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The Old Manse Hotel is a delightful English Country Hotel and Restaurant overlooking the River Windrush, which flows gently through the centre of this picture post card Cotswold village in the centre of Bourton on the Water: The Old Manse Hotel was originally built for the local Baptist pastor in 1748 and encompasses plenty of traditional Cotswold charm, making it the ideal retreat at any time of year. However you choose to spend your break at The Old Manse Hotel exploring this historic area of outstanding natural beauty or strolling around the quaint little village of Bourton on the Water with its interesting selection of shops and attractions you will remember the inviting atmosphere, mouth-watering food, cosy rooms and unique relaxed style of hospitality, which makes the hotel a favourite with locals, ramblers and visitors alike.
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The Conductr Ableton Live modules are specifically designed to control your Ableton desktop software through a unique, 100% mobile-oriented user experience: no nested menus, no tiny knobs. They are fast and user-friendly. And you can even perform without looking at the iPad using the Gestural Mode. Conductr's current version features five different Ableton Live control modules: Master, Clips, Mixer, User Modules (including the XY-4D pads) and the Claydr MIDI Keyboard. All of them are available for free as a trial version. You can in-app purchase those you like the most or the full pack.
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Points of convergence between functional and formal approaches to syntactic analysis
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1 Points of convergence between functional and formal approaches to syntactic analysis Tavs Bjerre 1, Eva Engels 2, Henrik Jørgensen 1 & Sten Vikner 1 ( 1 University of Aarhus & 2 University of Oslo) 1. Introduction Theoretical and empirical linguistics Radicalism within the formal and the functional approaches Clausal architecture in the formal and functional approaches Diderichsen's fields and slots Generative tree structures Points of convergence between the formal and functional approaches Topological slots and their equvalents in the tree structure Topological fields and their equvalents in the tree structure Movement The position of unstressed object pronouns The position of the finite verb in main and embedded clauses The initial position in main clauses Conclusion Appendix. Constructed or elicited examples as data References Introduction The aim of this paper 1 is to discuss different approaches to linguistic theory and their relation to empirical issues in syntactic analysis. It is based on our work within a project on object positions carried out at the University of Aarhus The purpose of the project was to combine and compare what is usually labelled formal and functional approaches to linguistics. Our general experience from the project is that the two approaches, in spite of a number of differences, have a high number of fundamental assumptions in common, and that it is therefore not only possible but also fruitful to approach the same problems and phenomena 1 We would like to thank Maia Andréasson, Ken Ramshøj Christensen, Karen Thagaard Hagedorn, Johannes Kizach, Anne Kjeldahl, Carl Vikner, Johanna Wood, and the audience at the 2 nd NLVN (Nordic Language Variation Network) Symposium and Ph.D. Course, "Dialogue between paradigms", at the University of Copenhagen (Schæffergården, Jægersborg, Denmark) in October The research reported here was supported by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities (Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation) as part of the Project Object positions - comparative syntax in a cross-theoretical perspective (Grant , principal investigators: Sten Vikner and Henrik Jørgensen). 1
2 from the two perspectives. As we shall try to show, a great deal of compatibility may be found between the two approaches, in the sense that the conclusions reached by one side by no means exclude what the other side claims concerning the same phenomenon. In sections 2 and 3, we shall first be concerned with the common ground for the formal and functional approaches. In section 4 we discuss the two approaches in detail, in section 4.1 a typical functional analysis of clause structure and in 4.2 a typical formal one, before we present the points of convergence between the analyses in section 5. In section 6 and the appendix, we discuss some more related ideas, viz. syntactic movement in section 6 and the status of constructed examples in the appendix. Section 7 is the conclusion. 2. Theoretical and empirical linguistics The way we see it, both formal and functional approaches completely agree with the following dictum from Bourdieu (1988: ) 2 : (1) Theory without empirical research is empty, empirical research without theory is blind i.e. that linguistic theory needs empirical support and linguistic data need theoretical interpretation. The latter of these two points is made more forcefully by Neil Smith (1989:32): (2) Any attempt to provide explanations presupposes a theory. The difference between socalled theory-neutral and theoretically based explanations is not really one between the presence and absence of an appeal to theory, but a difference in the sophistication and depth of the two theories involved. The two approaches also agree that the optimal theoretical hypothesis is the one that by means of the fewest auxiliary assumptions ("the lowest cost") yields the highest number of further testable predictions ("the highest returns"), cf. e.g. the "empirical principle" of Hjelmslev (1943:11). The formal and the functional approaches only start to disagree when it comes to deciding whether the higher returns given by hypothesis A over other hypotheses B or C justify the higher costs (also e.g. in terms of abstractness) that hypothesis A might have compared to its competitors. An objection against rather abstract approaches, which has been raised e.g. against formal approaches such as generative linguistics is that the formal approaches are far too specific and furthermore hampered by being a priori. But the claim against an a priori 2 Bourdieu's formulation here is a paraphrase of Kant (1929:93): Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. [...] The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise. But that is no reason for confounding the contribution of either with that of the other; rather it is a strong reason for carefully separating and distinguishing the one from the other. 2
