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An experimental and analytical investigation was conducted to evaluate the behavior of inflection points as brace points in multi-span purlin roof systems. Seven tests were conducted using "C" and "Z" purlins attached to standing seam and through fastened panels. These tests were subjected to uniform gravity loading by means of a vacuum chamber. The experimental results were compared with analytical predictions based on the 1996 AISI Specifications with and without the inflection point considered a brace point. Finite element modeling of through fastened "C" and "Z" purlin tests were conducted and compared to experimental through fastened results. Conclusions were drawn on the status of the inflection point and on the design of multi-span purlin roof systems with current AISI Specifications. / Master of Science

A introductory problem set in morphology using Lakota (Siouan). Set includes a word and pdf version, but no answer key. Note that the word document uses the old SIL Doulos IPA93 font. / This collection consists of learning objects developed for use in courses offered by the Department of Linguistics. Learning objects include lectures, presentations, quizzes, activities, and more. Access to this collection is restricted to authorized faculty and instructors. For access to this collection, please contact Dr. Amy Fountain, Department of Linguistics, avf@email.arizona.edu.

This report describes inflectional verb morphology in Nomatsigenga, an Arawak language spoken in Peru. I first describe Nomatsigenga's systems of person, number, directionals, aspect, and reality status marking, cognates of which are also found in other Kampan languages. I also describe aspect markers, which seem to be a Nomatsigenga innovation among the Kampan languages. I will describe the structure of these markers, which show an interesting pattern of agreement with the absolutive argument. I further discuss the historical development of these markers, which have their source in the reanalysis of a set of noun class markers that also served as adjectivizers. I also discuss points relating to verb syntax, major word classes, and (morpho)phonology necessary in order to present a coherent description of verb morphology. / text

In his article "Russian Conjugation" (Word IV, 1948) Prof. Roman Jakobson presented an alternative analysis of the Russian conjugation based on the principle of the 'full-stem' and the "pivotal feature" of all Slavic conjugation, truncation, i.e. the loss of the final phoneme of a (verbal) stem or of the initial phoneme of the desinence. By confining this strictly synchronic formal analysis of present-day Standard Russian to simple verbs (with unprefixed one-root stems) and to the purely-verbal categories (the finite forms and the infinitive), adequate coverage of all principles and problems, including many illustrations, was possible in just a little more than 9 pages and the final section, listing only 41 exceptions, though somewhat oversimplified, gave striking proof of the superiority of the principles tested and a hint of the use that might be made of them in teaching Russian. With these two impressions in mind (i.e. the system's apparent superiority and its possible usefulness in the class), a further examination has been made here which involves the extension of the analysis to include those verb forms purposely excluded by Jakobson (i.e. the compound and semiverbal forms) in an attempt to demonstrate the extent of its validity and, at the same time, to investigate the practicality of its adoption in teaching Russian. It would, after all, be to the credit of the full-stem system of analyzing the Russian conjugation if it were possible, without too much complication, to predict the behavior of a verb's gerunds, participles and prefixed finite forms on the basis of its full-stem. In any case, the teacher of Russian requires some demonstration of the system's performance when it is applied to these additional forms as students are apt to want to do. A consistent effort has been made to preserve the essence of the full-stem, as conceived by Jakobson, as a sort of formula or 'key' to the grammatical forms. No new types of full-stem have been introduced, but two basic additions to the general principles do appear. One of these, the principle of the two-full-stem or multi-full-stem verb, is instrumental in reducing the number of exceptions admitted by Jakobson and is the result of the logical extension of Jakobson's