This thesis contributes to the debate on the link between a transitive verb corresponding to 'need' and the verb of possession in the world’s languages. Specifically, I analyze data mainly from Ewe and three Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages; Likpe, Tafi, and Logba. First, I report that Ewe expresses predicative possession using a wide range of structures. Prominent among these structures is an intransitive locative construction in which the possessee c-commands the possessor. This characterization situates Ewe in the B-languages group of the have/be dichotomy. Second, I demonstrate, drawing on compelling pieces of evidence from object shift in nominalization, object shift in inceptive aspectual constructions, object extraction in wh-movement, and the nominative-accusative paradigm, that Ewe has a transitive verb 'hiã' corresponding to 'need'. These facts pose a challenge to Harves and Kayne’s (2012) claim that all languages that have a transitive verb corresponding to need are languages that have an accusative-Case-assigning verb of possession. Third, I have shown that predicative possessees are not licensed in like manner as transitive objects, contra Halpert and Diercks’ (2012) prediction that all languages that have a transitive verb corresponding to 'need' are languages in which predicative possessees are licensed in the same manner as transitive objects. Fourth, I show that data from the three GTM languages also pose a challenge to the predictions in Harves & Kayne (2012) and Halpert & Diercks (2016). Finally, I suggest that the presence or absence of a transitive verb corresponding to 'need' is not necessarily contingent on a transitive verb of possession, and therefore, the optionality of a transitive 'need' in H-languages should be extended to B-languages.

O presente trabalho objetiva discorrer acerca do potencial semântico-expressivo do predicativo, bem como de seu perfil modalizador. Enxergamos essa função sintática como um elemento modalizante em essência, já que, em muitos casos, o falante consegue demonstrar sua opinião por meio de seu uso, agregado a escolhas lexicais convenientes. Em muitas partes da dissertação, a semântica e a estilística conseguem explicar melhor o fenômeno modal do predicativo. A sintaxe não dá conta disso sozinha. Falamos ainda da topicalização do predicativo como um recurso modalizador, bem como da noção de balizamento.Usamos também como exemplos um corpus exemplificativo heterogêneo para mostrar que o predicativo, topicalizado ou não, funciona como recurso modalizador, semântico e expressivo / This paper aims to discuss about the expressive semantic-predicative potential, and his modalizator profile. We see this syntactic function as a modalizating element "in essence, because, in many cases, the speaker can show his/her opinion using it, connected with lexical convenient choices. In many parts of the dissertation, semantics and stylistics can better explain the phenomenon of predicative modal form. Syntax does not make it herself. We still talk about predicative topicalization as a modalizator resource and also talk about the concept of "marking". We also use heterogeneous corpus examples to show that predicative, topicalizated or not, works as a modalizator, semantic and expressive resource

O presente trabalho objetiva discorrer acerca do potencial semântico-expressivo do predicativo, bem como de seu perfil modalizador. Enxergamos essa função sintática como um elemento modalizante em essência, já que, em muitos casos, o falante consegue demonstrar sua opinião por meio de seu uso, agregado a escolhas lexicais convenientes. Em muitas partes da dissertação, a semântica e a estilística conseguem explicar melhor o fenômeno modal do predicativo. A sintaxe não dá conta disso sozinha. Falamos ainda da topicalização do predicativo como um recurso modalizador, bem como da noção de balizamento.Usamos também como exemplos um corpus exemplificativo heterogêneo para mostrar que o predicativo, topicalizado ou não, funciona como recurso modalizador, semântico e expressivo / This paper