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Valency
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: This article presented a reconstruction of several valency-changing devices and a system of verb classes for Proto Oceanic, including transitive suffix *-z, transitivising *akin[i], causative prefix *pa[ka]-\ and two valencydecreasing prefixes *m<2 and *ta-.
Abstract: This thesis presents a reconstruction of several valency-changing devices and a system of verb classes for Proto Oceanic. Proto Oceanic is the ancestor language of the Oceanic languages of the Pacific, a subgroup of the Austronesian language family. A characteristic of many Oceanic languages, and indeed Proto Oceanic, is the presence of several valency-changing devices. Those examined in the thesis are: the transitive suffix *-z; transitivising *akin[i]; the causative prefix *pa[ka]-\ and the two valency-decreasing prefixes *m<2 and *ta-. Reflexes of all of these forms are found in many Oceanic languages and all had previously been reconstructed for Proto Oceanic. This thesis uses the previous work on these devices as the starting point for describing them in more detail, in particular with respect to their functions and distributions. Chapters 3 to 7 look in detail at each of the five valency-changing devices, presenting descriptions of their reflexes in a number of modern Oceanic languages and a description of the Proto Oceanic form and its behaviour. The investigation of valency-changing devices led to the study of morphosyntactic classes of verbs as it became clear that the valency-changing devices are best described as part of a system of verb classes since: (i) they had different uses with different types of verbs; and (ii) they occurred with only particular types of verbs. The proposed system of Proto Oceanic verb classes is presented in Chapter 2, along with an examination of verb classes in a number of modem Oceanic languages.
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01 Jan 2000
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TL;DR: Some observations on association schemes with a relation of valency 2 from the representation theory of Bose-Mesner algebras and the basic structure theory are given and Li's conjecture that any finite simple group is a connected 2-DCI-group is proved.
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TL;DR: In this article, a series of ternary aluminide intermetallics with a new structure type were formed from the reaction of gold and rare-earth metals in aluminum flux.
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TL;DR: A partial review of high energy spectroscopic studies of the new superconductors is given in this paper, where the authors summarize the evidence on the ground state electronic configuration of these materials, the "valency" of Cu, the strength of elecrton-electron correlation, and the nature of the hole states which apparently lead to superconductivity.
Abstract: A partial review of high energy spectroscopic studies of the new superconductors is given. We attempt to summarize the evidence on the ground state electronic configuration of these materials, the "valency" of Cu, the strength of elecrton-electron correlation, and the nature of the hole states which apparently lead to superconductivity.
27 citations