LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL SPECIFICITY OF EPISTOLARY ADDRESS (ON THE MATERIAL OF “LETTERS TO OLES GONCHAR” COMPILED BY M. STEPANENKO)

The article is devoted to the study of lexical and grammatical features of epistolary addresses (on the material of “Letters to Oles Honchar” compiled by M. Stepanenko). The address is interpreted as one of the manifestations of human communication needs which serves to establish and maintain speech contact, as well as to express the emotional and evaluative characteristics of the interlocutor. An epistolary address is a word or phrase by which the author of a letter nominates his addressee in the text of a written message to establish contact with him. We processed 895 letters to Oles Honchar, in which 1185 addresses in Ukrainian and about 200 units in other languages had been recorded. Lexical features of addresses represent their belonging to the following semantic groups: addresses-anthroponyms (name, patronymic and surname); traditional etiquette forms (пан, товариш); general addresses (names of persons by generic or gender feature; names of persons by kinship in the indirect sense; names of persons by friendly relations); special addresses (names by profession, type of activity, position, academic titles); occasional addresses. Most often, senders address Oles Honchar by patronymic or by name, using it in full or in short form, and sometimes by surname. The lexical and semantic content of addresses depends on the intention of the speaker, his politeness, knowledge of language etiquette and the peculiarities of the relationship with the writer. In order to strengthen the address, attributive distributors expressed by honorific and emotional-evaluative adjectives аre used. Honorific adjectives (шановний, високошановний, найшанованіший, глибокошановний, вельмишановний, високоповажний, etc.) convey a polite attitude and perform etiquette function. Emotional-evaluative adjectives (дорогий, славний, щирий, незабутній, рідний, любий, коханий, etc.) denote sincerity, friendliness, friendly affection and perform an evaluative function. We reveal a significant proportion of constructions in which adjectives of both groups are used. This causes a change in the tonality of the communicative situation and reduces interpersonal distance. Possessive pronouns мій, наш, which have partially lost the meaning of possessiveness, strengthen the intimacy, cordiality and sincerity of the relationship. Addresses in Russian, Belarusian, Polish and English are described. It is found that the grammatical differentiation of addresses directly depends on lexical and grammatical features (proper or common names and substantivized parts of speech) and morphological means of their expression. It is confirmed that the typical morphological form of addresses is the vocative case of the noun, as well as the homonymous nominative case in letters written during the Soviet period. Violations of morphological norms (different case forms of lexical phrase components, a non-normative form Олесе) and orthographic mistakes in spelling of the writer’s patronymic are revealed. The non-normative form of the nominative case as a means of expressing the address in letters dated 1990–1995 is substantiated. The results of the research show that the most frequent lexeme is Олесю Терентійовичу. Forms Олесь Терентійович and Олесю are less used. Quantitative indicators of addressing forms are summarized in the table. We see the prospect of further scientific research in deepening other vectors of analysis of addresses, in particular in the study of their functional and stylistic potential.

Changes in rat liver fatty acid profile in experimental non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

Introduction. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease in the world. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a clinically progressive morphological form of NAFLD, ranks second in the list of reasons for liver transplantation in the adult population. In the pathogenesis of this disease, metabolism and distribution of free fatty acids (FFA) play an important role. A large number of studies have established that the level of FFA in peripheral blood directly correlates with the severity of NASH, but it is still unclear what effect fluctuations in the profile of fatty acids (FA) in the liver have in steatohepatitis.Aim. Study of changes in the profile of fatty acids in the liver of laboratory animals with experimental non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.Materials and methods. The study was carried out on 17 white outbred male rats, which were randomized into two groups – intact (n = 6) and control (steatohepatitis) (n = 11). Steatohepatitis was modeled by 12-month use of a hypercaloric high-fat diet against the background of hypodynamia. The content of fatty acids in the liver was determined in the reaction of methanolysis and extraction with a hexane mixture of their methyl esters. The LC was separated by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Calibration for quantitative calculation was carried out with deuterated tridecanoic acid. The content of saturated and monounsaturated higher FAs, their aldehydes and hydroxy derivatives, as well as sterols were studied.Results and discussion. A total decrease in the content of FFA in the liver of animals with steatohepatitis was revealed. The most significant decrease occurred mainly in the class of monounsaturated fatty acids and cholesterol. Also, a significant decrease in the activity of Δ9-desaturase, a key enzyme in the synthesis of monounsaturated FAs from their precursor with the same carbon chain length, was revealed, which was manifested by a significant decrease in their amount in the liver. There were no statistically significant changes in the levels of aldehydes and hydroxy acids between the study groups, as well as in the level of sterols (except for cholesterol, the content of which decreased significantly).Conclusion. Thus, in the liver of rats with steatohepatitis caused by a combination of a hypercaloric diet and hypodynamia, statistically significant changes in the profile and concentration of fatty acids were found in comparison with healthy animals. The demonstrated shifts in FA composition may reflect both adaptive and pathological changes in the liver of animals with NAFLD and require further study.