aims to discuss about the expressive semantic-predicative potential, and his modalizator profile. We see this syntactic function as a modalizating element "in essence, because, in many cases, the speaker can show his/her opinion using it, connected with lexical convenient choices. In many parts of the dissertation, semantics and stylistics can better explain the phenomenon of predicative modal form. Syntax does not make it herself. We still talk about predicative topicalization as a modalizator resource and also talk about the concept of "marking". We also use heterogeneous corpus examples to show that predicative, topicalizated or not, works as a modalizator, semantic and expressive resource

Ce travail sur les constructions converses en a da/ a primi contribue à la construction du lexique-grammaire du roumain. Les tables DP1 et DP2 sont le résultat de l'analyse des phrases à V-n (noms prédicatifs associés à des verbes) ou Npa (noms prédicatifs autonomes) actualisés par le verbe support a da. Les particularités du roumain font que les propriétés syntaxiques décrites soient très intéressantes lorsque nous analysons d'une manière contrastive le français et le roumain. Les divergences entre la réalisation des verbes supports a da et donner, aussi bien que les divergences concernant leurs variantes et les déterminants des noms prédicatifs étudiés, constituent des difficultés dans les domaines de la traductologie et de l'enseignement du FLE / This work on a da/ a primi converse constructions contributes to the creation of the lexicon-grammar of Romanian. The tables DP1 and DP2 are the product of an analysis of sentences containing the support verb 'a da' and V-n (predicative nouns associated to verbs) or Npa (autonomous predicative nouns). The particularities of Romanian make the description of syntactic properties interesting especially when comparing this language to French. The dissimetries in collocations as well as those regarding determiners and variants of support verbs a da/ donner result in difficulties one encounters in the domains of traductology and teaching French as a foreign language

The topic of the present dissertation is teachers’ everyday dilemmas and the use of language to deal with these dilemmas. The concept of dilemma is compared to the concept of risk and the concept of paradox. The theoretical background consists of sociological systems theory and linguistic pragmatic theory. The empirical data consist of observations of teachers in everyday situations. The theoretical and empirical approaches are used to illuminate each other. Teachers’ ways of dealing with dilemmas are described as use of linguistic resources. Results show that dilemmas are complex social phenomenon that include global system media, trust and language use. Teachers face dilemmas as unpredicted clashes of conflicting expectations. The conflicting expectations come into view as global system media and local trust. The resources required in the constructing of trust and rationality shows how teachers are dealing with dilemmas. Teachers’ ways of dealing with dilemmas come into view as use of linguistic resources for logic and modality.

L'objectif de cette recherche est de définir les significations du N (nom) fois au travers des principales constructions qui l'utilisent en français contemporain, et d‟expliquer la formation des expressions dérivées autrefois, des fois (que), parfois, quelquefois, toutefois, une fois (que). Examiné sous l'angle du lexique, le mot fois est un substantif féminin, qui, précédé d'un déterminant, se constitue en groupe nominal (GN). Le N fois dénote un comptage d'occurrences, c'est-à-dire d'unités de discours, qui sont le plus souvent des processus verbaux ou des prédicats. Il s'agit donc d‟unités linguistiques ce qui explique que fois apparaît dans des contextes divers. Nous avons classé les principales constructions en fonction des déterminants relevés dans le GN fois. D'une part, les GN composés des adjectifs cardinaux ou quantificateurs + fois permettent de compter des occurrences du langage et ont une fonction adverbiale