3 approach is, from a philosophical point of view, untenable. (3) About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; [... ] at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service. (Charles Darwin in a letter to Henry Fawcett , cited e.g. in Gould 1992 and in Shermer 2001) (4) Bien loin que l objet précède le point de vue, on dirait que c est le point de vue qui crée l objet, et d allieurs rien ne nous dit d avance que l une de ces manières de considérer le fait en question soit antérieure ou supérieure aux autres. Ferdinand de Saussure (1972:23) [Far from the claim that the object has priority over the approach, one could say that the point of view creates the object, and by the way nothing guarantees us in advance that one method of approaching the facts in question is more fundamental or better than any other.] No systemic approach to linguistics can avoid a priori concepts completely, and hence the claim that a priori concepts are necessarily invalid would seem to belong to an out-dated version of positivism. The whole conception of the clause consisting of phrases as found in traditional grammar is as much a priori as any generative model. 3. Radicalism within the formal and the functional approaches Often thought of as an across-the board-opposition in linguistics, the distinction between formal and functional approaches actually covers many different aspects worth considering separately. 3 Both formal and functional approaches are concerned with linguistic form, e.g. how a word is pronounced, what it means, or where it occurs in the sentence. Formal linguistics is primarily interested in the linguistic form itself, i.e. in the internal structures of language. Functional linguistics is primarily interested in the content and the communicative function that a linguistic expression has in the world outside language, i.e. in the connection between language and external factors. There are, however, numerous intermediate positions. The main feature distinguishing the different versions of each approach is how "radical" it is. Radical formal linguists assume content and communicative function to be of no interest whatsoever, whereas radical functional linguists take content and communicative function to be absolutely essential for the 3 For a discussion of a linguistic tool which is seen by some as being particular to formal linguistics, namely that of constructed or elicited examples, see the appendix. 3
4 distinctions made in the actual analysis (cf. Newmeyer 1998:17). Proponents of the non-radical versions of the two approaches are still able to interact and indeed learn from one another. This is witnessed e.g. by the increasing interest on the part of formal linguists in discourse phenomena (e.g. Rizzi 1997, Newmeyer 1998, Platzack 2001a,b). In fact, one might interpret the situation as a state of complementarity rather than as a state of competition. The observations that lead to the recognition of the formal levels, find their interpretation in the functional domains. The functional domains on their side can only be deemed relevant for the investigation if they find a formal expression, otherwise they must be considered irrelevant. In this sense the rivalry between the two approaches makes little sense. Furthermore, certain aspects of the two approaches are very closely related, even if sometimes the conclusions drawn are interpreted in quite different ways. One of these aspects is the underlying assumption that language is a system. System in this context is not to be taken in the Saussurean way, considering language to be a superindividual phenomenon. Instead, both the formal and the functional approaches agree on the basic assumption that language is situated in the mind, and that it interacts with the cognitive non-linguistic apparatus in the mind. In other words, both formal and functional linguists would seem to agree that investigation into cognitive and psychological features of the brain is crucial to an understanding of linguistic phenomena. This constitutes what we might call the Chomskyan heritage in modern linguistics. Chomsky s conception of language as a feature of the mind has become a conditio sine qua non for linguistic analysis, e.g. in the way that almost all linguists find the distinction between competence and performance to be a useful tool. From the conception of language as systemic follows another source of convergence, namely the need to investigate through systemic approaches. Classic formal tests such as commutation, substitution, conjunction, and deletion cannot be claimed as the exclusive property of either the formal or the functional approach alone. While such discovery procedures may at first glance seem more in line with the formal approach, both approaches actually need them and both approaches also make use of them. It should be remembered that functional linguists need to identify formal distinctions in order to postulate the functional superstructure. 4. Clausal architecture in the formal and functional approaches So far, we have set out similarities between formal and functional approaches on a general, meta-theoretical level. We now want to continue on a more concrete level, with a comparison between a typical functional analysis of Danish clause structure in section 4.1 and a typical formal one in section 4.2. As the typical functional analysis we have chosen the analysis most frequently employed by functional linguists in Scandinavia, namely the sentence model of Paul Diderichsen (1936, 1941, 1946, 1964). Even though this particular model may not be too well-known outside Scandinavia, it contains enough essential functional features to make it an 4
5 interesting representative for functional linguistics. As the typical formal analysis we have chosen an analysis very frequently employed by formal linguists, namely an analysis whose main features are common to the principles and parameters framework (Chomsky 1986) and the minimalist programme (Chomsky 1995). 4.1 Diderichsen's fields and slots In Diderichsen's (1946) so-called topological approach, two levels are postulated in the analysis of the clause: a field level and a slot level. The slots may be defined in different ways, but in general they are tied to certain phrase concepts and their definitions (see Jørgensen, to appear). In Diderichsen s original approach, the slots were defined by the morphological material they contained. Thus one slot would contain the finite verb, another would contain a noun phrase in nominative etc. (see Diderichsen 1964:371). In certain cases, slots could encompass many different elements, e.g. the adverbial slots. Slots may encompass constructions of different kinds, e.g. relative clauses may be contained in nominal slots. The slots are determined by the main verb carrying the valency and the constructions attaching directly to it, either through valency or through adverbial modification. Within Diderichsen s line of thinking, constituents are shown to be justified mainly by the method of isolation in the front position, i.e. a word sequence is a constituent if it can precede the finite verb in a Danish main clause. Thus (5a,b) show den blå bil and den røde bil to be constituents, whereas (5c) does not show that bil kørt is a constituent: (5) a. Den blå bil er kørt ind i den røde bil The blue car has driven in to the red car b. Den røde bil er den blå bil kørt ind i The red car has the blue car driven in to c. *Bil kørt er den blå ind i den røde bil Car driven has the blue in to the red car Apart from this relatively formal approach, we find little to motivate the organisation of constituents. Diderichsen hesitated to include relational phenomena (valency, subjects and objects) in his syntactic universe. In his last theoretical approach (Diderichsen 1964), he tried not quite successfully to argue for the choice of nominal slots on the basis of case, an approach that collapsed due to the complicated conditions on pronominal case in Danish. 4 Usually the criteria used to define such slots were of two kinds. One criterion was that at a certain level of analysis, certain phrases were considered equal, e.g. all final adverbs, and were therefore bundled into one and the same slot. Another criterion was what we might now 4 See Jørgensen (2000c: 53-90, ), for a discussion of the complications of case form distribution in Danish, and how relational facts may be incorporated into the sentence model. 5
