scholarly journals Deriving ablative, privative, and reversative meanings in Catalan and Spanish

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-185
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Structural Behaviour ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Semantic Class ◽  
Internal Argument ◽  
The Core ◽  
Generative Lexicon ◽  
Canonical Approach ◽  
Qualia Structure

The most productive way to encode ablative, privative, and reversative meanings in current Catalan and Spanish is by means of des- prefixation. This paper investigates how these related values are obtained both from a structural and from a conceptual perspective. To analyze the structural behaviour of these predicates, a new neo-constructionist model is adopted: Nanosyntax, according to which lexical items are syntactic constructs. As for the conceptual content associated to these verbs, it is accounted for by means of a non-canonical approach to the Generative Lexicon Theory developed by Pustejovsky (1995 ff.).The core proposal is that des- prefixed verbs with an ablative, a privative, or a reversative meaning share the same syntactic structure, and that the different interpretation of each semantic class emerges as a consequence of the interactions generated, at a conceptual level, between the Qualia Structure of the verbal root and that of the internal argument of the verb.

scholarly journals Leontius of Byzantium and the Concept of Enhypostaton

1970 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-218
Author(s):  
Anna Zhyrkova
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
The Core ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Core Issues ◽  
Philosophical Questions

The concept of “enhypostaton” was introduced into theological discourse during the sixth-century Christological debates with the aim of justifying the unitary subjectivity of Christ by reclassifying Christ’s human nature as ontically non-independent. The coinage of the term is commonly ascribed to Leontius of Byzantium. Its conceptual content has been recognized by contemporary scholarship as relevant to the core issues of Christology, as well as possessing significance for such philosophical questions as individuation and the nature of individual entityhood. Even so, despite its role in the formation of classical Christological thought, the notion of “enhypostaton” is often regarded as obscure and not clearly defined. This paper aims to shed some light on the meaning of Leontius’ conception of it, in respect of its specifically philosophical import.

scholarly journals ЗНЕЦІНЕННЯ ПРИНЦИПУ СПРАВЕДЛИВОСТІ ЧИ СПРОБИ ЙОГО ПІДМІНИ ПРАВОМ СИЛЬНОГО: ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ РЕФОРМУВАННЯ ТРУДОВОГО ЗАКОНОДАВСТВА ПРОЄКТОМ ЗАКОНУ ПРО ПРАЦЮ

2020 ◽  
pp. 58-86
Author(s):  
О. О. Коваленко
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
The Core ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
Principle Of Justice ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost

The purpose of the scientific paper is to characterize the correlation between the conceptual content of the principle of justice and the concept of reforming the labor legislation under the draft law of Ukraine «On Labor» with determining the prospects of future labor law of Ukraine. The author emphasizes that labor law rules, like no other branch of law, should be based on justice. This justice, once acquired at the cost of human life, has become so commonplace and commonplace that labor law rules are taken for granted and contain absolutely unnecessary ele­ments that can be changed, eliminated, ignored… But in reality, all of these are important. and the necessary elements of a single interconnected mechanism, the core of which is justice. It is noted that the disappearance of at least one element of this mechanism means that justice is fading, and is therefore inadmissible in labor law. It is concluded that the draft Labor Law is an attempt to replace the principle of justice with the right of the strong, and therefore it is alien to the modern world and national consciousness and has no potential for reforming the labor legislation of Ukraine.

scholarly journals ‘The Very Foundations of Any System of Criminal Justice’: Criminal Responsibility in the Australian Model Criminal Code

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arlie Loughnan
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Top Down ◽  
The Core ◽  
Reform Project

The Model Criminal Code (MCC) was intended to be a Code for all Australian jurisdictions. It represents a high point of faith in the value and possibility of systematising, rationalising and modernising criminal law. The core of the MCC is Chapter 2, the ‘general principles of criminal responsibility’, which outlines the ‘physical’ and ‘fault’ elements of criminal offences, and defines concepts such as recklessness. This paper assesses the MCC as a criminal law reform project and explores questions of how the MCC came into being, and why it took shape in certain ways at a particular point in time. The paper tackles these questions from two different perspectives—‘external’ and ‘internal’ (looking at the MCC from the ‘outside’ and the ‘inside’). I make two main arguments. First, I argue that, driven by a ‘top down’ law reform process, the MCC came into being at a time when changes in crime and criminal justice were occurring, and that it may be understood as an attempt to achieve stability in a time of change. Second, I argue that the significance of the principles of criminal responsibility, which formed the central pivot of the MCC, lies on the conceptual level—in relation to the language through which the criminal law is thought about, organised and reformed.

