Half preceded or followed by the (in)definite article or other modifiers

The indefinite article – Indefinite ? – Article ?

Perlmutter (1970) argued that the indefinite article is categorically different from the definite article and proposed that it is a clitic version of the numeral "one". But there are, as Perlmutter himself pointed out, instances of "a" as well as of "one" that don't seem to have the semantics of the numeral. Hence a divorce of "a" (and of "one") from "numeral"-hood is called for. Furthermore, t...

Human reactions during flight to acceleration preceded by or followed by weightlessness.

D U R I N G the past quarter of a century, aeromedical investigators have succeeded with great ingenuity in simulating on the ground nearly all the conditions and stresses to which the pilot of an aircraft or of a space vehicle could be exposed. Gigantic human centrifuges and rocket sleds have been created to produce high accelerations at controlled rates of onset and decay. Elaborate low press...

5 - 1 - 2012 The indefinite article – Indefinite ? – Article ?

Perlmutter (1970) argued that the indefinite article is categorically different from the definite article and proposed that it is a clitic version of the numeral "one". But there are, as Perlmutter himself pointed out, instances of "a" as well as of "one" that don't seem to have the semantics of the numeral. Hence a divorce of "a" (and of "one") from "numeral"-hood is called for. Furthermore, t...

Half empty or half full?

Synaptic Vesicles: Half Full or Half Empty?

The regulation of quantal size through pre- rather than postsynaptic mechanisms has recently received considerable attention as a potential mechanism for plasticity. Vesicular transporters catalyze the filling of synaptic vesicles with transmitter and are thus potential substrates for such presynaptic regulation. In this issue of Neuron, Prado et al. pursue this line of investigation and show t...