6 call scrambling: If two elements could exchange positions, they would belong to the same slot. These criteria, however, must be used with care. Consider the medial adverbs. From a part-of-speech point of view, medial adverbs are defined as a group and may be confined to one slot. If scrambling, however, were the criterion, strict ordering rules might be observed between several minor groups of medial adverbs, a fact that could be used to postulate more than 20 different medial adverbial slots, each of them having only a very restricted number of tenants and hence only present in very few cases. 5 The field level on the other hand is an overall level of organisation. Diderichsen s original approach used the verbal slots as boundaries for the fields. A Danish main clause was seen as split up into three fields, (6a): one before the finite verb slot (v), one starting with the same finite verb slot, and one starting with the infinite verb slot (V). A somewhat different but similar analysis was given for an embedded clause, (6b). 6 (6) a. Main clause: Foundation field Nexus field (Central field) Content field F v n a V N A Saa har han vist glemt Galocherne her Then has he probably forgotten the galoshes here b. Embedded clause: Conjunctional field Nexus field (Central field) Content field Diderichsen (1946:162) k n a v V N A... fordi han vist har glemt Galocherne her... because he probably har forgotten the galoshes here cf. Diderichsen (1946:186) 5 The ordering rules of the medial adverbs were described in Mikkelsen (1911: ). See also Cinque (1999:77-106) and Nilsen (1997). 6 Abbreviations and Danish terminology used in (6) (cf. Diderichsen 1946, 1964): F foundation ( topic, theme) "fundament" (1946:190) v, V verbal "verbal" (1946:169) n, N nominal "nominal" (1946:169, 1964:369) a, A adverbial "adverbial" (1946:179) k conjunction "konjunktional" (1946:183) 6
7 These two models have been very influential, as can be seen from the many treatments that are based on them. The main clause model and embedded clause model above form the basis of the analyses in Hansen (1977:44, 72-74), Heltoft (1986a), Allan et al. (1995: ), Jørgensen (2000b:63-78), Togeby (2003:56, 72, 97-99) and Hansen & Heltoft (2003: ), among others. As opposed to the slot level, the field level is definitely not a matter of constituency, as argued in Bjerre (forthcoming), where the field level of the Diderichsen model is discarded for this very reason. As may be deduced from the original names in Diderichsen s papers, the intention behind these fields was to define special areas of the clause where certain morphemes with particular functions in the semantic superstructure find their place. This fits well with the semantic descriptions he gave. Heltoft (1986a,b) and, following him, Jørgensen (1993, 2000c: 86-89) have suggested a different layout of the fields: A core field encompassing roughly everything that directly depends on the main verb (including the subject), and a frame field containing elements that fit the sentence into its textual and pragmatic context. To the right of the core field, a localisation field may be added, which however is not present in all versions. One version of this model looks as follows, again with the main clause version first, and then the embedded clause version: 7 7 Abbreviations and Danish terminology used in (7), cf. Hansen & Heltoft (2003: ) frame field "rammefelt" core field "kernefelt" localisation field "lokaliseringsfelt" F foundation field (see below) "fundamentfelt" R reality field "realitetsfelt" subject "subjekt" content field "indholdsfelt" X [anything] V f finite verb "finit verbum" S subject "subjekt" SA sentential adverbial "sætningsadverbial" V i non-finite verb (although in (7b), V i contains "infinit verbum" the finite verb, cf. (16) further below) DO direct object "direkte objekt" P (non-temporal) predicate "prædikativer" BA bound adverbials "bundne adverbialer" TSA time and place adverbials "tids- og stedsadverbialer" K conjunction "konjunktion" The term fundamentfelt (approximately. 'foundation field') is in principle a rhetorical term, meant to signify a position in the Danish sentence that transmits the rhetorical clue of the sentence ( topic, theme). It is defined formally as the position in front of the main verb in 7
8 (7) a. Main clause: Frame field Core field F R Subject Content field Localisation field X V f S SA V i DO P BA TSA måske har de først sendt brevet ud (-) i går maybe have they first sent letter-the out yesterday hun har (-) (-) gjort det færdigt i hånden (-) she has done it finished by hand (adapted from Hansen & Heltoft 2003:172) b. Embedded clause: Frame field Core field R Subject Content field Localisation field K S SA V i DO P BA TSA hvis de først har sendt det ud (-) i går if they first have sent it out yesterday fordi hun (-) har gjort det færdigt i hånden (-) because she has done it finished by hand (adapted from Hansen & Heltoft 2003:173) The terms here relate to a conception of the sentence in which the area around the subordinating conjunction (and in the main clause, around the finite verb) is seen as representative of the semantic conditions framing the sentence in the context and the rest of the sentence is seen as a core around which the local semantic content is structured. This bipartite semantic conception is comparable to the semiotic approach of A.-J. Greimas, splitting meaning into the énonciation, the local pragmatic situational meaning, and énoncé, the non-situational meaning which may be seen as transferable to other situations. The localisation field is in between these two inasmuch as localisation is part of both sectors, énonciation and énoncé alike (cf. Greimas 1966, Greimas & Courtés 1979, and Togeby 2003:10). Regardless of how they are defined exactly, the fields do not represent syntactic constituents in a strict application of Diderichsen s model, as they link up with semantic and main clauses. In the syntax of Danish, this position is the only position that is open to different types of syntactic phrases. 8
9 functional essentials rather than with distributional facts. Neither of the two field structures (as opposed to slot structures) reflects strict distributional facts about a Danish sentence, in the sense that the nexus field cannot be shown to be a constituent by means of the classic tests such as commutation, substitution, conjunction, and deletion mentioned in section 3 above. Notice that it is nevertheless possible to relate the Diderichsen approach to formal generative approaches relatively closely, cf. section 5.1 below. Even though the division into fields is thus to a considerable extent based on semantic and functional considerations, sometimes the distributional facts have to take priority. To take just one example, the Diderichsen model puts the subject in the middle field slot where it belongs as far as the sequence of the words in the clause is concerned, even if this does not agree too well with the semantic and functional considerations. Following semantic and functional considerations, the subject would have to have a position within the content field (as it is closely related to the main verb, just like the object is). However, as no actual subjects occur in such a position, the Diderichsen model has to live with the fact that the subject occurs within one field (the nexus field) although it at least in some sense ought to be part of a different field (the content field). Diderichsen (1941:21, 35-36) links this to a diachronic development of subjecthood from what was originally that of nominativus verbi (the nominative of the verb), i.e. closely attached to the verbal stem and hence connected with the content side, towards the present state, where the subject is part of the actualisation of the meaning and therefore is part of the nexus. Even if the idea of such a diachronic development may not be tenable, the double nature of subjecthood is described well in this way Generative tree structures In a generative analysis, syntactic constituents all have the same basic structure, namely one shown in (8), often referred to as "X-bar structure": (8) XP YP X' specifier X ZP head complement There are three projection levels in (8): (9) XP = phrase / the maximal projection of X 8 Notice the parallel with the "VP-internal subject hypothesis" in recent generative theory where the subject is taken to start out from the specifier position of VP and move from there into the specifier position of IP (cf. Haegeman 2006: and references therein). For reasons of exposition, this movement has been left out of (13) and (15) below. 9
