Pronoun interpretation in English has been demonstrated to be sensitive to an interaction between grammatical and pragmatically-driven factors. This study investigated the interpretation of pronouns in Japanese, which has both null and overt forms. Thirty-two native speakers of Japanese per experiment participated in passage completion studies with transfer-of-possession contexts (Experiment 1)...

About one third of the Pama-Nyungan languages Australia employ pronominal cross-referencing, yet systematic typological patterns non-subject argument registration remain unexamined. We analyze this variation from two perspectives by surveying 22 languages. Firstly, we survey which kinds case-marked arguments can be cross-referenced these systems. From perspective, find that a number nominal exp...

The effect of accidental drops on MEMS sensors are examined within the frame-work of a multi-scale finite element approach. With specific reference to a polysilicon MEMSaccelerometer supported by a naked die, the analysis is decoupled into macro-scale (at dielength-scale) and meso-scale (at MEMS length-scale) simulations, accounting for the verysmall inertial contribution of the sensor to the o...

The Stat5 transcription factors Stat5a and Stat5b have been implicated in lymphoid development and transformation. Most studies have employed Stat5a/b-deficient mice where gene targeting disrupted the first protein-coding exon, resulting in the expression of N-terminally truncated forms of Stat5a/b (Stat5a/b(DeltaN/DeltaN) mice). We have now reanalyzed lymphoid development in Stat5a/b(null/null...

Outside LFG, the term ‘subjectless’ is found referring to a range of phenomena in which the expression of the predicate lacks an overt lexical item (a syntactic constituent) bearing the grammatical function of the subject. In some of these phenomena, for example in prodrop, the architecture of LFG allows us to find the subject at the a-structure and f-structure levels despite there being no cat...

We propose an annotation framework to explicitly identify dropped subject pronouns in Chinese. We acknowledge and specify 10 concrete pronouns that exist as words in Chinese and 4 abstract pronouns that do not correspond to Chinese words, but that are recognized conceptually, to native Chinese speakers. These abstract pronouns are identified as “unspecified”, “pleonastic”, “event”, and “existen...