basic principle to the position that any verbal form must realise a full-stem, even if it means proposing two or more full-stems to account for all the forms of certain verbs. A second major addition involves one of the most important 'significant features’ of the full-stem, namely the accent type. This is a direct result of the inclusion of semiverbal and prefixed forms. In order to explain the different stress preferences in these forms in otherwise identical full-stems, e.g. the nonsyllabic unaccented V'J_ (twist) and L'J__ (pour) with Masc. Pret. and short Masc. Past Pass. Part. na+v'í_l-#, na+v'í_t-# and ná+l'i__l-#, na+l'i_t-# (preferred to na+l'í_l-#, na+1'i_t-#) respectively, the principle of 'degrees of unaccentedness' within full-stem types has been introduced (i.e. V' J__ unacc., L' ˋJ_ maximally unacc.). In an attempt to improve the already established principles of describing the accent types of various full-stems, more emphasis has been placed on the feature of columnarity of stress pattern as the primary criterion for accentedness. This topic is of particular concern among the monosyllabic broadly-closed full-stems, which Jakobson divides into accented and unaccented varieties, but which may alternatively be considered two different varieties of accented full-stems whose "columnar" stress patterns contrast with those of the unaccented items among the other types of non-polysyllabics. With only a few changes in the detail of the system as conceived by Jakobson, the additions named above have been successfully adapted to the full-stem idea. This has however been achieved only at the expense of the clarity, precision and brevity of the exposition. Though the validity of the system has only become ever more apparent as the more complex data regularly submitted to formulization, the full complexity of the problem as it exists without any artificial limitations has made the preservation of the system's original virtues impossible even though, as will be seen, the number of verbs that need be strictly termed exceptional can be effectively reduced, even from Jakobson's low total of 41. The system's attractiveness from the pedagogical point of view is, however, seriously affected "by this increased complexity". / Arts, Faculty of / Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (DLitt)--Stellenbosch University, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the four nominal inflectional categories which are identified in morphology, i.e. case, noun class, agreement and number in Tshiven~a. This study also examines Determiner Phrase, enclitics and definiteness with regard to Tshivenc1a noun phrases. Chapter one is the introduction of this study. It states the aim of the study which is, firstly, to establish whether case, noun class, agreement and number occur in Tshivencla, and secondly, to examine the form, syntactic distribution and semantics of these categories in Tshiven~a. This chapter also gives the morphological assumptions of the model of lexememorpheme base morphology by Beard (1995) and Aronoff (1994). The theory of lexical semantics of Pustejovsky (1996) and the Minimalist program of Chomsky (1995) are also discussed. Chapter two examines the Determiner Phrase in Tshiven~a. It concentrates on the structure of the OP in Tshivenda. Attention has been 41\ given to the functional categories within the OP such as DET and Agr as well as the various nominal modifiers within the OP. Chapter three explores Case in Tshiven~a. In Tshiven9_a there are seven cases, i.e. nominative, accusative, instrumental, locative, genitive, dative and vocative. This chapter concentrates on the assignment of these cases and their grammatical functions. Chapter four explores the noun class in Tshivenda. It examines the form 1\ and the contribution of the meaning of the noun class prefixes. The morphological structure of the Tshivenda noun is taken as the framework 1\ for this analysis. It has been found that Tshivend,a.. has seventeen noun classes which are still active in this language. These noun class prefixes have 24 different semantic features which contribute to the meaning of the noun. Chapter five discusses agreement and number in Tshivenda. In the case A. of agreement it has been found that it is both dependent and independent of noun class. Subjectival and objectival agreement appear as two functional categories within the inflection phrase. Specific attention has also been given to existential agreement, sentential pronouns, the infinitive as well as problems