10 X' = X-bar / the intermediate projection of X X = head / the minimal projection of X (= e.g. a word or an even smaller unit) Saying that XP and X' are projections of X expresses the idea that these constituents are built up around X, such that i.e. [ PP across the hall] is built around [ P across]. X (and also Y, Z, and W) in (8), (9), and (11) may stand for one of the following categories: (10) lexical categories (word classes) "functional" categories N (noun) C ("complementiser" V (verb) = subordinating conjunction) P (preposition) I (inflection) Adj (adjective) D (determiner) 9 Adv (adverb) etc. A head is always the head of its own phrase (its own maximal projection), and all maximal projections have a head (are endocentric). Inside a phrase, there is also room for two other phrases, namely in the specifier position and in the complement position. The position of the so-called specifier position is normally considered to be fixed, i.e. it is taken to always be the left daughter of XP. The sequence of the head and the complement may on the other hand vary, depending on the language. Both heads and phrases (minimal and maximal projections) may move. Heads may only move into other head positions, and phrases may only move into other phrase positions. X-bar constituents (intermediate projections) may not move at all. Both heads and phrases may be adjoined to other constituents. Heads may only adjoin to other heads, and phrases may only adjoin to other phrases. X-bar constituents may not be adjoined at all. Adjunction takes the following form, where the adjoined constituent, WP/W, may be adjoined either to the left, as shown, or to the right of the XP/X that it modifies: (11) a. XP b. X WP XP W X adjoined position adjoined position In a somewhat simplified generative analysis, the structure of a sentence (irrespective of whether it is a main or an embedded clause) is as follows: 9 A determiner such as den the is here seen as the head (D ) of the Determiner Phrase (DP) den blå bil the blue car. The complement of D is the NP blå bil blue car, and the head (N ) of this NP is bil car. 10
11 (12) A clause is a CP, the complement of its head (= C ) is an IP, and the complement of the IP's head (= I ) is a VP For a sentence with no auxiliary verb and with a (mono-)transitive main verb the structure looks as follows for both a main and an embedded clause: (13) a. CP AdvP C' C IP DP I' I VP DP V' V DP b. Måske polerer han bilen Maybe polishes he car-the c.... hvis han polerer bilen... if he polishes car-the (where movement has taken place in (b), of the finite verb polerer, from V to C, cf. section 6.2 below.) Also in the generative analysis, there are tests for constituency, e.g. substitution tests or movement tests (the latter being a version of the commutation test). The underlying idea is that if two or more words (e.g. the blue car) may undergo substitution, (14b), or movement (14c) together, then they form a constituent, whereas if two or more words (polished the blue) cannot be substituted by anything, (14d), or cannot be moved, (14e), then one possible reason may be that they do not form a constituent: 11
12 (14) a. Har hun poleret den blå bil? Has she polished the blue car? b. Har hun poleret den? Has she polished it? c. Den blå bil har hun poleret. The blue car has she polished d. * Har hun xxxxx bil? Has she xxxxx car? e. *Poleret den blå har hun bil. Polished the blue has she car (The asterisks in front of (14d,e) signal that these two examples are not well-formed. xxxxx in (14d) signals that no pronoun (or other proform) exists that can substitute for the string poleret den blå when bil is present in the clause but not included in the substitution.) 5. Points of convergence between the formal and functional approaches 5.1 Topological slots and their equvalents in the tree structure As we said above, although there are a number of differences between the two approaches to linguistic analysis, there are also some points of convergence. One such point (even if the convergence is only partial) has to do with the slots in the Diderichsen analysis and what they correspond to in the generative analysis. The generative structure in (15a) below corresponds to the basic generative structure in (13) above, with the addition that adverbials (and other adjuncts) may be adjoined both on the left side and on the right side of a VP. In (15a), the adverbial again is adjoined to the right of the VP has polished the car with steel wool. The tree structure in (15a) can be directly compared to the simplified Diderichsen models of constituent order in modern Danish as illustrated in (15b) for main clauses and in (15c) for embedded clauses, cf. (6) and (7) above (and references there): 12
13 (15) a. CP XP C' C IP DP I' I VP AdvP VP DP V' V VP VP AdvP DP V' V DP b. F Nexus field Content field F v n a V N A Nu har han igen poleret bilen med ståluld Now has he again polished car-the with steel wool c. Conj. f. Nexus field Content field k n a v V N A om han igen har poleret bilen med ståluld if he again has polished car-the with steel wool It is perhaps indicative of this convergence between formal and functional analysis that the first person to suggest the correspondence shown in (15b,c) between Diderichsen's analysis of Danish main clauses and Diderichsen's analysis of Danish embedded clauses was a generative syntactician, Christer Platzack (1985:71, fn 5). It is also interesting to note that this suggestion was in turn taken up by the functional syntactician Lars Heltoft (1986a:108), cf. also Hansen & Heltoft (2003), as shown in (7) above. As may be seen in (15a,b,c), the slots in the Diderichsen analysis have directly 13
14 corresponding positions in the generative tree structure. The following list shows where either approach should be able to understand and build on insights gained in the other approach: (16) Diderichsen (1946), cf. (6a,b) Tree structures, cf. (13) & (15) a. F (foundation field) = CP-spec b. v (finite verb = k (subordinating = C position in conjunction main clauses) position in embedded clauses) c. n (subject position) = IP-spec d. a (medial adverbial position) = position left-adjoined to VP e. v (finite verb position in = V (the highest V in the embedded clauses) embedded clause) f. V (non-finite verb position) = V (NB: only one V per clause) (NB: only one verb per V ) g. N (object position) = DP-position which is the complement of V (if V is monotransitive) h. A (final adverbial position) = position right-adjoined to VP Excursus: One difference between the approaches is that if there are two or more non-finite verbs in a clause, the Diderichsen analysis takes them to make up one constituent, namely V, (ia), whereas in the tree structure this is not the case, (ib): (i) a.... at han ikke [ v kan] [ V have mødt] [ N den nye minister] personligt. b.... at han ikke [ V kan] [ V have] [ V mødt] [ DP den nye minister] personligt.... that he not can have met the new minister personally The two approaches agree that den and nye and minister (i.e. the direct object) form a constituent, as supported by the observation that they can occur together in other positions in the clause: (ii) [Den nye minister] kan han ikke have mødt personligt. The new minister can he not have met personally 14
