Privative Clauses! The Last Hurrah?

Tobacco promotions at point-of-sale: the last hurrah.

OBJECTIVES The retail environment provides important opportunities for tobacco industry communication with current, former, and potential smokers. This study documented the extent of tobacco promotions at the retail point-of-sale and examined associations between the extent of tobacco promotions and relevant city and store characteristics. METHODS In each of 20 Ontario cities, 24 establishmen...

A Dying Cell's Last Hurrah: Flagging the Remnants of a Fatal Infection

Privative Tone in Bantu

The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of “zeroing out” a tone in the above sense: When is an opposition properly analyzed as the presence vs. absence of a tone, rather than two different indications of tone, e.g. a + vs. of a tone feature?1 Although phonetic pitch (Fo) is scalar in nature, phonological (categorical) tone frequently has a privative character. The most frequent situat...

Are There Privative Adjectives?

0. Introduction Montague (1970a) presented a semantic treatment of adjectives which he credited to unpublished work done independently by Hans Kamp and Terence Parsons; that work, and similar independent work of Romaine Clark, was subsequently published (Clark 1970, Kamp 1975, Parsons 1970). The central claim in that work was that adjective meanings should be analyzed as functions from properti...

Privative Negation in the Port Royal Logic

In this paper I argue that negation in The Port Royal Logic is not a failed or incoherent 4 approximation of Boolean complementation as maintained by Sylvain Auroux and Marc Dominicy, 5 but is rather a version of privative negation from medieval logic, and that as such it has a perfectly 6 coherent semantics. The discussion reviews the critiques of Auroux and Dominicy as well as the 7 semantics...