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Raising and control have figured in every comprehensive model of
syntax for forty years. Recent renewed attention to them makes this
collection a timely one. The contributions, representing some of
the most exciting recent work, address many fundamental research
questions. What beside the canonical constructions might be subject
to raising or control analyses? What constructions traditionally
treated as raising or control might not actually be so? What
classes of control must be recognized? How do tense, agreement, or
clausal completeness figure in their distribution? The chapters
address these and other relevant issues, and bring new empirical
data into focus.
According to Platonists, entities such as numbers, sets,
propositions and properties are abstract objects. But abstract
objects lack causal powers and a location in space and time, so how
we could ever come to know of them? Cheyne presents a systematic
and detailed account of this epistemological objection to the
Platonist doctrine that abstract objects exist and can be known.
Since mathematics has such a central role in the acquisition of
scientific knowledge, he concentrates on mathematical Platonism. He
also concentrates on our knowledge of what exists, and argues for a
causal constraint on such existential knowledge. Finally, he
exposes the weaknesses of recent attempts by Platonists to account
for our supposed Platonic knowledge.
Madurese is a major regional language of Indonesia, with some 14
million speakers, mainly on the island of Madura and adjacent parts
of Java, making it the fourth largest language of Indonesia after
Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese. There is no existing
comprehensive descriptive grammar of the language, with existing
studies being either sketches of the whole grammar, or detailed
descriptions of phonology and morphology or some particular topics
within these components of the grammar. There is no competing work
that provides the breadth and depth of coverage of this grammar, in
particular (though not exclusively) with regard to syntax.
The Choctaw language, indigenous to the southeastern United States,
now with its greatest concentrations ofspeakers in Missis sippi,
Oklahoma, and Los Angeles, has in the main escaped the
scrutinyoftheoreticallinguistics.ItisnotthatChoctaw isanintrin
sicallyuninterestinglanguage- aquickglanceataclausewithfive
agreement controllers and a mismatch between the caseofafree
standingnominaland its agreement affix should dispelthat notion.
Rather it is, I think, the question of what we can learn from a
languageinwhichNPsdon'tmovearound,"WHs"don'tfront, and gaps simply
arise from pronominalization. My hope is that the presentvolume,
takentogetherwithagrowingliteraturespurredon by the workofPamMunro
and her students atUCLA, will bring Choctawintothelightofdayand
into the circleoflanguagescon sidered when constructing theories
that define "possible human language." Thepresentstudy,
arevisionofmy 1981dissertation(University ofCalifornia, SanDiego),
focusesfirstandforemostontheChoctaw agreementsystem,
takingthisasthekeytothestructureofChoctaw syntax. The immediate
goal, then, is to provide a unified account ofthestructures and
rules underlyingtheagreement system.Along the way a
rangeofgrammatical phenomena is examined, taken as evidence for
particular structural configurations, and incorporated into
awell-integratedaccountofmorphologicaland syntacticfacts. The
resultsbearon anumber ofcurrent issues, includingthe Un accusative
Hypothesis, the existence of demotions, the nature of antipassive,
disjunctive rule application, universals of causative
constructions, and others.For these reasons Choctawdeserves the
scrutinyoftheoreticians. The data forming the corpus for analysis
represent a variety of Oklahoma Choctaw.They were collected from a
nativespeaker in San Diego between 1978 and 1982 and from various
speakers in Oklahoma during two extended visits to Broken Bow in
1980. I lX PREFACE x
wishtothankthespeakerswhohelpedmebysharingtheirlanguage
andencouragingmystudies.MyworkonChoctawwassupportedin
partbyfundsfrom theNationalScienceFoundation(throughgrant
numberBNS78-17498totheUniversityofCalifornia, SanDiego),
theAmericanPhilosophicalSociety(throughaPhillipsFundgrant),
andtheDepartmentofLinguisticsatUCSD."
As the colonial hegemony of empire fades around the world, the role
of language in ethnic conflict has become increasingly topical, as
have issues concerning the right of speakers to choose and use
their preferred language(s). Such rights are often asserted and
defended in response to their being violated. The importance of
understanding these events and issues, and their relationship to
individual, ethnic, and national identity, is central to research
and debate in a range of fields outside of, as well as within,
linguistics. This book provides a clearly written introduction for
linguists and non-specialists alike, presenting basic facts about
the role of language in the formation of identity and the
preservation of culture. It articulates and explores categories of
conflict and language rights abuses through detailed presentation
of illustrative case studies, and distills from these key
cross-linguistic and cross-cultural generalizations.