Structure within Morphemic Meaning

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-231
Author(s):  
Leonard Talmy
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Content ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Meaning

Abstract The entire conceptual content represented by a single morpheme—its plenary meaning—is in general both copious and structured. This structuring consists of both the patterning of its content and the distribution of attention over that pattern. With respect to the patterning of its content, a morpheme’s plenary meaning can be divided into a core meaning and an associated meaning. In turn, its associated meaning can be subdivided into five sectors: the holistic, infrastructure, collateral, disposition, and attitude sectors. And with respect to its distribution of attention, eight specific attentional factors and three general attentional principles are cited. The main attentional factor is that a morpheme’s core meaning is generally more salient than its associated meaning or any of the sectors therein. But another attentional factor holds that the attitude sector, especially its expletivity type, can challenge or exceed the core meaning in salience.

PERFORMANCE OF CONNECTED PRECAST LIGHTWEIGHT SANDWICH FOAMED CONCRETE PANEL UNDER FLEXURAL LOAD

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noridah Mohamad ◽  
Abdul Aziz Abdul Samad ◽  
Noorwirdawati Ali ◽  
Josef Hadipramana ◽  
Norwati Jamaluddin
Keyword(s):  
Failure Modes ◽  
Ultimate Load ◽  
Core Layer ◽  
Crack Pattern ◽  
Control Panel ◽  
Structural Behaviour ◽  
The Core ◽  
Steel Bar ◽  
Mode Of Failure ◽  
Foamed Concrete

This paper investigates the structural behaviour of two connected Sandwiched Precast Lightweight Foamed Concrete Panel (PLFP) in term of their load bearing capacities and failure modes. Three (3) connected PLFP panels were cast using foamed concrete as the wythe and polystyrene as the core layer. Each connected panel were cast from two single panels connected using L-bar connection. The panels were strengthened with steel bar reinforcement embedded in both wythes which were connected to each other by the steel shear truss connectors. The connected PLFP panels were tested under flexural load. A single PLFP panel was cast as a control panel and tested under axial load. The results were analysed in term of the panel’s ultimate load, crack pattern and mode of failure. Results showed that the two connected PLFP panels were able to sustain slightly lower ultimate load compared to single PLFP panel. Crack at 45 degree angle at top half of panel and small crack at surface between joint of the connection were observed.

Objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-213
Author(s):  
Karolina Krawczak
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Diachronic Changes

Subjectivity and intersubjectivity have long been recognized as central to the understanding of the relations between language, mind and society. They arise in an interactive world for the mind of the individual and shape his/her (inter)personal reality. In present-day linguistics, there are two major approaches to subjectivity. One is associated with Langacker and focuses on cognitive construal. The other framework, which was developed by Traugott, zooms in on diachronic changes on the conceptual level. Naturally, diachronic developments are intimately related to synchronic variation and the conceptual content of an utterance hinges on its presentation and perspectivization. This paper, therefore, argues that, rather than being discrepant and treating distinct phenomena, as is widely suggested (e.g. Brisard 2006; Nuyts 2001, 2012), the two frameworks can be reconciled. By so doing, the ensuing discussion yields an integrated view on objectivity and (inter)subjectivity, a view that will be organized around four main arguments.

scholarly journals Extracts of Terminology Lexicons Types in Level of Concept Expression

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Gani Pllana ◽  
Sadete Pllana
Keyword(s):  
Human Activities ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Word ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Lexical Unit ◽  
Common Unit ◽  
Common Concept