with agreement with coordinated NPs. Certain cases have also been highlighted where no agreement appears. Lastly, it has been shown that number is not an inflectional category in Tshivenda, but it A is a semantic category. Chapter six is concemed with definiteness in the interpretation of the noun in Tshivenda. In the first place, it has been shown in which cases a noun 1\ phrase may be interpreted as definite or indefinite. Secondly, the contribution of the nominal modifiers with regard to the definiteness of the noun phrase has been investigated. Lastly, it has been shown that proper names have to be interpreted as definite. Chapter seven investigated the three enclitics in Tshivenda, i.e. de, shu '" A and vho. Their meaning and distribution have been explored with regard to their presence on nouns, nominal modifiers and verbs. The distribution of these three enclitics is dependent on their meaning. The enclitic de which A refers to quantifiers may not appear on verbs. Enclitics which are interrogative in nature such as d,..e and shu may not appear with interrogative nominal modifiers. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die vier nominale infleksie kategorieë wat in die morfologie geïdentifiseer is nl. naamval, naamwoordklas, klasooreenstemming en getal in Tshivenqa. Hierdie studie gee ook aandag aan Bepalersfrase, enklitieke en bepaaldheid m.b.t. die Tshiven2a naamwoordgroepe. Hoofstuk een is die inleiding tot die studie. Dit gee die doelstellings van die studie: eerstens moet vasgestel word of naamval, naamwoordklas, klasooreenstemming en getal in Tshivenda voorkom, en tweedens moet die A vorm, sintaktiese distribusie en semantiek van hierdie kategorieë in Tshivenda bepaal word. Hierdie hoofstuk gee ook aandag aan die A morfologiese aannames van die lekseem-morfeem morfologie van Beard (1995) en Aronoff (1994). Die teorie van leksikale semantiek van Pustejovsky (1996) word ook bespreek sowel as die Minimalistiese program in sintaksis van Chomsky (1995). Hoofstuk twee ondersoek die Bepalersfrase in Tshivenda. Dit konsentreer A veralop die struktuur van die Bepalersfrase in Tshivenda. Aandag is veral A gegee aan die funksionele kategorieë binne die Bepalersfrase soos die bepaler en klasooreenstemming asook die verskillende nominale bepalers in die Bepalersfrase. Hoofstuk drie handeloor die naamval in Tshivenda. Sewe naamvalle is in A Tshivend,.a. onderskei nl. nominatief, akkusatief, instrument, lokatief, genitief, datief en vokatief. Hierdie hoofstuk konsentreer op die toekenning van hierdie naamvalle en hulle grammatikale funksies. Hoofstuk vier ondersoek die naamwoordklas in Tshivend,a.. Dit gee veral aandag aan die vorm van die naamwoordprefikse sowel as die bydrae van hierdie prefikse tot die betekenis van die naamwoord in Tshivenda. Hierdie '" analise is gedoen binne 'n raamwerk van die morfologiese struktuur van die naamwoord. Daar is gevind dat Tshivend,a. nog sewentien naamwoordklasse het wat aktief in die taal is. Daarby kon 24 verskillende betekeniskenmerke van hierdie naamwoordprefikse bepaal word. Hoofstuk vyf bespreek klasooreenstemming en getal in Tshivenda. In die A geval van klasooreenstemming is gevind dat dit beide afhanklik en onafhanklik van naamwoordklas is. Klasooreenstemming ten opsigte van die onderwerp en voorwerp is twee funksionele kategorieë binne die infleksiefrase. Verder is spesiale aandag gegee aan eksistensie, sinsvoomaamwoorde, die infinitief sowel as neweskikkende naamwoordgroepe. Daar is ook gevalle aangedui waarin geen klasooreensteming voorkom. Getal is 'n semantiese kategorie in Tshivenda " maar nie' infleksie kategorie nie. Hoofstuk ses handeloor bepaaldheid ten opsigte van die interpretasie van die naamwoord in Tshivend,a.. In die eerste plek is aangedui in welke gevalle naamwoordgroepe bepaald of onbepaald geïnterpreteer kan word, en tweedens is aandag gegee aan die bydrae van nominale bepalers ten opsigte van die bepaaldheid van die naamwoordgroep. Laastens is gewys op die voorkoms van bepaaldheid by eiename. Hoofstuk sewe het die drie enklitieke in Tshivenda ondersoek nl. de, shu ,. J\ en vho. Hul betekenis en distribusie is nagegaan ten opsigte van hul voorkoms by naamwoorde, nominale bepalers asook werkwoorde. Die distribusie van hierdie drie enklitieke is duidelik afhanklik van hul betekenis. So kan de wat verwys na kwantifiseerders bv. nie saam met werkwoorde optree n"ie. Enklitieke wat interprogatief van aard is soos d,..e en shu kan ook dus nie saam met interrogatiewe nominale bepalers voorkom nie.

