This paper proposes that Northern Tepehuan is a tonal language with just one lexical tone 'low tone' and therefore privative system. L sufficient to explain the pitch contrasts in also necessary "inconsistencies" of stress assignment. Stress normally predictable from size word, syllable-weight, cued by H* intonational tone. Nonetheless, words do not obey Stress-to-Weight constraint, it could be...

Abstract In this paper, we examine Modern Greek adjectives with the negative prefix α - [a] (also called alpha privative ) which are derived from nouns. These formations display formal and semantic properties that cannot be attributed to any overt element of structure. Following a bottom-up approach, revisit question whether zero morphemes useful in realm derivational morphology. We argue for s...

In this paper we discuss the semantics of adjectives from the perspective of a Modern Type Theory (MTT) with an adequate subtyping mechanism. In an MTT, common nouns (CNs) can be interpreted as types and, in particular, CNs modified by intersective and subsective adjectives can be given semantics by means of Σ-types. However, an interpretation of CNs as types would not be viable without a prope...

This paper analyzes lexical aspect as the privative features [+dynamic], [+durative] and [+telic], rather than as equipollent features. Aspectual interpretation may therefore be described as monotonic composition of verbs with other constituents: marked verb features may not be changed, whereas unmarked features may become marked by other constituents. This model also predicts the variety of in...

Abstract This article is an investigation of the nature suspension judgement as it conceived by Sextus Empiricus. I carry out this examining what take to be Sextus’ most pertinent remarks on topic and considering them in context contemporary philosophical work suspension. Against more frequently encountered idea that operating with a privative conception suspension, argue instead has metacognit...

In this paper, I explore the possibility of typologizing two-height tone systems based on markedness. Drawing from a current database of 650 tone systems (of which over 400 are twoheight), I will first confirm that two-height systems may be “equipollent” /H, L/, “privative” /H/ or /L/ vs. Ø — or both, /H, L/ vs. Ø. I demonstrate that “markedness as faithfulness” (Pulleyblank 2004) and “faithful...