Showing papers on "Head (linguistics) published in 1983"

A whack on the side of the head: How to unlock your mind for innovation

Abstract: Author Publisher Copyright Quanity Category A Whack On the Side of the Head: How to Unlock Your Mind For Innovation Roger Von Oech, Ph.D Warner Books 1983 1 Adult Learning Adults As Learners K. Patricia Cross Jossey-Bass 1981 1 Adult Learning Adult Learning and The Internet Number 78, Summer 1998 Brad Cahoon Jossey-Bass 1998 1 Adult Learning Adult Learners in The Academy Lee Bash Anker Publishing 2003 1 Adult Learning All Together Now! A Seriously Fun Collection of Interavtive Training Games and Activities Lorraine L Ukens Jossey-Bass 1999 1 Adult Learning Applying Adult Development Strategies Number 45, Spring 1990 Mark H. Rossman, Maxine E Rossman Jossey-Bass 1990 1 Adult Learning Artistic Ways of Knowing: Expanded Opportunities for Teaching and Learning Randee Lipson Lawrence Jossey-Bass 2005 1 Adult Learning Becoming Adult Learners: Principles and Practices for Effective Development Eleanor Drago-Severson Teachers College Press 2014 1 Adult Learning Can I Change your Mind?: The Craft and Art of Persuasive Writing Lindsay Camp A& C Black-London 207 1 Adult Learning

Aspects of the structure of the noun phrase in modern Greek.

Abstract: This thesis attempts to provide an account of certain aspects of the Noun Phrase in Modern Greek. It is composed of four chapters. In the first chapter (I) the formal apparatus and the devices used, which are those of the recent formulation of the Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG), are presented. In the second chapter (II) phrase structure rules for the items occupying the specifier positions - i.e. prenominal modifiers - are proposed. In particular, the distribution and interaction of articles and expressions of quantification and degree are discussed. Then, the internal structure of Adjective Phrases marked as + or -Q is considered. Finally, the position of adjectives within the noun phrase is examined. It is argued that adjectives appearing after the noun in both definite and indefinite NPs are, indeed, complements, whereas in prehead position they are (attributive) specifiers, but in either case they are restrictive modifiers, therefore they belong to N'. As (posthead) complements they are instances of the phenomenon of so-called 'appositon' - namely they are [a case] complements. In the Appendix the phenomenon of restrictive nominal apposition is viewed with regard to both English and Modern Greek. Thus, while in English apposition falls under the description of attributive (prenominal) modification, as Burton has effectively shown, in modern Greek it is rather a descriptive term for nominal complementation. It is only the 'pseudopartitive' construction in MG that is referred to as 'apposition' and exhibits a case of premodification, in addition to a case of complementation related to the same construction. It is this structural ambiguity of the 'pseudopartitive' construction that is pointed out in chapter three (III), and rules for the two structures corresponding to the two interpretations of this construction - an amount and a consistive one - are proposed. In this chapter the partitive construction and a type of nominal complement marked as [+nominative] are also examined. In the fourth (IV) chapter I concentrate upon adjectival and nominal ('Free') relatives. Dependencies into subject, object, possessive genitive and object of preposition position - in both wh- and pu adjectival and nominal relatives-are taken care of by two general slash elimination metarules (SEM I, SEM II) that are introduced in chapter I. With regard to nominal relatives, it is shown that if they occupy an argument position within the main clause they are headed, the wh-phrase introducing them being their head; nominal relatives that occupy a non-argument position - such as a topic position - are headless, the wh-phrase being in a position parallel to that occupied by the w/i-phrase (pronoun) in ordinary adjectival relatives.

The Nominal Group

Abstract: The nominal group may be defined briefly as a group of words which can act as the subject of a sentence.1 As we noted in the Introduction it is usual to posit that the nominal group in Modern English contains four elements: determiner, modifier, head and qualifier. The head is that part of the group upon which all the other elements depend and is the only obligatory element. The modifier and qualifier are those elements which precede and follow the head respectively and are defined formally by their position in relation to the head. There is theoretically no limit to the number of modifiers and qualifiers each head can carry. The determiner in Modern English precedes the modifier and consists of a small group of words like the articles and possessive and demonstrative pronouns which are mutually exclusive; there can be only one determiner per head in each nominal group. One cannot say in Modern English the his book. Hence the nominal group ‘The beautiful, young girl with the black hair sitting in the corner’ consists of the determiner the, two modifiers beautiful and young, the head girl, and two qualifiers with the black hair and sitting in the corner. It is characteristic of Modern English that whereas modifiers consist usually of single words like beautiful, though they can be modified by an intensifier like very, qualifiers are usually phrases such as with the black hair.

Perception, pretence and reality

Abstract: Two decades ago it was possible for a philosopher of perception, R.J. Hirst (1959:42), to call it a "common story" that all we ever beheld were what is called "sense-data," something immediately sensed that acted as a kind of veil or screen between ourselves and the outer world. It is traceable to Locke's conception of there being "ideas" in the mind which in some way represented the objects we perceive about us. So successful have been the attacks on this outworn theory, which was shown to involve not only bizarre implications such as the body-image that we feel not being the same as our real body, but the more serious philosophical one of solipsism. How could we ever compare the object on the screen to what it represented? In the case of a television screen I can go and look at what is in front of the camera, even see object and screen simultaneously, but I could never do this with an object and an image in the mind. Furthermore, talk of sense-data brought in such "queer logic," so many unexpected ambiguities, that there was a distinct fishiness that could only indicate fallacy somewhere. "How do you count sense-data?" asked W.H.F. Barnes (1944/5: 89-117). "But coloured shapes can be naturally and properly said to be things we actually see!" said J.L. Austin (1962:136). "A person thinking that he can see a representation is like someone thinking he can eat a direct object because he can eat a meal," said G.E.M. Anscombe (1965:158-180). "How can the speckles on a representation of a hen be determinate and indeterminate at the same time?" asked R.M. Chisholm (1942:368-373). "And who is looking at this supposed representation?" asked Gilbert Ryle (1949:213220) "A little man in your head? And does he have eyes in turn, and sense-data in turn?" And most familiar of all, that of Wittgenstein: "How can you talk of red, say, as a 'private object' when you need public criteria for the word in the first place?" (1967:

Numerals as Determiners

Abstract: This paper deals with an explanation of the distributional facts in the prenominal structure Dutch NPs. The discussion will be based on the categorial status of various types of numeral. In English as well as in Dutch, the internal structure of NP’s is quite rigid. The position occupied by the head of the phrase, and the relative positions of the other elements within the NP are severely restricted. Their linear order is strict, and there are very few possibilities of movement in or out of the NP. In the absence of syntactic or semantic restrictions, this paper proposes to adopt an alternative categorial status for numerals that derives support from an analysis of the role of the determiner.

Article setting system

Abstract: PURPOSE:To select a correct article by one-touch, by adopting an article selecting system related to an article generating system by a translating part. CONSTITUTION:In case when a noun phrase is in a translated sentence, all gramatically available article phrases are placed in front of said phrase. Also, a position which is being processed at present is displayed by a cursor, a color display, etc. When an article selecting key is depressed, the cursor proceeds to a position of the head article in the picture. Subsequently, when an A key 5 is depressed, (a) is selected, other articles are erased, and the cursor proceeds automatically to a position of the following article. Subsequently, when a THE key 4 is depressed, ''the'' is selected. Thereafter, said operation is repeated, by which the article is set speedily.