It can be emphasized that depending on the types of human activities, whether is that common, simple or high, the types of lexical language units function, moving from one conceptual level to the other according to the need of the communication necessities presented in front of the language. It can be noticed clearly, not rarely, in technical communication, as in other communications, and particularly in this case, the same sign as a lexical unit that expresses a common concept of wide content can also indicate a concept of a special content , restricted to its use and known by a narrow circle of users of the language, as it can be said for foot (man) and foot (mineral), pocket (coat) and pocket (petroleum), horn (animal) and horn (anvil). In this case, with the highest level in which the word rises, a modified concept of a lower or higher degree is also associated comparing with the meaning of the unit it’s coming from, for example, pocket (higher), compared to pocket (coat) (lower). In another case, raising the word to a higher level can only be considered as a transition to another level, but more or less of the same conceptual content. This type of concept, which is also called a dual concept (Duro, 1983: 113), makes the same unit to elevate to the highest level, in addition to the concept that expresses as: door1 (common word) and door1.1 . (building), window1 (house) and window1.1. (buildings), as a special common unit and of construction field.

scholarly journals Qualia Structure in Spanish Prepositional Verbs: When the verb resorts to a preposition

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Zoltan Zato
Keyword(s):  
Generative Grammar ◽  
Generative Model ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Generative Lexicon ◽  
Qualia Structure

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">In generative grammar it is generally assumed that argumental prepositional phrases (PPs) can have two syntactic functions: argument and complement. Contrary to this assumption, I will propose a unified syntactic treatment for all argumental PPs, which I consider more appropriate to account for the main problems they pose. Focusing on Spanish, I will try to explain how the meaning of prepositional verbs is compositionally built by means of a lexical mechanism of coercion. My claim is based on Pustejovsky’s Generative Lexicon theory, a sophisticated lexicist and generative model of combination of words.</span>

scholarly journals L’identification des arguments et la hiérarchisation des marges : critères formels et critères conceptuels

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Michele Prandi
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Relevance Criteria ◽  
Conceptual Distinction ◽  
Conceptual Relations ◽  
The Difference

The distinction between arguments and margins within a simple nuclear sentence is sharp at conceptual level in that it is grounded in explicit relevance criteria: arguments are saturated referential noun phrases that are essential for the integrity of the process; different layers of margins enrich different kinds of processes according to different consistency requirements. If one observes the syntactic structure of linguistic expressions, on the other hand, the same distinction seems to shade into a sort of continuum owing to two orders of factors. First, there is a cleavage between the model sentence, whose main function should be the expression of the process, and the utterances actually documented in texts and corpora, whose structure is shaped by the incommensurate function to adapt the structure of the process to the communicative dynamism of a text. Moreover, within the model sentence itself, the coding regime of arguments and the coding regime of margins shadow into one another: some margins are coded, like arguments, through formal grammatical relations, while some arguments are coded, like margins, directly as conceptual relations through a set of forms of expression motivated by their conceptual content.In spite of these obstacles, the conceptual distinction between arguments and margins and the hierarchy of margins can be identified at the level of model sentence thanks to adequate and differentiated criteria. These criteria are formal where the difference of coding regime draws a sharp formal distinction between arguments and margins, and conceptual and textual where the structure of the forms of expression neutralises the distinction. Conceptual and textual criteria also make the identification of a clear hierarchy of margins possible.

Nominalization and selection in two Mayan languages

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-168
Author(s):  
Jessica Coon ◽  
Justin Royer
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Derivational Morphology ◽  
Internal Argument ◽  
Mayan Languages ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Nominal Arguments

In ‘Nominalization and selection in two Mayan languages’ Coon and Royer investigate nominalization in languages from two subbranches of the Mayan family: Ch’ol and Chuj. At the heart of this work is the tension between semantic requirements of certain roots, and the syntactic structure available to license arguments in different types and sizes of constructions. The fact that roots in Mayan belong to well-defined and diagnosable root classes, combined with the rich inventory of derivational morphology, sheds light on the division of labor between roots and functional heads in governing the appearance of nominal arguments. The authors show that roots belonging to transitive and (unaccusative) intransitive classes in Ch’ol and Chuj always require semantic saturation of an argument slot, but that this is accomplished by different means in the Mayan equivalents of the types of nominalizations examined in Chomsky 1970. They attribute this difference to the variation in the realization of the internal argument to the site of nominalization—specifically, to the presence or absence of functional heads available internal to the nominalization to syntactically license arguments.

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