Negative ◽  
Late Insertion

This paper provides a Distributed Morphology analysis of the paradoxical interaction of the two cases of verbal suppletion in Korean, and argues that the two suppletion types are characterized by two different types of morphological operations. The two roots found with short-form negation and honorification suggest different morphological structures: [[Neg-V] Hon] for al- ‘know’, molu- ‘not.know’, a-si- ‘know-hon’, molu-si- (not *an(i) a-si-) ‘neg know-hon’; and [Neg [V-Hon]] for iss- ‘exist’, eps- ‘not.exist’, kyey-si- ‘exist-hon’, an(i) kyey-si- (not *eps-(u)-si-) ‘neg exist-hon’. Predicate repetition constructions support the [[Neg-V] Hon] structure. In this structure, however, the negative suppletion (analyzed as fusion of negation and the root) is blocked by the honorific suffix structurally more peripheral to the root. C-command is the only requirement for context allomorphy in Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993). Since the [+hon] feature c-commands the root, the root can show honorific suppletive allomorphy in the first cycle with negation intervening between the root and [+hon]. Negation fusion occurs in the second cycle after vocabulary insertion of the root. Fusion, then, should refer to vocabulary items, not abstract features, and will be interleaved with vocabulary insertion. If the output of the root is /kyey/ due to the honorific feature, negative suppletion will not apply and the correct form an(i) kyey-si- will be derived. Therefore, both of the distinct morphological operations for suppletion, i.e., fusion and contextual allomorphy, are necessary. The revised formulation of fusion shows that certain morphological operations follow vocabulary insertion. This derivational approach to the suppletion interaction provides support for separation of phonological and nonphonological features and for late insertion of phonological features.

scholarly journals Precise Timing of Expression of aPlasmodium falciparum-derived Transgene inPlasmodium bergheiIs a Critical Determinant of Subsequent Subcellular Localization

1998 ◽  
Vol 273 (24) ◽  
pp. 15119-15124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clemens H. M. Kocken ◽  
Anne Marie van der Wel ◽  
Martin A. Dubbeld ◽  
David L. Narum ◽  
Franciscus M. van de Rijke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Subcellular Localization ◽  
Critical Determinant ◽  
Precise Timing

Variation in the timing of ovulation relative to other follicular phase events following natural and induced luteal regression in dairy cows

1999 ◽  
Vol 1999 ◽  
pp. 63-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.E. Mann ◽  
G.S. Starbuck ◽  
M. Benboulaid ◽  
A.R. Peters ◽  
G.E. Lamming
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Cows ◽  
Follicular Phase ◽  
Ultrasound Scanning ◽  
Luteal Regression ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Precise Timing ◽  
Breeding Programmes ◽  
Prostaglandin F

Insemination at an inappropriate time is one of many constraints to good fertility in dairy cows. As a result, many studies have attempted to improve the synchrony of oestrus in controlled breeding programmes. However, the success of insemination depends not merely on the detection of oestrus, but also on the timing of ovulation relative to insemination. Thus a better understanding of the factors associated with the precise timing of behavioural oestrus and ovulation is required. In this study the time of ovulation has been determined, by ultrasound scanning, in relation to a variety of follicular phase events in dairy cows following both natural luteolysis and luteolysis induced by treatment with a prostaglandin F2a analogue. The objectives were firstly to determine whether differences existed in the timing of follicular phase events following natural and induced luteal regression and secondly to determine the degree of variation that exists between the timing of ovulation and the timing of other follicular phase events.

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