Tesis sobre el tema "Verb valence"

Cette étude, qui se situe dans les domaines de la morphosyntaxe et de la sémantique, tente de montrer quels sont les constituants qui entrent en jeu dans la sémantique de la relation locative des verbes de déplacement, de mouvement et de position en français et en géorgien. Sémantiquement, le signifié lexical de chaque verbe présenté implique un sème locatif et un certain nombre d’arguments, faisant référence à des entités qui jouent chacune un rôle précis dans ce type d’événement signifié par le verbe. Cette relation unit également d’autres éléments: les préverbes et les adpositions (prépositions/postposition). Les relations construites à trois et à deux arguments dans les deux langues font intervenir les phénomènes de la valence et de la diathèse. La valence verbale désigne de la manière la plus générale l’aptitude combinatoire de ces verbes, et la diathèse renvoie à une opération morphosyntaxique d’augmentation et de réduction de la valence verbale. L’expression du déplacement, du mouvement et de la position relève des propriétés sémantiques comme la trajectoire, la manière, le lieu de localisation, l’intentionnalité et des propriétés aspectuelles. Cette étude contrastive propose, d’une part, une description des verbes de déplacement, de mouvement et de position du français et du géorgien et, d’autre part, relève les différences et les similitudes morphosyntaxiques, sémantiques et combinatoires spécifiques comme le rôle des préverbes, des adpositions, des arguments locatifs, ainsi que l’importance de ces verbes dans l’expression du déplacement, du mouvement et de la position
The present study develops a general typology of movement, motion and position verbs in modern French and Georgian. Working in a morphosyntactic and semantic perspective, I attempt to trace the constituents that are involved in the semantics of locative relations with movement, motion and position verbs in both languages. From a semantic point of view, the lexical meaning of each verb included in the corpus implies a locative seme and a certain number of arguments referring to entities that play a definite role in the particular event signified by the verb. The same relation occurs between other elements of the sentence: preverbs and adpositions (prepositions/postpositions). In both languages, two- and three-argument relations trigger phenomena known as valence and diathesis. Verbal valence indicates, at the most general level, the combinatory aptitude of a verb, while diathesis refers to morphosyntacic operation of augmentation and reduction of verbal valence. The expression of movement, motion and position implies semantic properties such as trajectory, manner of motion, spatial place, intentionality and the aspectual properties of movement and motion verbs. A contrastive study allowed us, on the one hand, a description of movement, motion and position verbs in both languages, and on the other hand to pinpoint specific morphosyntactic, semantic and combinatory differences and similarities, such as the tole of preverb, adpositions, locative arguments, and appreciate how verbs enter in the expression of movement, motion and position

Dans le cadre des approches constructionistes, cette thèse étudie les verbes labiles de l’anglais, qui peuvent manifester des configurations syntaxiques variées sans changer de forme. L’étude de la complémentation de ces verbes montre que leur catégorisation en familles sémantiques est pertinente mais pas suffisante pour expliquer leur comportement. La thèse défend une approche syncrétique de la complémentation du verbe qui rend compte de son importante productivité et de ses limites parfois arbitraires. Une analyse montre que les verbes ont tous une configuration syntaxique par défaut, qui n’est pas signifiante et qui permet simplement au verbe d’exprimer ses arguments de façon non marquée, en accord avec certains principes de cohérence conceptuelle. À l’inverse, lorsque la complémentation du verbe a un apport sémantique identifiable, l’existence de schémas de complémentation pleinement signifiants est postulée. Il s’agit d’ensembles de compléments dont le sens est distinct de celui du verbe auquel ils sont associés et se retrouve de façon régulière avec des verbes de catégories diverses. Il est démontré que les schémas de complémentation doivent être considérés comme des unités linguistiques de plein droit de l’anglais. Cela implique qu’en synchronie, ces schémas sont emmagasinés par les locuteurs plutôt que le résultat d’un processus d’analogie avec des constructions existantes. Leur statut d’unité linguistique permet d’étudier leur sémantisme de la même façon que des unités lexicales plus classiques. S’ils sont en majorité polysémiques, certains schémas ont des emplois difficiles à relier sémantiquement et doivent donc être considérés comme des homonymes
Within a constructionist framework, this thesis studies English labile verbs, which can enter into various syntactic configurations without changing form. A study of their complementation shows that categorizing them into semantic families is relevant but not sufficient to explain their behavior. The thesis defends a syncretic approach to verb complementation to that accounts for its important productivity and its sometimes arbitrary limits. It is shown that all verbs have a default syntactic configuration, which is not meaningful and which simply allows the verb to express its arguments in an unmarked way, in accordance with certain principles of conceptual coherence. Conversely, when the complementation of the verb has an identifiable semantic contribution, the existence of fully meaningful patterns of complementation is posited. These are defined as sets of complements, whose meaning is distinct from that of the verb with which they are associated and is found regularly with verbs of diverse categories. It is shown that patterns of complementation should be considered fully-fledged English linguistic units. This implies that synchronically, these patterns are mentally stored by speakers rather than the result of a process of analogy with existing constructions. Their status as linguistic units makes it possible to study their meaning in the same way as more classical lexical units. Although most of them are polysemic, some patterns of complementation exhibit uses that are difficult to link semantically and must therefore be viewed as homonyms

The term ‘Object Shift’ means that a weak object pronoun has been raised to a position to the left of a sentence adverbial. Primarily, there are two positions to which a weak object pronoun can be raised; one of them is called Long Object Shift. In this paper, I primarily deal with finite verb frequencies in sentences with Long Object Shift in Swedish. Also, in order to further define the verbs in these sentences I discuss verb semantic and syntactic valence in relation to the shifted object. Furthermore, I discuss the search methods which have generated sentences with Long Object Shift in written sources in Swedish; an equivalent study has never been done before.   The most salient results of my study indicate that: verbs with physical denotation, and specifically vänta, möta and slå, frequently recur in sentences with Long Object Shift in written sources in Swedish; monotransitive verbs appear more often than ditransitive ones; shifted objects are most often assigned the semantic role of experiencer in the studied sentences; the search methods show divergent results, which indicates the significance of sentence adverbial initiating sentences with Long Object Shift. Lastly, the results show that semantic analyses, terminology and search methods need to be extended in order to further define the finite verb in sentences with Long Object Shift in Swedish.