de quantification ; si les occurrences comptées sont des processus verbaux, ils portent en sus une notion temporelle à valeur itérative ou fréquentielle. Avec les autres déterminants (article défini et indéfini, adjectif démonstratif, quantificateurs universels tous les et chaque), fois est un nom temporel qui tend à se standardiser. Les expressions dérivées évoluent sémantiquement et produisent une forme adverbiale préalable à d'autres transformations. Nous pouvons ainsi identifier le groupe des adverbiaux de quantification, le plus ancien, qui a facilité l'apparition des expressions dérivées, et un groupe plus récent où fois apparaît comme un nom temporel au même titre que jour, instant ou moment. / We aim in this search to define the significations of N (name) fois through the main constructions using it in modern French, and to explain how it helped in forming the derived expressions autrefois, des fois (que), parfois, quelquefois, toutefois, une fois (que). From a lexical point of view, the word fois is a feminine substantive, and, built with a determiner, it forms a nominal group (NG). The N fois denotes an occurrences counting, that means discurse units counting, mostly verbal process or predicates. Therefore it concerns liunguistic units and that's why fois is used in several contexts. We organized the main constructions according to the determiner used in NG fois. Firstly, NG built with cardinal adjectives or quantifiers + fois allow counting language occurrences and function as a quantification adverb ; if the occurrences are verbal process, they bring besides a temporal notion with iterative or frequential value. With other déterminers (definite and indefinite article, demonstrative adjective, universal quantifiers tous les and chaque), fois is a temporal name on the way to standardisation. The derived expressions change semantically and come to an adverbial form prior other transformations. This concludes to identify the group of quantification adverbs, the former one, which helped the formation of derived expressions, and a newer group in which fois is a temporal name as jour, instant or moment.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / O presente trabalho busca, primeiramente, descrever e analisar as ocorrÃncias da variaÃÃo da concordÃncia de nÃmero em predicativos do sujeito em falantes na cidade de Fortaleza. Para isso, adotamos como base teÃrica a SociolinguÃstica Variacionista (LABOV, 1966; 1972; 2001). Partimos do conhecimento sobre concordÃncia nominal em predicativos do sujeito da gramÃtica normativa da lÃngua portuguesa descrito nas gramÃticas de Cunha; Cintra (1985) e Bechara (1989). Adotamos como base para nossa pesquisa os estudos sobre variaÃÃo na concordÃncia de nÃmero no portuguÃs realizados por Scherre (1988), Scherre; Naro (1998) e Scherre (2014). Como corpus para a obtenÃÃo dos dados, utilizamos o projeto NORPOFOR (Norma Oral do PortuguÃs Popular de Fortaleza), do qual selecionamos uma amostra de 48 informantes estratificados por sexo, anos de escolaridade e tipo de registro (D2 e EF). Para a anÃlise estatÃstica dos dados, utilizamos o programa GoldVarb X (SANKOFF; TAGLIAMONTE; SMITH, 2005), que fornece resultados estatÃsticos de lÃngua falada para a anÃlise de dados a partir de um modelo binÃrio de variÃvel dependente, selecionando as variÃveis que se mostram estatisticamente relevantes para o fenÃmeno estudado. Em seguida, aplicamos o teste de reaÃÃo subjetiva para 300 alunos de diversos cursos das trÃs Ãreas de estudo -- ciÃncias humanas, exatas e biolÃgicas -- da Universidade Federal do CearÃ. A partir da coleta desses dados, investigamos como os falantes fortalezenses avaliam o fenÃmeno variÃvel em estudo. Os fatores selecionados pelo programa GoldVarb X (SANKOFF; TAGLIAMONTE; SMITH, 2005) como estatisticamente significativos foram sexo do falante, paralelismo formal, caracterÃsticas formais do verbo da oraÃÃo e caracterÃsticas formais do sujeito da oraÃÃo. ConcluÃmos que, no geral, falantes do sexo feminino tendem a ser mais conservadores em relaÃÃo ao uso da concordÃncia nominal em