Head (linguistics)

About: Head (linguistics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2540 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29023 citations. The topic is also known as: nucleus.

The Definite Article and Possessive Marking in Amharic

Abstract: singular possessive marker. In this paper we would like to account for the left edge effect of the Amharic definite marking as well as the distribution of defi-niteness marking in modified possessive noun phrases. Our suggestion is to promote definiteness from the head of the syntactic left-hand daughter, while, for example, person and number specifications, and also a POSS(essive) feature, are promoted from the head daughter; the latter is in accordance with the more general constraints embodied in the Head Feature Principle of HPSG. Nouns in Amharic may carry affixes to indicate their gender, number, definiteness, and case. The language is at least partially agglutinative. Mor-phemes are suffixed to the noun in the order listed above (see also: Leslau 1995). Nominal modifiers and specifiers may host some of the nominal morphology, leading to patterns of nominal inflection throughout the noun phrase to be described below.

Deconstructing Thinking Like a Lawyer: Analyzing the Cognitive Components of the Analytical Mind

Abstract: “You come in here with a head full of mush and you leave thinking like a lawyer.” Professor Kingsfield’s declaration in the movie The Paper Chase over thirty years ago still rings true as legal educators continue to seek to train students to “think like lawyers.” Despite the popularity of the phrase, legal scholars have not agreed on a detailed conception of what “thinking like a lawyer” means. Does it mean the ability to analyze

The Same-Head Heuristic for Coreference

Abstract: We investigate coreference relationships between NPs with the same head noun. It is relatively common in unsupervised work to assume that such pairs are coreferent-- but this is not always true, especially if realistic mention detection is used. We describe the distribution of non-coreferent same-head pairs in news text, and present an unsupervised generative model which learns not to link some same-head NPs using syntactic features, improving precision.

Head Injury from Antiquity to the Present with Special Reference to Penetrating Head Wounds.

Abstract: 79 animals. Here they present evidence for interneuronal mechanisms within the ven-trobasal thalamus. This provides an anatomical substrate for the numerous excita-tory, inhibitory, and recurrent collateral mechanisms delineated neurophysiologi-cally by D. Purpura, and by T. Frigyesi and R. Schwartz. A grand overview of the role of cerebral cortex in the modulation of input to the medial thalamus at thalamic and at spinal levels is presented by D. Albe-Fessard and her associates. An intensive analysis of corticifugal mechanisms in learned movement (E. V. Evarts), in contact placing (V. E. Amassian and associates), on eye movements (B. Cohen), and upon the ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (J. Massion and L. Rispal-Padel) are presented extensively, as are other studies dealing with cerebellofugal mechanisms, corticotectal projections, and retroflexive visual cortical projections to lateral geniculate body. An overall hypothesis of thalamic function, based upon human pathyphysiologic anatomical analysis is presented by R. Hassler. The work which includes edited discussions, is exemplary in its execution, and will serve as a substantial source for reference, both as to substance and hypothesis, in this complex field. The author has assembled illustrations of surgical implements and trephined skulls from prehistoric cultures, with an interesting discussion of the indications and technique of trephinization developed independently by early civilizations. Armed conflict has taxed man's initiative to develop more efficient methods to produce injury paralleled development of counterbalancing mitigation and preventive measures. The author portrays these developments from antiquity to the present in a concise and readable fashion. A discussion of both high and low velocity missile characteristics assuming importance subsequent to gunpowder introduction to the Western World in 1250 conveys to the reader the complexities of developing materials to prevent or mitigate head injury in warfare. Although falls and direct blows have been the dominant eitology of head trauma from antiquity, in our present age of mechanization, automobile accidents are the leading cause of death from head injury. The author's special interest and active research in the development and function of protective devices for automobile safety, including an inflatable air bag, is a particularly interesting portion of this book. A third section of the monograph is concerned with the development of medical management and surgical considerations of head injury based on the knowledge of cerebral pathophysiology from historic times to present. The significant milestones that have contributed to the decrease in morbidity and mortality in the treatment of head injury are emphasized, with …