Orientador: Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Nos estágios atuais da língua, as gramáticas brasileiras e portuguesas descrevem o CHAMAR como o único verbo do Português a ter um Predicativo do Objeto Indireto. O problema inicial desta pesquisa surgiu a partir dessa singularidade atribuída ao verbo CHAMAR quando predicador de construções denominativas, e se constitui em compreender quais foram os fatores que levaram o CHAMAR a ter, ao longo do tempo, esse comportamento diferenciado de todos os outros verbos da língua. Assim, o presente trabalho tem por objetivo descrever gramaticalmente o predicador CHAMAR quando este significa "qualificar"; "atribuir um nome, denominar"; "autodenominar-se" e "possuir um nome", tendo como base as narrativas portuguesas escritas nos séculos 14, 15 e 16. As construções com CHAMAR aqui descritas foram denominadas de construções de semântica denominativa e apresentam as seguintes estruturas básicas: [X V (a) Y (de) Z] em construções transitivo-ativas e [Y V-se Z]; [Y V Z] e [V Z] em construções não-transitivas (estativas/passivas), onde X= "Agente" (aquele que "executa a ação" expressa pelo verbo); Y= "Designando", (aquele que recebe a denominação dada); e Z= "Designação" (a denominação propriamente dita). A partir dos questionamentos iniciais levantados, partiu-se para um estudo sobre a valência do CHAMAR quando principal predicador de construções denominativas procurando identificar os padrões de ocorrência dessas construções nos textos. Nos séculos 14 e 15 o CHAMAR convivia com outros predicadores denominativos e estes foram substituídos na diacronia, transformando o CHAMAR no principal predicador de construções denominativas. O CHAMAR denominativo pode ser "qualificativo", i.e., quando atribui uma qualidade; ou "denominativo" propriamente dito, ou seja, quando atribui um nome. As estruturas com CHAMAR "qualificativo" apresentam a Designação (Z) como um adjetivo predicativo e, portanto selecionam como argumento uma Small Clause ("e porém lhe chama a estória filho de perdição" - CGE). Já as estruturas com CHAMAR "denominativo" apresentam a Designação (Z) como um nome próprio ("e por isso lhe chamaram Dom Sancho, o Desejado" - CGE) e, portanto não selecionam uma Small Clause como argumento. Neste tipo de construções o CHAMAR se caracteriza como um verbo de atribuição, tal como DAR, OFERECER, apresentando valência três [Agente] [V] [Designando] [Designação]. As construções transitivo-ativas apresentam como principal padrão de expressão argumental aquele em que o argumento que mais aparece nulo e o Agente (X), e o Designando Y (Objeto) ocupa a posição a esquerda de proeminência discursiva (Y V __ Z), acompanhando dessa forma as principais características da frase na Gramática do Português Médio, defendidas por Paixão de Sousa (2008). A partir desse padrão dos verbos no PM propõe-se que as construções estativas do tipo [Y V Z] ("Ela chama Maria") atestadas atualmente no PB são derivadas das construções ativas do tipo [Y V __ Z] do PM, com o sujeito Agente nulo e o "constituinte discursivamente importante" ocupando a posição imediata a esquerda do verbo, alterando assim a Valencia de CHAMAR de três para dois
Abstract: Current grammar books of both Brazilian and European varieties of Portuguese describe CHAMAR ('call') as the only Portuguese verb having a predicate nominative of an indirect object. The initial problem of this research is to understand which factors have driven CHAMAR to have a differentiated behavior with respect to other verbs of the language because of its singularity as a predicator of denominative constructions. Therefore, the present work aims at grammatically describing predicator CHAMAR when it means "to qualify", "to assign a name, to denominate", "to self-denominate" and "to have a name", based on Portuguese narratives written in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. The constructions with CHAMAR described here were called 'constructions with denominative semantics' and display the following basic structures: [X V (a) Y (de) Z] in active-transitive constructions and [Y V-se Z]; [Y V Z] and [V Z] in non-transitive constructions (stative/passive). Where X= "Agent" (the participant that "executes the action" expressed by the verb), Y= "Designee" (the participant that receives the given denomination) and Z= "Designation" (the actual denomination). After presenting the initial research questions, the text displays the results of a study about the valency of CHAMAR as the main predicator in denominative constructions and tries to identify the distribution patterns of these constructions in the texts. In the 14th and 15th centuries CHAMAR existed along with other denominative predicators, but these ones were substituted in diachrony; as a result, CHAMAR has become the main predicator of denominative constructions. Denominative CHAMAR can be "qualificative", i.e. when it assigns a quality; or properly "denominative", it means, when it assigns a name. The structures with "qualificative" CHAMAR present the Designation (Z) as a predicate adjective and therefore they select a Small Clause as an argument: e porém lhe chama a estória filho de perdição (CGE) ('and however the story calls him the son of perdition'). On the other hand the structures with "denominative" CHAMAR display the designation (Z) as a given name: e por isso lhe chamaram Dom Sancho, o Desejado (CGE) ('and because of that they called him Dom Sancho, the Desired One') and, therefore, they do not select a Small Clause as an argument. In this type of constructions CHAMAR is characterized as a verb of giving, such as DAR ('give') and OFERECER ('offer'), showing valency = 3: [Agent] [V] [Designee] [Designation]. Active-transitive constructions present the following main pattern of argument expression: the Agent (X) is more frequently null, and the Designee Y (Object) occupies a position of discursive prominence to the left (Y V __ Z). In this sense, it follows the main characteristics of the sentence in Middle Portuguese (MP) Grammar, as argued by Paixao de Sousa (2008). From such a pattern in MP we propose that stative constructions of the type [Y V Z] instantiated in Ela chama Maria ('she is called Mary') in nowadays Brazilian Portuguese are derived from active constructions of the type [Y V __ Z] in MP, with the Agent subject null and the "discursively most important constituent" occupying the immediate position to the left of the verb. In this way the valency of CHAMAR was changed from 3 to 2
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Polyvalente Verben koennen mit unterschiedlichen Konstituentenmengen kombiniert sein, wobei deren Zahl und Art variieren. In den meisten Grammatikschulen sind Verben zentral fuer syntaktische Gestalt und semantische Interpretation von Saetzen. Sie bestimmen ueber ihre Subkategorisierungsrahmen, wieviele Komplemente welchen Typs im Satz realisiert werden. Daher ist Polyvalenz ein unerwartetes Phaenomen. Eine Diskussion verschiedener Ansaetze der generativen Grammatik ergibt, dass Subkategorisierung fuer die Erklaerung von Polyvalenz ungeeignet ist. Im zweiten Kapitel wird ein Modell fuer die konzeptuell-semantische Interpretation von Verben und Saetzen entwickelt, das dem Rechnung traegt: In Saetzen mit polyvalenten Verben bedingen die Komplemente des Verbs zusammen mit dem Verb die konzeptuell-semantische Interpretation. Die thematische Interpretation wird als inferentieller Prozess angesehen, der keinen Spezialfall allgemeiner konzeptuell-semantischer Interpretationsprozesse darstellt, sondern vielmehr in diese eingebunden ist.
Polyvalent verbs can be combined with different sets of complements. The variation concerns both number and type of the complements. In most grammar theoretical frameworks, verbs are of crucial importance for the syntactic structure and semantic interpretation of clauses. They determine via subcategorization frames how many complements of which type are realized. Polyvalence is therefore an unexpected phenomenon. A discussion of several approaches in generative grammar results in the claim that subcategorization is not very useful for the explanation of polyvalence. In the second chapter, a model for the conceptual-semantic interpretation of verbs and clauses is developed that takes polyvalence into account: the conceptual-semantic interpretation of clauses with polyvalent verbs is determined by the verb and complements together. Thematic interpretation is viewed as an inferential process that is embedded within the general conceptual-semantic interpretation processes, not their prerequisite.