As the colonial hegemony of empire fades around the world, the role
of language in ethnic conflict has become increasingly topical, as
have issues concerning the right of speakers to choose and use
their preferred language(s). Such rights are often asserted and
defended in response to their being violated. The importance of
understanding these events and issues, and their relationship to
individual, ethnic, and national identity, is central to research
and debate in a range of fields outside of, as well as within,
linguistics. This book provides a clearly written introduction for
linguists and non-specialists alike, presenting basic facts about
the role of language in the formation of identity and the
preservation of culture. It articulates and explores categories of
conflict and language rights abuses through detailed presentation
of illustrative case studies, and distills from these key
cross-linguistic and cross-cultural generalizations.
The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical
functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through
largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii)
through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken
together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view
of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often
useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and
object properties are distributed among various functional
projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.
The Choctaw language, indigenous to the southeastern United States,
now with its greatest concentrations ofspeakers in Missis sippi,
Oklahoma, and Los Angeles, has in the main escaped the
scrutinyoftheoreticallinguistics.ItisnotthatChoctaw isanintrin
sicallyuninterestinglanguage- aquickglanceataclausewithfive
agreement controllers and a mismatch between the caseofafree
standingnominaland its agreement affix should dispelthat notion.
Rather it is, I think, the question of what we can learn from a
languageinwhichNPsdon'tmovearound,"WHs"don'tfront, and gaps simply
arise from pronominalization. My hope is that the presentvolume,
takentogetherwithagrowingliteraturespurredon by the workofPamMunro
and her students atUCLA, will bring Choctawintothelightofdayand
into the circleoflanguagescon sidered when constructing theories
that define "possible human language." Thepresentstudy,
arevisionofmy 1981dissertation(University ofCalifornia, SanDiego),
focusesfirstandforemostontheChoctaw agreementsystem,
takingthisasthekeytothestructureofChoctaw syntax. The immediate
goal, then, is to provide a unified account ofthestructures and
rules underlyingtheagreement system.Along the way a
rangeofgrammatical phenomena is examined, taken as evidence for
particular structural configurations, and incorporated into
awell-integratedaccountofmorphologicaland syntacticfacts. The
resultsbearon anumber ofcurrent issues, includingthe Un accusative
Hypothesis, the existence of demotions, the nature of antipassive,
disjunctive rule application, universals of causative
constructions, and others.For these reasons Choctawdeserves the
scrutinyoftheoreticians. The data forming the corpus for analysis
represent a variety of Oklahoma Choctaw.They were collected from a
nativespeaker in San Diego between 1978 and 1982 and from various
speakers in Oklahoma during two extended visits to Broken Bow in
1980. I lX PREFACE x
wishtothankthespeakerswhohelpedmebysharingtheirlanguage
andencouragingmystudies.MyworkonChoctawwassupportedin
partbyfundsfrom theNationalScienceFoundation(throughgrant
numberBNS78-17498totheUniversityofCalifornia, SanDiego),
theAmericanPhilosophicalSociety(throughaPhillipsFundgrant),
andtheDepartmentofLinguisticsatUCSD."
Raising and control have figured in every comprehensive model of
syntax for forty years. Recent renewed attention to them makes this
collection a timely one. The contributions, representing some of
the most exciting recent work, address many fundamental research
questions. What beside the canonical constructions might be subject
to raising or control analyses? What constructions traditionally
treated as raising or control might not actually be so? What
classes of control must be recognized? How do tense, agreement, or
clausal completeness figure in their distribution? The chapters
address these and other relevant issues, and bring new empirical
data into focus.
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The Building Networks and Public Safety Communications project has
three components: (1) addressing feasibility of using building
networks for bridging first responder radio communications into
buildings, (2) recommending changes to the SAFECOM Statement of
Requirements that address the role of the building, and (3) a
workshop that addresses current, what works for in-building radio
communications. Radio coverage for emergency response in buildings
is frequently problematic due to the shielding effects of building
structures. Since many public safety incidents occur in buildings,
use of existing building infrastructures to bridge radio
communications is desirable. This report presents research
exploring the potential for using building networks as a
communication bridge for radio communications. Results show that
building information technology (IT) and fire networks could
potentially be used for routing emergency communications with some
changes, while distributed antenna systems are the current
preferred solution. Simulations of emergency responder voice,
video, and data communications routed across building networks is
shown to be feasible using 802.11g access points. In addition to
addressing requirements and feasibility of bridging radio
communications, this report addresses requirements for a building
data interface to public safety networks, and progress towards
enabling public safety user access to building data. Emergency
response scenarios prove useful for interface requirements
development. Recommended changes to the Statement of Requirements
are provided along with results from the High-Rise and
Large/Complex Incident Communications Workshop.
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