15 Have and mødt (i.e. the two non-finite verbs), however, do not occur together in other positions in the clause, and so whether they make up a constituent or not is an open question. The Diderichsen analysis takes them to occupy one and the same slot, (ia), because they occur to the right of one established constituent (the finite verb) and to the left of another established constituent (the object). In the tree structure analysis, (ib), however, it is seen as crucial that there is a constituent that consists of only one of the non-finite verbs (together with the object and the adverbial): (iii) [Mødt den nye minister personligt] kan han ikke have, men han kan måske godt have talt i telefon med hende. Met the new minister personally he cannot have but he can perhaps well have talked in telephone with her The point here is that if the two non-finite verbs together made up a constituent, then other constituents (e.g. the initial constituent in square brackets in (iii)) should contain either all of this constituent or no part of it (i.e. it should contain either both non-finite verbs or none of them). Since this is not the case, because the bracketed constituent in (iii) contains one but not the other non-finite verb, the conclusion in the generative analysis has to be that the two nonfinite verbs do not make up a constituent (as noted in e.g. Vikner 1999a:87 and Bjerre 2007). It is not a particularly constructive line of inquiry to debate which model makes most sense from a scientific point of view. The generative model might very well fall victim to Occam s razor if the only task for syntactic theory should be to account for the syntax of Danish, as it assumes many more positions than are needed to account for the actual items of Danish syntax. In this sense a sentence model of the Diderichsen type may be sufficient to account for Danish syntax. As has been demonstrated from time to time (Askedal 1986, Bleken 1971, Bruaas 1970, Jørgensen 2000c, Jörgensen & Loman 1970, Lindberg 1973, Platzack 1985, Thorell 1973, and many others), this type of model is easily adapted to the other Mainland Scandinavian languages. There is furthermore a comparable topological tradition in German and Dutch linguistics (cf. e.g. Wöllstein-Leisten et al. 1997:53-75, Shannon 2000:146, and references therein), but there are very few topological for any other languages. It would seem that topological approaches are particularly likely to be suggested for languages that are V2, cf. also that when topological approaches have been suggested to e.g. English or French, they have mainly been suggested by linguists who want to compare them to a V2-language, e.g. Diderichsen (1953), Hartvigson (1969), Herslund (2006). Linear slot models (i.e. topological models) cannot make any larger contributions to direct comparison with e.g. Slavic languages with a relatively free phrase ordering, as emphasized in Askedal (1986:33-34). Only if the ordering rules underlying the model are taken to be reflections of e.g. case and information structure, can a sentence model of the 15
16 Diderichsen type form the basis of comparison with more distant languages. This is a point where e.g. a generative model is more likely to be successful, given that the structures suggested for the analysis have a generality that makes it possible for them to encompass languages of a widely differing nature. Take as an example the I -position, which is one of the positions in the generative tree (15a) that are always empty in Danish, and which would therefore seem to be superfluous. However, in French, in Icelandic and in older stages of Danish, finite verbs occur in I, and this position in the structure can therefore be a starting point for saying something principled about differences between languages (as e.g. in Vikner 1997, 1999b, 2005a). When it comes to the topological models, different languages need different (pairs of) models in the Diderichsen view (one pair for Danish/Swedish/Norwegian as in (15b,c), another pair for old Danish/Icelandic, cf. Diderichsen 1941:89, and a completely different model for e.g. German, cf. e.g. Wöllstein-Leisten et al. 1997:53-75, etc.). Such an approach would therefore not give any principled reason why Danish does not follow the model for German or why German does not follow the Danish one. This could be seen as the price paid by the Diderichsen model(s) for not containing any positions which are never filled Topological fields and their equvalents in the tree structure Another point of convergence concerns the Diderichsen fields and what they correspond to in the generative tree. The main parts of the generative structure, i.e. CP, IP and VP, can be seen as convergent with commonly accepted domains in functional analyses of clause structure. The layered structure of e.g. Harder (2005: ) is found in "classic" Dutch functional grammar (Dik 1997:67, here cited from Christensen 2005:51), where each level takes in more and more constituents of the clause, and where stands for "grammatical operators" and for "lexical satellites" (e.g. adverbials): 10 The other two positions in the generative tree (15a) that have no equivalents in the Diderichsen analysis in (15b,c) are the specifier positions in the two VPs. As mentioned in footnote 8 above, a number of formal analyses take these positions to have contained the subject at earlier stages of the derivation. 16
17 (17) Level 4: clause (speech act) 4: briefly" 4: illocutionary force (declarative, interrogative, imperative) Level 3: proposition (possible fact) 3: in my opinion" 3: subjective modality (evaluation, attitude) Level 2: extended predication (state of affairs) 2: time, location, space 2: tense, objective modality (time, space, cognition) Level 1: core predication (property or relation) 1: manner, speed, instrument, direction, beneficiary 1: (im)perfective aspect, (non-)progressive aspect (Subj, Obj) Level 0: nuclear predication Predicate and terms (arguments) The same layered structure is also found in the more recent versions of generative linguistics, cf. the following illustration adapted from Christensen (2005:30), which is in turn based on Platzack (2001a,b): (18) CP Discourse Form: Proposition; Illocutionary Force, Topic, Focus IP Grammatical Form: Subject-Predicate (EPP/ Nexus"), Tense, Aspect, Voice, Polarity VP Thematic Form: Predication; argument structure At first sight, this convergence between functional grammar and generative syntax may seem not to include the Diderichsen model: Whereas each of the levels in both (17) and (18) contains the next lower level, the Diderichsen fields are discrete entities, which do not contain each other. This difference may be less crucial than one might expect, however, for two reasons. One reason is that some of the proponents of Diderichsen take some fields to be part of other fields, e.g. in Hansen & Heltoft (2003:172), the content field is part of the core field, as 17