La présente étude s’inscrit dans le cadre plus vaste de la description des langues de l’aire linguistique Amdo. Cette région est caractérisée par la présence de langues sinitiques, mongoliques, tibétiques et turciques et, pour le salar et le tibétain, une situation de contact linguistique long d’environ sept siècles. Le salar est l’une des langues turciques les moins décrites et elle présente de nombreuses particularités dues à son isolement par rapport aux autres langues turciques. Il n’existe pas non plus de description des variétés de tibétain parlées dans la région salarophone, périphérique dans la tibétosphère. La perspective que nous adoptons ici est donc à la fois descriptive et comparative. Après un exposé des caractéristiques historiques et sociolinguistiques de cette situation de contact, nous analysons de façon détaillée des catégories grammaticales indexées dans le syntagme nominal et dans le prédicat. En particulier, nous proposons une nouvelle analyse des morphèmes de Temps-Aspect-Mode en salar et montrons que cette langue a copié en partie ses catégories évidentielles sur le modèle de celles du tibétain de l’Amdo. Nous nous intéressons ensuite aux problématiques liées à la valence verbale et aux effets du contact linguistique sur l’organisation accusative et ergative qui caractérisent respectivement le salar et le tibétain de l’Amdo. Nous analysons les marques casuelles à la fois comme relateurs, au sein du prédicat verbal, mais également comme converbe ou au sein des formes converbiales. Enfin, nous décrivons les catégories de voix grammaticalisées en salar et en tibétain, et montrons que celles-ci sont quasiment identiques dans les deux langues
This study falls within the larger description of the languages of the Amdo linguistic area. This area is characterized by the coexistence of Sinitic, Mongolic, Tibetic and Turkic languages, and, regarding Salar and Tibetan, an approximately seven-century-long contact situation. Salar language remains one of the less described Turkic languages and, because of its isolation from the other Turkic languages, displays many specificities. There exists no description of the Amdo-Tibetan variety spoken in the Salar-speaking region either, this region being very peripheral in the Tibetosphere. The perspective taken in this study is thus both descriptive and comparative. After a depiction of the historical and sociolinguistic characteristics of this contact-situation, we analyse in detail the grammatical categories indexed in the nominal phrase and in the predicate. Notably, we suggest a new analysis of the Tense-Aspect-Mood morphemes in Salar and we show that the Amdo-Tibetan evidential categories have been partly copied in Salar. Then, the question of verb valency is addressed, and the effects of language contact on the Turkic accusative and on the Tibetic ergative organisation are explored. We analyze the case markers not only as markers of syntactic dependancy within the verb predicate, but also in their role as or in converbs. Finally, we describe the grammatical voices attested in Salar and in Amdo Tibetan, and show that the syntactic and semantic characteristics are almost identical in the two languages