predicativos do sujeito, confirmando nossa hipÃtese, baseada nas teorias de Labov (2010) e resultados obtidos por Scherre (1991) e Dias (1996). TambÃm concluÃmos que o tipo de elocuÃÃo, formal ou informal, mesmo nÃo tendo sido uma variÃvel selecionada como estatisticamente significativa pelo programa, à relevante como variÃvel prioritariamente para variantes correlacionadas à saliÃncia fÃnica, como a tonicidade dos itens regulares e processo morfofonolÃgico de formaÃÃo de plural. Com os testes de reaÃÃo subjetiva, percebemos que, ao contrÃrio da nossa hipÃtese, alunos de ciÃncias exatas tendem a ser mais conservadores em relaÃÃo ao fenÃmeno em estudo. Podemos afirmar tambÃm que itens mais salientes, tanto foneticamente quanto por serem menos usuais, tendem a ter sua forma que nÃo apresenta a marcaÃÃo explÃcita de plural /s/ com maior grau de avaliaÃÃes negativas pelos falantes. No geral, entendemos que os testes de reaÃÃo subjetiva indicam que a falta de concordÃncia de nÃmero nos predicativos do sujeito na cidade de Fortaleza à avaliada negativamente, mesmo em situaÃÃes informais. / This work aims, primarily, to describe and analyze the occurrences of number agreement variations in subject predicative in speakers from the city of Fortaleza. For that purpose, we adopt Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 1966; 1972; 2001) as the theoretical basis. We set as a starting the knowledge of noun agreement in subject predicatives in the normative grammar in the Portuguese language described in the grammars by Cunha; Cintra (1985) and Bechara (1989). We adopt as basis for our research studies on number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese realized by Scherre (1988), Scherre; Naro (1998) and Scherre (2014. For data gathering, we used the NORPOFOR (Norma Oral do PortuguÃs Popular de Fortaleza) project, from which we selected a sample of 48 informants stratified by sex (male and female), years of educations (0-8 years and 9-11 years) and type of register (informal (D2) and formal (EF)). For the statistical analysis of data, we utilized the program GoldVarb X (SANKOFF; TAGLIAMONTE; SMITH, 2005), which provides statistical results for spoken language for data analysis, from a binary model of dependent variable, selecting the variables which are shown to be statistically significant to the studied phenomenon. Next, we applied the subjective reaction test to 300 students of several courses in the three main areas of studies â Human Sciences, Physical Sciences and Biological Sciences â at Universidade Federal do CearÃ. From this data collection, we investigated how the speakers from Fortaleza the variable phenomenon in question. The factors selected as statistically relevant were the speakers sex, formal parallelism, formal characteristics of the verb in the sentence and formal characteristics of the subject in the sentence. We have concluded, in general, that female speakers tend to be more conservative in relation to number agreement in subject predicatives, confirming our hypothesis, based on the theories by Labov (2001), and the results obtained by Scherre (1991) and Dias (1996). We also concluded that the type of register, formal or informal, although not selected by the statistical program as a relevant variable, is shown to be relevant to some independent variables, especially those related to phonic salience, such as tonicity of the regular items and morphophonological process of plural formation. With the subjective reaction tests, we realized that, contrary to our hypothesis, students from the Physical Sciences tend to be more linguistically conservative than those of Biological and Human Sciences, regarding the phenomenon studied by us. We can also affirm that more salient items, both phonically and by being less usual, tend to be evaluated more negativelly in their plural form without explicit plural marks. In general, we understand that we linguistic evaluation tests indicate that the lack of number agreement in subject predicatives in the city of Fortaleza is negatively evaluated, even in informal situations.