18 shown in (7) above (similarly in Togeby 2003:268 and Blom 2006:43, and actually also in Diderichsen 1946:186, text above the tables). The second and more important reason is that even though Diderichsen's fields are not part of each other, the insights are basically the same in all three frameworks: The generative view of what happens at the IP-level (which comprises the VP, cf. (18)) or Dik's (1997:67) view of what happens at his level 2 (which comprises level 1, cf. (17)) are both very much parallel to Diderichsen's view of what happens in the nexus field, even if the content field is not part of the nexus field, cf. (6): (19)( 1) Foundation field Nexus field Content field Orientation towards the context of the sentence Discourse-relevant elements Interface between communication and content, e.g. polarity, aspect Organisation of content: actants, circumstantials (based on Diderichsen 1941:35; Togeby 2003:50-51; Heltoft 2005: ) This is because Diderichsen's nexus field corresponds to those parts of the generative tree which are part of the IP but not part of the VP or those parts of functional grammar's level 2 which are not part of level 1. Summing up so far, in sections 4.1. and 4.2, we presented one particular functional and one particular formal approach, and in sections 5.1 and 5.2, we showed that there are many interesting convergences between the approaches. 6. Movement Movement is an important device in many (but not all) formal approaches, but seems to be thought of as unnecessary in most functional approaches. However, whether an approach employs movement or not may not be so crucial. This is so because insights gained in an analysis assuming movement may often be useful also in analyses which do not assume movement (and vice versa). Many cases of "movement of an element" have corresponding descriptive devices in other approaches, e.g. possible alternative positions. We shall look at three alleged movements, viz. the position of unstressed object pronouns, the position of the finite verb in main and embedded clauses, and finally what elements may precede the finite verb in main clauses. For ease of exposition, examples have been chosen which closely resemble those used in (15) above. 6.1 The position of unstressed object pronouns In this section, we shall focus on what is known in functional approaches as letledsreglen, 'the rule of light objects', and in formal approaches as object shift. The basic observation has two parts. One is that a non-pronominal object always 18
19 follows a medial adverbial (i.e. an adverbial in Diderichsen's a-position = an adverbial leftadjoined to VP), irrespective of whether the adverbial and the object are separated by a verb (20a,b) or not (20c): (20) a. Nu har han faktisk poleret bilen med ståluld Now has he actually polished car-the with steel wool b.... fordi han faktisk polerer bilen med ståluld... because he actually polishes car-the with steel wool c. Nu polerer han faktisk bilen med ståluld Now polishes he actually car-the with steel wool The second part of the observation is that an unstressed pronominal object follows a medial adverbial if the adverbial and the object are separated by a verb, (21a,b), or by an object that is stressed. Otherwise the unstressed pronominal object precedes the medial adverbial (21c). In fact, unlike the non-pronominal object, the unstressed pronominal object cannot immediately follow the adverbial, cf. the difference between (20c) and (21d), at least not in "standard" Danish (cf. Pedersen 1993 for dialectal differences in Danish and cf. Vikner 2005b and references therein for the other Scandinavian languages): (21) a. Nu har han faktisk poleret den med ståluld Now has he actually polished it with steel wool b.... fordi han faktisk polerer den med ståluld... because he actually polishes it with steel wool c. Nu polerer han den faktisk med ståluld Now polishes he it actually with steel wool d. *Nu polerer han faktisk den med ståluld Now polishes he actually it with steel wool In formal approaches (starting with Holmberg 1986, see Vikner 2005b and references therein), (21c) is an example of movement (object shift) of an unstressed pronominal object from its base position (as seen in (20a,b,c) and (21a,b)) to a different position to the left of the medial adverbial. Such a movement is seen as leaving a so-called trace behind in the base position, which in turn is part of the account for why nothing else can occur in the object position in (21c) although the pronominal object has left this position: (22) Nu polerer han den faktisk bilen med ståluld Now polishes he it actually car-the with steel wool 19
20 As for the functional approaches, Erik Hansen (1970:121 = 2001:72) introduced a special slot in the sentence model to account for these pronouns, saying simply that if the V position remains empty, the unstressed object pronoun is placed in this special position to the left of the adverbial, but if the V position is filled, the unstressed object pronoun is placed in the normal object position. According to Hansen (1970:121), the object is thus placed in one position or the other, rather than the object moving from one position to the other. Another possible analysis of these data is that the unstressed object pronoun cliticises to another element, as suggested in the functional approach by Jørgensen (1991, 2000a,c) and in the formal approach by e.g. Josefsson (1992). The differences between cliticisation and noncliticisation hypotheses (with their consequences for what qualifies as a host for the clitic) are thus more substantial than the differences between the formal and the functional approaches. For further discussion of object shift, see e.g. Vikner (2005b), Engels & Vikner (2006), and Bjerre (2007) and references in these works. 6.2 The position of the finite verb in main and embedded clauses In Danish embedded clauses, the finite verb follows the medial adverbial and the subject, and immediately precedes the object, (23a), whereas in main clauses, the finite verb always occurs in the second position, preceding the medial adverbial and potentially also preceding the subject, (23b). (23) a.... fordi han faktisk polerer bilen med ståluld... because he actually polishes car-the with steel wool b. Nu polerer han faktisk bilen med ståluld Now polishes he actually car-the with steel wool The property that the finite verb always occurs in the second position in the main clause (with the exception of main clause yes/no-questions and certain conditional clauses, where the finite verb is the first element, see (24a) below) is referred to as "verb second" or V2, and it is a property that Danish has in common with all other Germanic languages, with only one exception: English. In formal approaches (starting with den Besten 1977, see Vikner 1995, chapter 3, and references therein), (23b) is an example of verb movement from V (via I ) into C. In other words, the verb starts out in V in both (23a,b). In (23a) the finite verb stays in V, whereas in (23b) it has moved (via I ) into C. Also here, the movement is seen as leaving a trace behind every time it moves out of a position. Almost all of the functional approaches have a slot, v, which has one position in embedded clauses, F-n-a-v-V-N-A, cf. (15c), and another position in main clauses, k-v-n-a-v-n-a, cf. (15b), rather than movement from one position to another. The fact 20
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By Joey Logano, special for USA TODAY
Editor's note: Joey Logano will document his rookie season in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series in an exclusive online driver diary for USA TODAY:
The Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway was the greatest race of my short career in the Sprint Cup Series, and the good vibes started well before Saturday night.