Os primeiros questionamentos a respeito da linguagem vêm dos filósofos gregos. Interessavam-se em saber como as palavras se organizavam para formar mensagem inteligível. Depois dos estoicos, os pesquisadores da Biblioteca de Alexandria, diante da necessidade de estabelecer os textos dos quais recebiam lições diferentes, catalogaram os fatos de língua, e começaram um estudo da língua baseado sobre normas e regras. Mas a língua não se enquadra em normas rígidas e elas são frequentemente desmentidas pelo uso original que cada falante, a fortiori cada autor, faz dela, o que gera exceções. Uma aprendizagem baseada sobre regras e exceções se apresenta como pouco satisfatória para o intelecto. Quanto ao latim, ele apresenta tanto uma flexão verbal quanto uma flexão nominal; é por meio dessa última que são reveladas as relações estabelecidas entre as palavras pelo falante para comunicar-se com outra pessoa. Neste trabalho procura-se abordar o enunciado a partir de dois pontos: primeiro, sublinhando os significados que permeiam as relações expressas pelos casos para os nomes, pelos modos e tempos para os verbos, segundo, mostrando como as formas, parte física da palavra, se estabeleceram na diacronia, e se modificaram na oralidade sob o efeito da economia linguística. A língua originária, o indo-europeu, nos permitiu perceber que tanto cada um dos sufixos formadores dos casos -as desinências casuais- quanto cada um dos sufixos formadores da flexão verbal -sufixos modais, temporais e desinências verbais- contemplavam determinado significado; a diferença nas formas provém da oralidade. Antes de abordar a flexão, descrevemos as modificações fonéticas provenientes da junção dos sufixos desinenciais, modais ou temporais com o tema, já que essas modificações não dependem do significado ou do valor das palavras às quais se aplicam. No estudo das flexões, por necessidade metodológica apresentamos sucessivamente a flexão nominal e a flexão verbal. Para os nomes partimos do significado concreto que os casos tiveram certamente na sua origem e indicamos os valores que adquiriram, apoiando-nos sobre exemplos abonados de autores latinos; estudamos a seguir a evolução fonética das formas. Para os verbos destacamos os valores de aspecto -infectum, aoristo e perfectum- mantidos na língua no significado senão na forma, e as intenções subjacentes a todo ato de fala reveladas pelo uso dos modos independentemente da presença de conjunções. Quanto às formas verbais, estudamo-las junto com cada um desses pontos e ao mesmo tempo sublinhamos que apresentam uma formação sem surpresa quando vistas na sua evolução fonética. / The first investigations on problems of language goes back to the classical Greek philosophers. They were interested in knowing the way the words are put together in order to produce an intelligible massage. Following the Stoics, the researchers of the Alexandria Library, pressed by the necessity of stablishing the texts from which they received various informations, started cataloging language facts and undertook a study of language based on norms and rules. Yet language does not easely submit itself to rigid rules, which are often brocken by the particular usage that each different speaker, and each author, make of it, always yielding exceptions. Apprenticeship based on rules and exceptions seems quite unsatisfactory to our mind. As for Latin, it is by the inflections of both nouns and verbs that the speaker makes up the relations among words, so that he can communicate with his interlocutor. In this paper, two ways are attempted the aproach the enuntiation: the first, underlining the meanings that pervade the relations revealed by the nouns\' cases, by verbs\' modes and times; the second, presenting the way the forms, the fisical part of the word, have been established diachronicaly, and have been modified orally throught the so called linguistic economy effect. The original language, the Indo-European, has allowed us to detect that each of the suffixes that shapes the cases - the casual desinences - as well as each of the suffixes that frame the verbal inflection - suffixes of mode and time as well as verbal desinences - contain a particular meaning; the difference of shapes comes from orality. Before paying attention to inflection, we have described the phonetical modifications proceeding from the connection of the suffixes of desinence, mode and time with the stem, since these modifications are independent from the meaning and value of the words to which they apply. In the study of the inflections, for methodological needs, we have presented both the nominal and verbal inflections. As for the nouns we have begun from the concrete meaning that the cases have certainly had in their origin, and then we point out the values added to them, relying on outstanding latin authors; next, we studied phonetic evolution of forms. As for verbs, we made distinction to the values of aspect - infectum, aoristo e perfectum - kept by the language in the meaning, if not in the form and the subjacent intensions at all revealed word, in the utilization of the modes, independently of the conjonctions presence. As for the verbal forms, we work them together with each of these points, and, at the same time, we underline that they present a no surprising character, as far as their phonetic evolution is concerned.

Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND HUMANITIES. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 419-426. / by John Joseph McCarthy, III. / Ph.D.

