Many questions and few answers: on conversion in English

Many Questions and Few Answers: On Conversión in English

Conversión is a well-known word-formation process which, a priori, seems relatively easy to identify. However, a cióse look at its basics brings to light some critical questions which still remain unanswered to this day. The very nature of this operation, and the concepts of full and partial conversión are therefore here examined in the light of a need for explicit criteria for recognition of a...

Language and hybrids: too many answers for too few questions.

Percolation beyond Z D , Many Questions and a Few Answers

A comprehensive study of percolation in a more general context than the usual Z d setting is proposed, with particular focus on Cayley graphs, almost transitive graphs, and planar graphs. Results concerning uniqueness of innnite clusters and inequalities for the critical value p c are given, and a simple planar example exhibiting uniqueness and non-uniqueness for diierent p > p c is analyzed. N...

Percolation beyond Zz, Many Questions and a Few Answers

A comprehensive study of percolation in a more general context than the usual Z d setting is proposed, with particular focus on Cayley graphs, almost transitive graphs, and planar graphs. Results concerning uniqueness of infinite clusters and inequalities for the critical value pc are given, and a simple planar example exhibiting uniqueness and non-uniqueness for different p > pc is analyzed. N...

Emergence delirium in children: many questions, few answers.

The introduction of a new generation of inhaled anesthetics into pediatric clinical practice has been associated with a greater incidence of ED, a short-lived, but troublesome clinical phenomenon of uncertain etiology. A variety of anesthesia-, surgery-, patient-, and adjunct medication-related factors have been suggested to play a potential role in the development of such an event. Restless be...