This thesis explores the interrelationship of local grammar, meaning, and translation equivalence, using a case study of the English verb CONSIDER, compared in a monolingual study with its near-synonyms BELIEVE, FEEL and THINK, and in a contrastive analysis with their German translation equivalents. The methodology fuses corpus linguistics and valency grammar, analysing and comparing monolingual and parallel corpora. Corpus investigation is found to be a reliable tool in identifying key translation equivalents and in verifying sentence patterns. Valency theory is argued to be more successful than related approaches in distinguishing between different levels of language analysis. Its flexibility regarding complement categorisation types make it possible to define categories that can be applied to both German and English appropriately in a contrastive study, in spite of the surface differences between the two languages. The findings highlight the problems of investigating the interplay of lexis and grammar in a contrastive context, and indicate that from the perspective of translation, language is much less rule-based and less phraseological than is often assumed. Applications of the research to the field of bilingual lexicography are discussed. Based on the corpus analysis and the valency analysis some sample dictionary entries are proposed.

La notion de valence est très répandue à l’échelle de l’atome et est à l’origine de la diversité et des propriétés des composés covalents (molécules, macromolécules, cristaux). L’un des grands challenges à l’heure actuelle est de décliner cette notion de valence à l’échelle des particules, qui pourraient devenir des briques élémentaires programmées, c’est-à-dire la matière première de nouveaux matériaux qui seraient obtenus par assemblage spontané. Dans ce contexte, nous avons développé des particules à patchs possédant à leur surface des discontinuités chimiques et topologiques permettant de limiter le nombre de particules voisines et d’engendrer des interactions directionnelles avec ces dernières. L’objectif de nos travaux consiste dans un premier temps à imiter les hybridations simples de l’atome de carbone divalent (sp), trivalent (sp2) et tétravalent (sp3). Des particules de silice contenant un nombre spécifique de cavités dans lesquelles se trouvent des chaines de polystyrène ont été synthétisées et fonctionnalisées sélectivement. Des molécules colloïdales constituées d’une particule à patchs, au centre, entourée de nanoparticules satellites en nombre contrôlé ont été obtenues par assemblages covalents ou supramoléculaires. Ces premiers clusters miment la géométrie de molécules simples telles que CF4, BF3, CO2 ou H2O. En différenciant des lots de satellites soit par leur taille, soit par leur composition chimique, nous avons montré qu’il est possible d’étendre la formation de molécules colloïdales vers de structures plus complexes du type AXnYm (n+m = 4) ou encore des molécules colloïdales chirales. Enfin, nous avons développé une autre voie permettant d’obtenir de nouveaux atomes colloïdaux contenant un nombre défini de patchs surfaciques de taille contrôlée
The concept of valence is well-known at the atomic level and is at the origin of the diversity and properties of covalent compounds (molecules, macromolecules, crystals). Nowadays, one of the major challenges is to decline this notion of valence at the scale of colloidal particles, which could become programmed elementary bricks, that is to say the raw material of new materials that would be obtained by spontaneous assembly. In this context, we have developed patchy particles with chemical and topological discontinuities at their surface that limit the number of neighboring particles and induce directional interactions with them. The objective of our work consists first in imitating simple hybridizations of the divalent (sp), trivalent (sp2) and tetravalent (sp3) carbon atoms. The silica particles containing a specific number of cavities in which residues of polystyrene chains are chemically and selectively functionalized. Colloidal molecules consisting of a patchy particle, in the center, surrounded by satellite nanoparticles in controlled number were obtained by covalent or supramolecular routes. These first clusters mimic the geometry of simple molecules such as CF4, BF3, CO2 or H2O. By differentiating batches of satellites either by their size or by their chemical composition, we have shown that it is possible to extend the formation of colloidal molecules to more complex AXnYm (n + m = 4) structures or chiral colloidal molecules. Finally, we have developed another way to obtain new colloidal atoms containing a precise number of surface patches with a controlled area

The present paper is an attempt to examine the restriction (determination) of the Process by circumstantial elements. Although the Process can be used absolutely, more often than not it is accompanied by other elements – non-circumstantial (objective complements) and circumstantial. The choice of a circumstantial element is mostly determined by the type of Process, tense and aspect. Two types of circumstantial elements are distinguished: 1) non-specific (i.e. circumstantial elements common to all Process types); 2) specific (i.e. circumstantial elements peculiar to a Process type).

La tesi è divisa in tre parti: la prima parte offre un panorama delle principali teorie della valenza sviluppate in Francia e in Italia, con particolare attenzione allo statuto sintattico dei complementi preposizionali (argomenti o aggiuntivi); la seconda parte presenta lo studio contrastivo di 103 verbi francesi tratti dal "Dictionnaire de la Complémentation Verbale" di Salkoff-Valli (in preparazione); la terza parte presenta lo studio contrastivo di due gruppi preposizionali francesi di particolare interesse traduttivo: "de N" con valore di causa e "contre N".
This Thesis is divided into three parts : the first one gives an overview of the main valency theories, which have been developed in France and Italy, particularly paying attention to the problem of prepositional complements ambiguity (objects or modifiers of the verb) ; second part proposes a contrastive study of 103 French verbs, taken from Dictionnaire de la Complémentation verbale of Salkoff-Valli (in progress); third part proposes a contrastive study of two French prepositional phrases "de N" indicating a cause, and "contre N", object or specific modifier of the verb , very interesting topic under the point of view of the translation into Italian.