I hadn't raced at the "Track Too Tough To Tame" before, but the No. 20 Home Depot Toyota ranked fifth at the beginning of the first practice even though the car didn't feel that good. I suggested several changes and was told we didn't want to do too much. Everyone got faster, and we slipped back to 24th but kept working on it. I knew where I was losing speed; most of it was just me having to drive through it.
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Rain delayed the start of qualifying, so I talked to as many people — teammate Kyle Busch, Joe Gibbs Racing driver coach Mike McLaughlin, crew chief Greg Zipadelli — as I could. I decided I just had to hold my breath and go for it in qualifying. I qualified fifth and was breathing very hard after those two laps. Turn 1 is a tough corner, and you have to be right on it; there's no room for error. It's pretty hairy at Darlington, a one-lane racetrack where we try to run 43 cars two-wide.
After qualifying, I just felt comfortable about what I needed to do to get around a 1.336-mile track that many say is the trickiest in NASCAR. My career-best start was a key because I didn't have to battle through traffic to get to the front.
The handling was too free after the green flag Saturday, and we kept tuning on the car to get better. We also took two tires quite often to stay up at front. Track position at Darlington was crazy. Once we got out of traffic and out front in clean air, we were gone. When you were second or third or farther back running in dirty air — the turbulence created by several cars running in close quarters — it was a different feeling. When I was out front, I told Zippy, 'Don't loose it much,' but as soon as I got behind other cars, it was driving like a dump truck, and it was 'Man, we should have loosened the heck out of it.' You're stuck running in one lane.
Anyone who got out front near the end was going to win the race. It didn't matter who. I took the lead on Lap 278 of 367 by staying out under caution, and I led for 19 laps. If we'd stayed out instead of pitting on Lap 297, I would have had a decent shot at winning. But if the race had stayed green, we were six laps short on gas, and we're not in position to take gambles yet. Finishing ninth (which tied my career best from Talladega from two races earlier) lifted me two spots to 30th in points. If we were 20th in points, we'd say go for it. When we get there, we'll do that.
As it turned out, we could have made it to the end of the race without stopping because there were three more yellows for 11 laps after my pit stop. But it would have sucked if we were leading and ran out of gas with a really good race car and finished 30th.
Saturday was a big improvement over Friday, when I had a horrible Nationwide race and finished 12th after starting fourth. We haven't figured out why we're so bad. In practice, we made a few good adjustments, and I thought I had a car good enough to win. On Lap 2, I could tell it was way too tight. We started loosening the heck out of it, and it never made a difference. It's weird how good it was in practice and then changed so much. They didn't find anything wrong with the car like a bad spring or shock. I tried to write that one off as a learning experience and forget about it.
It was cool to lead at Darlington. That was the one place I thought I'd struggle, and I ran really well. It also was encouraging to hear Tony Stewart, who drove my car for the past 10 seasons, go out of his way during postrace interviews to congratulate me after he finished third. It was neat just to show everyone I could do this and was here for a reason.
There wasn't much time for celebrating. I had to wake up before the crack of dawn on Tuesday to drive to a test at Motor Mile Speedway at Radford, Va., and I had to do it again Wednesday for a test at the short track at Rockingham Speedway, which is about a 90-minute drive from the Charlotte area. A day off would be nice, or at least to sleep in until 8 a.m.!
I've tested at Rockingham about a half-dozen times this year (we've been working on trying to reduce brake heat to avoid the tire problems we had at Martinsville). Each trip, I've tried a different route to the track through the back roads of rural North Carolina. I found the quickest way yet Wednesday, through open fields with no stoplights. When you're trying to relieve the boredom of testing, this is exciting stuff.
To make the field for Saturday's Sprint All-Star Race, I need to either win the Showdown qualifying race or be voted in by fans at NASCAR's website. As long as I'm in the main event, I don't care which.
I think we'll be all right this weekend. We've now finished 21st or better in four straight races after a four-race stretch of 30th or worse. We're building on momentum that seems to keep carrying over. As long as we keep improving and I keep figuring out things that are helping me, we'll get there.
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This grapefruit and Campari sorbet is the perfect balance between sweet and bitter with a light texture which I love. It is also very easy to make with a minimal amount of heating, cooling and churning going on. Ice cream in general has to be the easiest dessert to make, and once you start making your own, its difficult to settle for anything but the best. With a sorbet, you want to taste the essence of the ingredients you are using. Without any cream or milk, the flavours should be bright and clean.
I saw a friend tweet a pic of an ice cream made with this flavour combination recently and couldn't tell if it was an ice cream or a sorbet but I fell in love with the idea. I decided to make it the latter as I felt the flavours would be better suited without any cream. This is perfect as a dessert or palate cleanser and I was thinking it could be lovely scooped into a glass and topped up with bubbly and served as a drink too. Continue Reading →


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George Osborne has announced that driverless car trials will take place on UK motorways next year.
The UK's Chancellor revealed his support for driverless car technology ahead of this week's budget announcement.
"Driverless cars could represent the most fundamental change to transport since the invention of the internal combustion engine," said Osborne in his pre-budget statement. "If successful, we could see driverless cars available for sale and on Britain's roads, boosting UK jobs and productivity."
Osborne plans to clear legislative barriers that would prevent driverless car technology from being used on UK roads, which could mean that the UK will be among the first in the world to adopt the technology in 2020.
Trials will initially hit local roads later this year, before extending to the country's motorways and A-roads in 2017.
Those aforementioned local trials are set to take place in Bristol, Coventry, Milton Keynes and Greenwich.