Cette étude empirique synchronique se focalise sur les emplois effectifs des copules espagnoles ser et estar dans les constructions attributives adjectivales dans la variété mexicaine de l’espagnol. Les constructions qui nous intéressent sont celles qui admettent les deux copules, classiquement distinguées en termes de type de prédicat, selon la distinction de Carlson (1977) : Individual-level Predicates et Stage-Level Predicates. Nous avons pourtant observé des occurrences dans la variété mexicaine où cette distinction n’explique pas la présence de la copule estar, qui semble être en cours d’extension, ce qui a déjà été observé par divers auteurs qui ont étudié certaines variétés américaines. Étant donné que la bibliographie sur le sujet est nombreuse et que les approches et perspectives sont diverses, il nous a semblé important, pour la compréhension du sujet, d’établir d’abord un historique critique de la question, qui a été divisé par type d’approche et par auteur. Ensuite, dans une démarche de découverte, fondée en grande partie sur notre intuition de locutrice native, nous avons entrepris une première application analytique avec une tâche contextualisée de préférence comparative entre locuteurs espagnols et locuteurs mexicains, ce qui a montré une considérable variation interne parmi les locuteurs mexicains. Enfin, nous proposons une analyse multifactorielle de nos données « naturelles », i.e. spontanées, tant écrites qu’orales, de diverses sources, ce qui nous a permis de comparer différents critères permettant d’identifier ceux qui favorisent la sélection de estar, et les différentes valeurs sémantiques potentielles que le choix d’une copule plutôt que de l’autre entraîne. / This empirical and synchronic study focuses on the actual uses of Spanish copulas ser and estar in predicative constructions in Mexican Spanish. The constructions studied here are those which admit both copulas. These constructions have been traditionally distinguished following Carlson’s (1977) Individual-level Predicates and Stage-level Predicates. Nevertheless, we have noticed that some of the occurrences of estar in Mexican Spanish cannot be explained by the Carlsonian distinction. This copula seems to be undergoing an extension process in some of the varieties of Latin American Spanish. Authors have studied Spanish copulas from different approaches and perspectives. To better understand the complexity of the matter, we have established a critical history of this issue. Then, following a discovery process based mostly on our native speaker’s intuition, we analyze the question applying a comparative experimental task between Mexican Spanish and European Spanish speakers, which shows important internal variations among Mexican native speakers. Finally, we propose a multifactorial analysis of our “natural”, i.e. spontaneous, written and oral corpora from different sources, which allows us to compare different patterns, and to identify which ones are significant for choosing estar. To conclude, the various potential semantic values entailed by copula choice are analyzed.

Notre étude a commencé par une brève présentation de la langue persane et des parties du discours suivi par la démonstration de l'adjectif persan dans la grammaire contemporaine, notion floue dans les études antérieures. Étant donné que l'adjectif persan n'a pas de marquage flexionnel, cette étude exploratoire a pour but d’identifier des critères pertinents pour distinguer la catégorie adjectivale des autres catégories existantes (notamment nominale et verbale). Le résultat de ce travail nous a conduits à une étude morphosyntaxique et sémantique nous permettant de conclure au fait que l'adjectif persan est une sous-catégorie de la catégorie nominale. / Our study begins with a brief presentation of the Persian language and the parts of speech followed by the demonstration of the Persian adjective in the contemporary grammar and to look for this vague notion in the previous studies. Given that the Persian adjective has no inflected marking, this search aims to identifying distinctive criteria to distinguish the adjectival category from the other existing categories (in particular nominal and verbal). The results of this work conduct us towards a morphosyntactic and semantic study which allowing us to conclude that the Persian adjective is a subcategory of the nominal category.

Symbolic dynamics is a current interest in the area of anomaly detection, especially in mechanical systems.  Symbolic dynamics reduces the overall dimensionality of system responses while maintaining a high level of robustness to noise.  Rolling element bearings are particularly common mechanical components where anomaly detection is of high importance.  Harsh operating conditions and manufacturing imperfections increase vibration innately reducing component life and increasing downtime and costly repairs.  This thesis presents a novel way to detect bearing vibrational anomalies through Symbolic Aggregate Approximation (SAX) in the two-dimensional time-frequency domain.  SAX reduces computational requirements by partitioning high-dimensional sensor data into discrete states.  This analysis specifically suits bearing vibration data in the time-frequency domain, as the distribution of data does not greatly change between normal and faulty conditions. Under ground truth synthetically-generated experiments, two-dimensional SAX in conjunction with Markov model feature extraction is successful in detecting anomalies (> 99%) using short time spans (< 0.1 seconds) of data in the time-frequency domain with low false alarms (< 8%).  Analysis of real-world datasets validates the performance over the commonly used one-dimensional symbolic analysis by detecting 100% of experimental anomalous vibration with 0 false alarms in all fault types using less than 1 second of data for the basis of 'normality'. Two-dimensional SAX also demonstrates the ability to detect anomalies in predicative monitoring environments earlier than previous methods, even in low Signal-to-Noise ratios. / Master of Science