Quoi-sluices in French

Sluicing has traditionally been analyzed as an operation involving wh-movement and deletion (Merchant 2001). French is a language that has both fronted and wh-in situ strategies; on the surface, however, it seems that French sluices do not involve (overt) movement, in spite of this being an available option. For nearly all wh-words, the in situ and moved forms are the same; the exception is que/quoi ‘what’— que is found in fronted wh-questions alone, while quoi is found in situ. In sluicing, only quoi surfaces, suggesting that French may be a challenge for the movement-and-deletion approach (Dagnac 2019). By formalizing an analysis within a late insertion approach to the syntax-morphology interface, I argue that not only do sluices in French involve full structure, but that they involve movement as well. I assume that the wh-word is initially represented in the syntactic derivation as an abstract feature bundle. The morphological form is determined in the mapping of syntax to morphology by locality-dependent Vocabulary Insertion (VI) rules that are sensitive to C. These rules apply only after ellipsis occurs. Following Thoms (2010), I argue that C is targeted in sluicing, and as a result destroys the context that would trigger que. This analysis is able to capture sluicing in French, while explaining the behavior of quoi more generally.

Bed Load Distribution Analysis of Pondo Poboya River to The Hydraulics Flow Parameters

The aim is to know the effect of bedload sediment to river hydraulics parameters. The research was conducted by taking samples in three-part of the river. Each location is taken ten cross-sections with left, middle, and right parts of the river. Bedload sediment is calculated by the grain analysis method. There are several approaches in determining the roughness: Manning, Raudkivi, Subramanya, Meyer, and Muller roughness. From the analysis results, sediment in the form of fine sediment (d ≤ 0.15 mm) located in the middle of the cross-section does not settle due to high velocity. In contrast, in the wet area, the velocity is smaller so that grain material is deposited. The relationship of bedload sediment to the morphological form of the river shows that the middle part has the most material content in grain sediment (d ≤ 0.15 mm). The wet edge has the most content in gravel and sand (d < 6 mm). The Manning equation obtained a minimum roughness of 0.0257 and a maximum coefficient of 0.0365 with an average value of 0.0311. This value is matched with the coefficient of roughness on the Manning table does not differ much, i.e., natural, straight, and meandering channels.

Studies in Canarium urceus (Linné, 1758) Part 4: Canarium (Canarium) orrae (Abbott, 1960) (Gastropoda: Neostromboidae: Strombidae) and a new species from the Northern Territory, Australia

This part of the Canarium (Canarium) urceus (Linné, 1758) after Abbott (1960) revision examines the Australian species of that complex. Currently, there is one recognised species, Canarium (Canarium) orrae (Abbott, 1960), which is divided herein into two species, with the description of Canarium (Canarium) darwinense n. sp. from the Van Diemen Gulf and Darwin surrounds. The C. (C.) darwinense is distinguished from C. (C.) orrae in morphological form. The southern range of C. (C.) orrae is extended to Monkey Mia, Shark Bay. Examples of C. (C.) orrae were also noted from the North Coast of Sumbawa, Indonesia, and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. While there is a geographic break in the distribution of C. (C.) orrae creating two populations, Western Australian and Gulf of Carpentaria, populations from these two ranges could not be distinguished using morphology. Future research will likely show genetic differences as a consequence of drift caused by isolation, thus leading to the potential recognition of two cryptic subspecies.