Related: Best self-driving tech from the Geneva Motor Show
Just last week, the Department for Transport revealed that the UK would be trialling driverless lorries in Cumbria later in 2016. The approach would see a human-driven lorry leading a convoy of up to ten automated lorries that follow closely behind, and which are capable of responding to surrounding road conditions.
The UK's terminally crowded roads would likely benefit more than most from such automated driving technology.
Will you be buying a driverless car? Let us know in the comments below.


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Christmas ligt
How does the type of circuits affect the strand of Christmas lights with a burned out bulb? IV.type of Circuit with a burned out bulb Dv. Affect the strand of light bulbs.
HYPOTHESIS 1 if the Christmas lights are arranged in a parallel circuit then when 1 bulb bursts will the other bulbs light up.
The lights are bright.
The lights are still bright and still working.
They are not as light because they are right together.
There is not light at all they do not light up.


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Sunday, February 05, 2017
Belgrave Square Sandbox
-= BETA TESTING - This is a new complimentary service being added to London City =-
-= Applications, comments and feedback to Torric Rodas please =-
Sandbox with 3 hour auto-return. You must have "London City Plus" group Active to use this Sandbox.
A supplementary level of access to London City, such as the ability to rez objects within the London City West Region
To be a member of this group you must:
* be known to us
* be trustworthy and responsible
* be a regular visitor and participant
* have payment info on file
* be 30 days old or more
* know what you're doing
* have no previous governance issues within the London City Estate.
Please clean up after yourself. No weapons testing, no heavy scripts or massive objects. Build on the ground!
If you rez vehicles, bear in mind they will be at the mercy of Auto-return in other regions. Please do not drive vehicles in pedestrian areas.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Building Classes in London City Sandbox
Learning to build in SL can be one of the most daunting experiences inside of this world.
Many of us find it easier to buy something ready made and often pay a lot of money for something that is actually quite straight forward to make, if only we knew how.
Ruby Jones (RubyJones) is now holding regular building lessons, twice a week on Mondays and Tuesdays in the London City Sandbox, inside the Houses of Parliament at 2.30am SL (10.30am UK).
Ruby is patient and helpful and gets a genuine thrill from passing on her skills to others.
During her research into what people needed, she discovered that far from the majority of people needing advanced lessons, they needed help and confidence in building basic prim designs.
On the day I attended it was a Beginners Class and we were all taught how to create a swing chair.
Whilst not a masterpeice I was quite pleased with the outcome. I recommend that no one be shy about lacking the ability to build, no matter how long you have been in SL. Ruby is endlessly kind, encouraging and gives great advice and practical demonstrations of things that all of us can make.
If you are interested in learning to build, why not pop along to the next class. If you're really shy, you are most welcome to just watch, but I bet you get bitten by the bug and can't resist getting involved.
Why not pop along on any Monday or Tuesday at 2.30am SL and see for yourself?
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ABC programming chief Steve McPherson says he has heard complaints about this season's Grey's Anatomy episodes but says creator Shonda Rhimes has "responded to the criticism" and viewers will see an improved show this spring. The main complaint: The storyline that has Izzie's dead boyfriend Denny reappearing, apparently as a ghost.
"It's not a ghost," McPherson says. "When you get to the end of the season and see what she has in mind it might not be your cup of tea," but viewers will realize there was a plan for the character all along.
The departure of Brooke Smith's Erica was not, as has been reported, based on the network's skittishness about her storyline as the lover for Callie (Sara Ramirez), McPherson says, adding there "will be a significant lesbian storyline" involving Callie. He says actors often explain their departures in ways that will "put themselves in the best light," but Smith's character simply wasn't working.
McPherson also contradicted rumors that T.R. Knight has asked to be let out of his contract, saying he expects the actor to return next season.
Grey's hit record-low viewership Thursday against Grissom's goodbye on CSI, but Private Practice managed to maintain last week's audience in its new slot behind Grey's. -- Gary Levin
For more ABC news, click "read more" below ...
Private Practice last season finally focused in on Addison (Kate Walsh), McPherson says. "Last season there were some good episodes, but they didn't really capture who she was. Now we've got back to the Addison we knew. The transition was so sudden for people who were fans of hers, and the introduction of all these new characters who were famous actors. (Rhimes) found the balance of medical stories we were telling; (Addison)'s a surgeon, so now we've got surgery." And he says several crossover episodes are planned to "get new viewers back into Practice."
Other news:
--The network continues to struggle with finding closed-ended "procedural" dramas to complement serialized hits such as Lost, Grey's and Desperate Housewives, though it's trying with Life on Mars and new midseason series The Unusuals (about New York cops) and Castle (about a mystery novelist who helps solve murders).
"There's no question procedurals are working," McPherson says. But "we want to grow our brand and build off the success we've had. We don't want to do a total departure and be doing CBS-like shows."
--On Housewives creator Marc Cherry's decision to stay with the show "in some capacity" until its natural end, after promising for years that it would never go past seven seasons: "He finally realized I would probably lock him up and not let him do that," McPherson says. --Gary Levin


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Module Two: Informed Consent
Andanda, Pamela
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Chemical emissions from residential dryer vents during use of fragranced laundry products
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Common laundry products, used in washing and drying machines, can contribute to outdoor emissions through dryer vents. However, the types and amounts of chemicals emitted are largely unknown. To investigate these emissions, we analyzed the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) both in the headspace of fragranced laundry products and in the air emitted from dryer vents during use of these products. In a controlled study of washing and drying laundry, we sampled emissions from two residential dryer vents during the use of no products, fragranced detergent, and fragranced detergent plus fragranced dryer sheet. Our analyses found more than 25 VOCs emitted from dryer vents, with the highest concentrations of acetaldehyde, acetone, and ethanol. Seven of these VOCs are classified as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) and two as carcinogenic HAPs (acetaldehyde and benzene) with no safe exposure level, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. As context for significance, the acetaldehyde emissions during use of one brand of laundry detergent would represent 3% of total acetaldehyde emissions from automobiles in the study area. Our study points to the need for additional research on this source of emissions and the potential impacts on human and environmental health.