Dans l'optique d'une integration future de composes a valence mixte du ruthenium dans des elements de base assurant un traitement moleculaire du signal, trois points precis sont developpes: l'etude d'un nouveau compose a valence mixte ponte par un ligand chelatant: l'acide 2,3 pyrazine-dicarboxylique; l'etude theorique du processus de commutation dans un complexe ponte par la 4,4 bipyridine; l'influence de l'isomerisation d'un ligand portant sur le couplage electronique; l'etude de l'effet de l'augmentation de la distance intermetallique sur l'interaction electronique intersite

Des dendrimères à cœur aromatique ayant des propriétés originales en électronique moléculaire ont été synthétisés pour des applications en tant que batteries moléculaires avec des systèmes redox robustes et pour la thérapie anti-cancer par capture de neutrons. Le premier thème a été focalisé sur les dendrimères à terminaison métallocénique ou bimétallocénique avec la recherche des propriétés électroniques y compris la stabilisation de valence mixte avec application pour la synthèse de nanoparticules métalliques contrôlée par le potentiel redox. Le second thème a impliqué la synthèse de dendrimères ayant des terminaisons carborane en collaboration avec le groupe du Prof. N. Hosmane de Chicago. Pour les deux thèmes, les assemblages ont été réalisés par réaction “click“ de type Huisguen entre des azotures terminaux des dendrimères et les alcynes terminaux. Les dendrimères ont été caractérisés à la fois à l'aide de techniques spectroscopiques et analytiques traditionnelles et à l'aide de techniques propres aux macromolécules (chromatographie d'exclusion stérique, RMN DOESY, diffusion de lumière dynamique). Le concept de base commun aux deux thèmes consiste à utiliser la topologie dendritique de grands dendrimères pour concentrer dans un nano-espace minimum une quantité élevée d'électrons pour les batteries moléculaires ou d'atomes de bore dont la densité est essentielle pour l'efficacité de la thérapie anti-cancer par capture de neutrons
Dendrimers with aromatic core with original properties in molecular electronics have been synthesized for applications as molecular batteries with robust redox systems and the anti-cancer therapy by neutron capture. The first theme was focused on metallocene-terminated or bimetallocenyl dendrimers with the research of electronic properties including the stabilization of mixed valence with application for the synthesis of metal nanoparticles controlled by the redox potential. The second theme concerned the synthesis of dendrimers with carborane termini in collaboration with the Chicago group of Prof. N. Hosman. For both subjects, the connections have been made by "click" reaction of type Huisguen between alkynes and dendrimer terminals azides. The dendrimers were characterized at a time using traditional analytical and spectroscopic techniques and using own techniques to macromolecules (size exclusion chromatography, DOESY NMR, dynamic light scattering). The basic concept common to both themes is the use of dendritic topology of large dendrimers to concentrate in a nano-space at least a high amount of electrons to molecular batteries or boron atoms whose density is essential for efficiency of the anti-cancer therapy by neutron capture

Os prefixos germânicos de alguns verbos suecos serão comparados numa análise contrastiva com as relativas equivalências em português e em italiano num corpus paralelo escrito composto por um romance de língua sueca, um de língua portuguesa e um de língua italiana e pelas suas respectivas traduções. As funções desenvolvidas pelos prefixos germânicos dos verbos suecos analisados serão examinadas e depois confrontadas com as relativas equivalências, com o resultado que também nas duas línguas românicas relevam-se, de maneira bastante constante, procedimentos gramaticais parecidos aos desenvolvidos pelos prefixos germânicos.
Germanic prefixes of which some Swedish verbs are composed are going to be compared in acontrastive analysis with their relative equivalences in Portuguese and Italian in a parallel written corpus characterized by a Swedish-language romance, a Portuguese-language romance and an Italian language romance, and by their relative translations. The functions executed by the German prefixes of the analysed Swedish verbs are going to be examined and then compared with their relative equivalences, with the result that even in the Romance languages it is possible to find in a quite constant way grammatical processes which are similar to those executed by the Germanic prefixes.
I prefissi germanici di alcuni verbi svedesi saranno comparati in un'analisi contrastiva con le relative equivalenze in portoghese e in italiano in un corpus parallelo scritto composto da un romanzo di lingua svedese, uno di lingua portoghese e uno di lingua italiana e dalle rispettive traduzioni. Le funzioni svolte dai prefissi germanici dei verbi svedesi analizzati saranno esaminate e poi confrontate con le relative equivalenze, con il risultato che anche nelle due lingue romanze si riscontrano in maniera abbastanza costante processi grammaticali simili a quelli svolti dai prefissi germanici.
De germanska prefix som återfinns i vissa svenska verb kommer att jämföras med sina motsvarigheter på portugisiska och italienska. Detta görs med hjälp av en skriven korpus bestående av en roman ursprungligen skriven på svenska, en skriven på portugisiska och en skriven på italienska samt översättningar av dessa romaner till de två andra språken. Funktionen hos de svenska verben med germanska prefix kommer att analyseras och sedan jämföras med verbens motsvarigheter. Resultatet av analysen visar att det är möjligt att finna systematiskt återkommande grammatiska processer i de romanska språken, som liknar de som förekommer i samband med de germanska prefixen på svenska.

PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Na descrição do português do Brasil, as expressões adverbiais locativas de origem e de meta, exigidas pela valência de verbos de movimento tetravalentes, apresentam peculiaridades quanto à realização nos enunciados. Neste trabalho, a análise realizada é de caráter qualitativo, com base nas propostas da gramática de valências. Examina a possibilidade de realização de cada argumento citado e as motivações, os efeitos gerados na sua relação com os verbos de que dependem. Os locativos que indicam meta e que complementam o quarto espaço dos verbos de movimento/direção possuem freqüência maior de realização, quando os verbos inferem transferência de lugar. Este trabalho considera o valor das preposições que acompanham os complementos e os advérbios que indicam o espaço dêitico.
In the description of the Brazilian Portuguese, the valency of verbs of movement opens four spaces which are fullfilled by adverbial expressions considered locatives of origen and goal. These expressions present peculiarities regarding the realization in utterances. Based on the proposals of the valency grammar, an analysis of qualitative aspect was provided aiming to examine the possibility of realization of each argument mentioned and the motivations and results generated in their relationship with the verbs on which they depend. The locatives that indicate goal and complement the fourth space of the verbs of movement / direction occur more often when these verbs infer location transferance. This dissertation considers the value of prepositions that accompany the complements and the adverbs that indicate the deitic space.

The research presented in this dissertation adopts an empirical Saussurean structuralist approach to elucidating the true meaning of the verb patterns characterised formally by vowel lengthening in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The verbal system as a whole is examined in order to place the patterns of interest (III and VI) in context, the complexities of Arabic verbal morphology are explored and the challenges revealed by previous attempts to draw links between form and meaning are presented. An exhaustive dictionary survey is employed to provide quantifiable data to empirically test the largely accepted view that the vowel lengthening patterns have mutual/reciprocal meaning. Finding the traditional explanation inadequate and prone to too many exceptions, alternative commonalities of meaning are similarly investigated. Whilst confirming the detransitivising function of the ta- prefix which derives pattern VI from pattern III, analysis of valency data also precludes transitivity as a viable explanation for pattern III meaning compared with the base form. Examination of formally similar morphology in certain nouns leads to the intuitive possibility that vowel lengthening has aspectual meaning. A model of linguistic aspect is investigated for its applicability to MSA and used to isolate the aspectual feature common to the majority of pattern III and pattern VI verbs, which is determined to be atelicity. A set of verbs which appear to be exceptional in that they are not attributable to atelic aspectual categories is found to be characterised by inceptive meaning and a three-phase model of event time structure is developed to include an inceptive verbal category, demonstrating that these verbs too are atelic. Thus the form-meaning relationship which is discovered is that the vowel lengthening verbal patterns in Modern Standard Arabic have atelic aspectual meaning.

Fondé sur le double constat de l'abandon des activités proto-industrielles des garrigues boisées et de l'introduction, quelque quarante années plus tard, de Quercus ilex L. en milieu urbain, ce travail de recherche révèle, grâce à l'analyse des politiques de gestion du patrimoine arboré de Montpellier (France), Firenze (Italie) et Valencia (Espagne), les dynamiques territoriales impliquées par l'évolution statutaire des arbres, et du chêne vert en particulier. Les nouvelles fonctions ornementales et culturelles qui sont attribuées à cette espèce, désormais argument et instrument du développement durable, s'associent, jusqu'à parfois les masquer, aux fonctions originelles, nourricières et forestières. Si l'arbre, révélateur des mutations territoriales successives, s'impose comme l'un des marqueurs privilégiés des paysages méditerranéens, le chêne vert s'inscrit quant à lui comme un élément moteur de nouvelles territorialités de la Méditerranée nord-occidentale.

In Norstedts Comprehensive English-Swedish Dictionary (2000) it is said that the numbered list of senses under each headword is frequency ordered. Thus, the aim of this study is to see whether this frequency order of senses agrees with the frequencies appearing in the British National Corpus (BNC). Five English, polysemous verbs were studied. For each verb, a simple search in the corpus was carried out, displaying 50 random occurrences. Each collocate was encoded with the most compatible sense from the numbered list of senses in the dictionary. The encoded tokens were compiled and listed in frequency order. This list was compared to the dictionary's list of senses. Only two of the verbs reached agreement between the highest ranked dictionary sense and the most frequent sense in the BNC simple search. None of the verbs' dictionary orders agreed completely with the emerged frequency order of the corpus occurrences, why complementary collocational learning is advocated.