The semantics of conversion nouns and -ing nominalizations: A quantitative and theoretical perspective

This paper addresses a fundamental problem of derivational morphology: which meanings are possible for the words of a given morphological category, which forms can be chosen to express a given meaning, and what is the role of the base in these mappings of form and meaning? In a broad empirical study we examine the extent to which two types of nominalizations in English – conversion nouns and -ing nominalizations – can express either eventive or referential readings, can be quantified as either count or mass, and can be based on verbs of particular aspectual classes (state, activity, accomplishment, achievement, semelfactive). Past literature (for example, Grimshaw 1990 Brinton 1995, 1998 Borer 2013) has suggested an association between conversion nominalization, count quantification, and referential reading on the one hand, and between -ing nominalization, mass quantification and eventive reading on the other. Using a subset of the data reported in Andreou & Lieber (2020), we give statistical evidence that the relationship between morphological form, type of quantification, and aspectual class of base verb is neither categorical, as the literature suggests, nor completely free, but rather is probabilistic. We provide both a univariate analysis and a multivariate analysis (using conditional inference trees) that show that the relationship among the variables of morphological form, eventivity, quantification and aspectual class of base is complex. Tendencies sometimes go in the direction suggested by past literature (e.g. -ing forms tend to be eventive), but sometimes contradict past predictions (conversion also tends to be eventive). We also document that an important role is played by the specific verb underlying the nominalization rather than the aspectual class of verb. Finally, we consider what the pattern of polysemy that we uncover suggests with respect to theoretical modeling, looking at syntactic models (Distributed Morphology), lexical semantic models (the Lexical Semantic Framework), Analogical Models, and Distributional Semantics.

Roman sculptural portrait and votive portrait of the Roman republic time (preliminary comparative data on composite portraits)

The materials for the composite portraits were images from electronic antique collections of museums, image banks and catalogs. To obtain visual images of the studied groups, the composite portrait method was used in a digital program. Results and discussion. Unlike the roman sculptural portrait of the 1st century BC, which has a specific purpose and real prototypes, prototypes of votive terracotta heads of the 3rd – 1st centuries BC can be both real people and typified model-forms. The main differences between the composite roman portraits from the etruscan-italic votives relate to the orbital part of the face, the nose width and the upper lip hight. The composite images of the roman votives of Latium are similar to the composite roman sculptural portrait in the nose width. The morphological differences between the votive portrait and the Roman republican sculptural portrait can be a reflection of really different anthropological types, which does not except the presence of the cumulative (Greeks, Etruscans, Latins) canon of morphological form in votive portraits. Conclusion. The early Roman portrait, represented by two distinctive forms of portraiture, reveals different anthropological types. The extent to which a possible morphological canon of votive heads gifts is influenced by Greek prototypes can be determined by comparison with a composite Greek portrait.

STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF THE PANCREAS IN PATIENTS WITH VARIOUS CLINICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL FORMS OF CHRONIC PANCREATITIS

The article presents the results of our own studies of structural changes in the pancreas according to computed tomography data in patients with various clinical and morphological forms of the disease. It was shown that the identification of structural changes in the pancreatic parenchyma using computed tomography with contrast (calcifications and calcifications, pancreatic cysts, fibrosis, expansion of pancreatic ducts) is a reliable confirmation of the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis and allows to determine clinical and morphological form of the disease. Severe structural changes in the pancreatic parenchyma were found in 71.8% of the examined patients, in 18.5% of patients - moderate, in 8.7% - mild.

MEDIA ALTERNATIF PERTUMBUHAN Staphylococcus aureus DARI BIJI DURIAN (Durio Zibethinus murr)

Media that is often used for bacterial growth is Nutrient agar. The high price incurred for the manufacture of instant media becomes a constraint so that innovation is needed that can reduce the cost of expenditure that is looking for alternative media from materials that are easily available. One of the natural ingredients that have a source of nutrients that can be used for bacterial growth of durian seeds that have a high carbohydrate content as a source of carbon. The objective of this research was to know the growth of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria on alternative medium of durian seed as substitution media of Nutrient agar. This research is laboratory experimental research, the sample used is durian seed with three concentrations of 200 g, 300 g, 400 g. The parameters observed were calculating total plate number and morphological form of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria growth. The results showed that the highest population on medium durian medium was the concentration of 200 g as much as 5.7 x 10-4 cfu and the lowest population at the concentration of 400 g was 3.5 x 10-3 cfu. While the population on the media Nutrient agar that is 7.7 x 10-6 cfu. Based on morphological observation of bacterial growth on durian seed medium, round shape, size 0.1 cm, white milk color, smooth surface, and convex elevation. The conclusion of this research is the growth of Staphylococcus aureus on alternative medium of durian seeds can be used as substitution media of Nutrient agar.