A considerable amount of research in generative syntax over the last decade and a half has been based on the hypothesis that the settings of binary parameters, such as [± null subject], can exhaustively describe the full range of possible grammars of natural languages!. Indeed, the prime example used by Chomky (1981) is the so-called "null subject parameter", which was supposed to correlate a n...

In Japanese a certain kind of phrase, which Kuroda (1965) calls "indetenninate", can function as a wh-phrase, existential quantifier or universal quantifier depending on context and the use of particles. I argue that "indetenninates" are contrastive-focused, and that the meanings of existential and universal quantifiers are made of (in)finite application of disjunction ("ka") and conjunction ("...

Wh-questions are answered with a list of pairs when quantified expressions such as "every professor" interact with wh-phrases. The theory of branching quantification is extended to wh-quantifier interactions to account for the question reading associated with list answers. It is also shown that there are several phenomena which would be better explained when functional variables are incorporate...

and Applied Analysis 3 In scientific and engineering computations, many eigenvalue problems have the following first type of mixed variational formulation: find λ, u, σ ∈ R × V × W , u, σ / 0, 0 , such that a ( u, ψ ) b ( ψ, σ ) λ ( u, ψ ) D, ∀ψ ∈ V, 2.3 b u, v 0, ∀v ∈ W. 2.4 In order to solve problem 2.3 2.4 , one should construct finite element spaces Vh ⊂ V and Wh ⊂ W . Restricting 2.3 2.4 o...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the wh movement for Romanian in TAG formalisrn. Romanian shares free extractibility from tensed clauses with its Rornance sister languages and it has borrowed multiple wh-fronting from the slavic languages. These features of Rornanian are quoted by Kroch (1989) frorn Comorovsky (1986) , where he justifies the analysis of extractions in TAG. This formalism all...