Les comportements orientés vers un but sont complexes et font appel à un grand nombre de processus cérébraux. Le cortex préfrontal médian (mPFC) apparaît comme une structure clef dans la réalisation de ces comportements de par son rôle dans la planification. De plus, il existe au sein du mPFC des cellules signalant les lieux à forte valeur motivationnelle. L’activité de ces neurones pourrait être essentielle à la mise en place d’un comportement spatial dirigé vers un but. S’orienter vers un but nécessite aussi la construction d’une représentation stable de l’environnement, qui repose sur l’activité de l’hippocampe (HPC). Néanmoins, peu de travaux ont analysé le rôle respectif de ces deux structures, et leurs interactions, lors de l’acquisition et de la consolidation d’une stratégie comportementale orientée vers un but. L’objectif des recherches réalisées au cours de ma thèse est donc d’étudier l’implication de l’hippocampe et du cortex préfrontal médian du rat dans ce processus. Notre première étude a montré l’existence d’un codage prospectif au sein des neurones du mPFC durant la réalisation d’une tâche de mémoire de travail.L’activité des neurones signale à la fois, la séquence temporelle comportementale, et l’anticipation de la récompense, et jouerait ainsi un rôle dans les fonctions exécutives. Dans la deuxième étude, nous nous sommes intéressés aux structures cérébrales impliquées dans la mise à jour de la valence du but ainsi que dans sa rétention à long terme. Nos résultats ont montré que l’inactivation de l’hippocampe intermédiaire provoque des déficits dans le traitement à court terme d’un changement de valence. En revanche, l’inactivation du mPFC empêche le stockage à long terme de ce changement. L’activité de ces deux structures serait donc essentielle pour effectuer une mise à jour en temps réel de la valence d’un but et pour sa consolidation en mémoire à long terme. Leur interaction permettrait d’adapter rapidement et de façon durable la stratégie comportementale de l’animal face aux changements de l’environnement
Goal-directed behaviors are complex and involve a variety of cognitive processes. Medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) plays a key role in behavioral planning. More over, cells in the rat mPFC show specific firing modulations at location with a high motivational value. Such neuronal activity could be essential for the setting up installation of a goal-directed behavior. Further more, navigating to a spatial goal requires the building of a stable presentation of the environment which is hippocampus-dependent. So far however, only few studies have addressed the respective role of these two structures, and their interaction, during the acquisition and the consolidation of a goal directed-behavior. The work conducted during my PhD thesis aimed at studying the role of hippocampus and prefrontal cortex in this process. In a first study,we showed the existence of a prospective coding by mPFC neurons when the rat performs a working memory task. Neuronal activity signals both, the temporal sequence of the behavior, and the prediction of reward. These neurons would play a role inexecutive functions. In a second study, we focused on cerebral structures involved in the updating of the value of a goal as well as in its long-term retention. Our results showed that the inactivation of the intermediate hippocampus causes deficit in the short-term processing of a change in the goal value. On the other hand, the inactivation of the mPFC prevents long-term consolidation of this change. Integrity of this two structures would therefore be essential to perform an on-line updating of the goal value and for its long-term consolidation. Their interaction would be necessary to rapidly adapt, and in a lasting manner, the behavioral strategy of the animal when it faces an environmental change

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A maioria dos gramáticos acolhe os verbos em duas sessões: uma que trata de aspectos morfológicos; em seguida, dentro de uma perspectiva sintático-semântica, que aborda os verbos quanto à predicação. Isso se configura um problema nesse modelo de análise, visto que, ao considerar os verbos como elementos discretos, em frases descontextualizadas, não se consideram as relações morfológicas, sintáticas, semânticas, pragmáticas e discursivas que só podem ser observadas a partir da língua em uso, dentro do jogo combinatório da linguagem. A partir dessas considerações, a concepção de língua que adotamos se coaduna com aquela proposta pelo Funcionalismo, que defende os estudos de fenômenos linguísticos a partir da análise das estruturas em uso real, priorizando as relações que se estabelecem no contexto comunicativo. Igualmente importante, foi o estudo da estrutura argumental da oração, formada pelo verbo e seus selecionados elementos obrigatórios (argumentos). Com relação aos verbos que serão objeto da pesquisa, orientamo-nos pela classificação realizada por Azeredo (2004, p.180), baseada na proposta de estudo de Cano Aguilar (1981) para a língua espanhola, que arrolou o grupo de verbos codificadores de extensão ou escala no português, entre eles: atravessar, percorrer, subir, abraçar, presidir, contornar, ocupar, preencher, inundar, medir 1 (ele mediu um terreno), medir 2 (o terreno mede 160 m), valer e durar (a viagem durou 80 dias). Em nossa pesquisa, analisaremos a transitividade de um recorte desse grupo, composto pelos verbos subir, ocupar, medir, durar, valer e seu uso na língua portuguesa, que, juntamente com a escolha do referencial teórico, justificam a importância deste estudo, visto que esse fenômeno é mais bem observado em condições reais de comunicação. O corpus é constituído de textos do âmbito jornalístico escrito e o levantamento de dados foi realizado por meio de ferramenta de pesquisa on-line no acervo digital da Revista Veja. Esperamos que o resultado desta pesquisa evidencie que um estudo que tenha como ponto de partida a língua em uso vá muito além das proposições das gramáticas
The most of grammarians welcome verbs in two sessions, namely: the first that deals with morphological aspects, then within a syntactic-semantic perspective, which deals with verbs as the predication. This creates the problem of proposal analysis, given that when considering verbs as discrete elements in non-contextualized sentences, the relationships are not considered morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discoursive that can only be observed from the language in use, in game combinatorial language. From these considerations, the design language we adopt is consistent with that proposed by functionalism, which advocates the study of linguistic phenomena from the analysis of the structures in actual use, prioritizing the relationships established in the communicative context. Equally important was the study of argument structure of sentence, formed by the verb and its selected elements required (arguments). With respect to verbs that will be the object of research, we look to the classification performed by Azeredo (2004, p.180), based on the study proposal of Cano Aguilar (1981) for the Spanish language, that enrolled a group of verbs encoders of extent or scale in Portuguese, among them: cross, roam, rise, embrace, preside, contour, occupy, fill, flood, measure 1 (he measured a piece of land), measure 2 (the land measures 160 m), earn and last (the trip lasted 80 days). In our research, we analyze the transitivity of a clipping of this group, consisting of the verbs rise, occupy, measure, last, earn and their use in the Portuguese language, which, together with the choice of theoretical, justify the importance of this study, since this phenomenon is best observed in real communication. The corpus is composed of texts within the journalistic writing and data collection was conducted through a research tool on-line in digital collection of Veja Magazine. We hope that the result of this research it is clear that a study has as starting point the language used go far beyond the propositions of grammars

Verb valency plays an important role in the description of behaviour of verbs and connects surface realisation of language with its semantics. Verb itself usually encodes several readings. Complementations of a verb help to identify correct reading of the verb. So far valency verb complementations are mostly studied from morphological and syntactical point of view. The purpose of this thesis is to examine possibilities of automatic identification of semantic preferences for valency complementations of verbs. The thesis discusses performance of system with different levels of available verb valency information in connection with cluster analysis. The thesis contains an evaluation section that compares available methods and their comparision.