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Os primeiros questionamentos a respeito da linguagem vêm dos filósofos gregos. Interessavam-se em saber como as palavras se organizavam para formar mensagem inteligível. Depois dos estoicos, os pesquisadores da Biblioteca de Alexandria, diante da necessidade de estabelecer os textos dos quais recebiam lições diferentes, catalogaram os fatos de língua, e começaram um estudo da língua baseado sobre normas e regras. Mas a língua não se enquadra em normas rígidas e elas são frequentemente desmentidas pelo uso original que cada falante, a fortiori cada autor, faz dela, o que gera exceções. Uma aprendizagem baseada sobre regras e exceções se apresenta como pouco satisfatória para o intelecto. Quanto ao latim, ele apresenta tanto uma flexão verbal quanto uma flexão nominal; é por meio dessa última que são reveladas as relações estabelecidas entre as palavras pelo falante para comunicar-se com outra pessoa. Neste trabalho procura-se abordar o enunciado a partir de dois pontos: primeiro, sublinhando os significados que permeiam as relações expressas pelos casos para os nomes, pelos modos e tempos para os verbos, segundo, mostrando como as formas, parte física da palavra, se estabeleceram na diacronia, e se modificaram na oralidade sob o efeito da economia linguística. A língua originária, o indo-europeu, nos permitiu perceber que tanto cada um dos sufixos formadores dos casos -as desinências casuais- quanto cada um dos sufixos formadores da flexão verbal -sufixos modais, temporais e desinências verbais- contemplavam determinado significado; a diferença nas formas provém da oralidade. Antes de abordar a flexão, descrevemos as modificações fonéticas provenientes da junção dos sufixos desinenciais, modais ou temporais com o tema, já que essas modificações não dependem do significado ou do valor das palavras às quais se aplicam. No estudo das flexões, por necessidade metodológica apresentamos sucessivamente a flexão nominal e a flexão verbal. Para os nomes partimos do significado concreto que os casos tiveram certamente na sua origem e indicamos os valores que adquiriram, apoiando-nos sobre exemplos abonados de autores latinos; estudamos a seguir a evolução fonética das formas. Para os verbos destacamos os valores de aspecto -infectum, aoristo e perfectum- mantidos na língua no significado senão na forma, e as intenções subjacentes a todo ato de fala reveladas pelo uso dos modos independentemente da presença de conjunções. Quanto às formas verbais, estudamo-las junto com cada um desses pontos e ao mesmo tempo sublinhamos que apresentam uma formação sem surpresa quando vistas na sua evolução fonética. / The first investigations on problems of language goes back to the classical Greek philosophers. They were interested in knowing the way the words are put together in order to produce an intelligible massage. Following the Stoics, the researchers of the Alexandria Library, pressed by the necessity of stablishing the texts from which they received various informations, started cataloging language facts and undertook a study of language based on norms and rules. Yet language does not easely submit itself to rigid rules, which are often brocken by the particular usage that each different speaker, and each author, make of it, always yielding exceptions. Apprenticeship based on rules and exceptions seems quite unsatisfactory to our mind. As for Latin, it is by the inflections of both nouns and verbs that the speaker makes up the relations among words, so that he can communicate with his interlocutor. In this paper, two ways are attempted the aproach the enuntiation: the first, underlining the meanings that pervade the relations revealed by the nouns\' cases, by verbs\' modes and times; the second, presenting the way the forms, the fisical part of the word, have been established diachronicaly, and have been modified orally throught the so called linguistic economy effect. The original language, the Indo-European, has allowed us to detect that each of the suffixes that shapes the cases - the casual desinences - as well as each of the suffixes that frame the verbal inflection - suffixes of mode and time as well as verbal desinences - contain a particular meaning; the difference of shapes comes from orality. Before paying attention to inflection, we have described the phonetical modifications proceeding from the connection of the suffixes of desinence, mode and time with the stem, since these modifications are independent from the meaning and value of the words to which they apply. In the study of the inflections, for methodological needs, we have presented both the nominal and verbal inflections. As for the nouns we have begun from the concrete meaning that the cases have certainly had in their origin, and then we point out the values added to them, relying on outstanding latin authors; next, we studied phonetic evolution of forms. As for verbs, we made distinction to the values of aspect - infectum, aoristo e perfectum - kept by the language in the meaning, if not in the form and the subjacent intensions at all revealed word, in the utilization of the modes, independently of the conjonctions presence. As for the verbal forms, we work them together with each of these points, and, at the same time, we underline that they present a no surprising character, as far as their phonetic evolution is concerned.