Verbal government of Russian and Czech verbs. Determination of basic conception of rection, bilinguism, interference, transfer, homonymy. The acquirement of foreign language difficulties. Preventing interference. The influence of transfer. Left-valency and right-valency actant. Competition of binding. Russian - Czech dictionary. Error analysis. Contrastive analysis.

Verbal Valency in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective Jana Šindlerová Abstract In the thesis, we look upon differences in argument structure of verbs considering the Czech language and the English language. In the first part, we describe the process of building the CzEngVallex lexicon. In the second part, based on the aligned data of the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank, we compare the valencies of verbal translation equivalents and comment of their differences. We classify the differences according to their underlying causes. The causes can be based in the linguistic structure of the languages, they can include translatological reasons, or they can be grounded in the character of the descriptive linguistic theory used.

The topic of my diploma work is the analysis of verbal valence in the Czech textbook "Německy s úsměvem" ("German with a Smile"). The theoretical part is dealing with the verbal valence first, examining the verb as a part of speech and the valence itself. It deals with grammar from the DaF-point of view (DaF = teaching German as foreign language). The theoretical part is closed by a brief characteristic of exercise typology with selected exercise types for the valence practise. The main point of the work is the analysis of the verbal valence ? excerption, presentation and practice of verbal valence in the selected part of the textbook. The results of individual parts of the analysis are evaluated and statistically processed then. The analysis is followed by the list of problems detected with my own solution.

The diploma thesis explores whether the complementation of infinitives and gerunds, functioning as subject clauses, is different. Expecially it compares syntactic structures, relative length and complexity of the complementations and their roles in functional sentence perspective (whether elements are rather thematic or rhematic etc.). Furthemore it explores whether the form of complementation is affected by the position of infinitive of gerund, it means if there is any difference between the complementations of non-finite verb in initial position and extraposition. The research is based on the relevant academic writing and on authentic instances of gerunds and infinitives from the present sources of literature.

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Twee sentrale probleme word hier ondersoek, naamlik die daarstelling van 'n teoreties adekwate model om leksikale valensie te verreken en die problematiek rondom die beskrywing van Afrikaanse bewegingswerkwoorde. Die vertrekpunt is dat 'n teorie van UG lesikale valensie slegs ten dele verreken. So 'n teorie is gemoeid met die vorm van 'n konstruksie wat op LF-vlak leesbaar is. Gevolglik beskryf 'n teorie van UG valensie net in universele sintakties-kategoriale terme. In hierdie studie word die semantiese en pragmatiese komponente van 'n valensieteorie derhalwe uitgebou sodat daar 'n duideliker begrip verkry kan word van die wisselwerking tussen alle veranderlikes van valensie op 'n taalspesifieke LF-vlak. 'n Valensieteorie word op eklektiese wyse saamgestel uit verskeie ander teoriee. Die apparaat om die sintaktiese komponent van 'n valensieteorie te beskryf, word aan TGGmodelle ontleen. Die semantiese komponent van die teorie word aangevul vanuit die Konseptuele Semantiek en die pragmatiese komponent daarvan vanui t kogni ti ewe grammatikamodelle. Die interaksie tussen hierdie komponente word verreken deur teoriee van leksikalisasie, korrespondensiereels en die passing tussen konstruksies en leksikale items. Die ontleding van Afrikaanse bewegingswerkwoorde spesif iseer die omvattender anali tiese apparaat wat nodig is vir die verrekening van valensie verby die punt waarvoor 'n teorie van UG voorsiening maak. Dit blyk uit hierdie analise dat die valensie van die kategorie in 'n aantal valensieraambeskrywings vir die aparte subklasse saamgevat kan word. 'n Duidelike beeld van die universele en taalspesifiekidiosinkratiese aspekte van hierdie kategorie kan in terme van hierdie valensierame aangetoon word. 'n Verdere hipotese (die onakkusatiwiteithipotese) is dat die sintaktiese verspreiding van werkwoorde ui t hulle semantiek voorspel kan word. Hierdie hipotese word getoets aan die empiriese data van Afrikaanse bewegingswerkwoorde. Hierdie bewegingswerkwoorde word in groepe geklassifiseer na gelang van ooreenstemmende semanties-pragmatiese kenmerke. Daar word getoon dat bewegingswerkwoorde met dieself de semantiespragmatiese kenmerke dieselfde valensierame het. Valensierame is daarom op sistematiese wyse uit semanties-pragmatiese kenmerke afleibaar. Sekere fasette van valensierame word egter ook bepaal deur konvensies soos profilering, en deur bereelde interaksie met 'n basiese konstruksie se argumentstruktuur.
This thesis focuses on the development of a theoretically adequate model to account for lexical valence and to provide the detail for such a model by means of an analysis of Afrikaans verbs of motion. The thesis is a response to a theory of UG which inadequately accounts for lexical valence. A theory of UG is concerned with the universal syntactic form of a construction that is legible on LF level. It therefore describes valence in universal syntactic-categorial terms only. This thesis develops the semantic and pragmatic components of a theory of valence in order that a clearer understanding may be gained of the interaction between all the variables of valence on a language specific LF level. A theory of valence is construed eclectically from several other theories. TGG models provide the methods used to describe the syntactic component of a theory of valence. Conceptual Semantics contributes to the development of the semantic component, and models of cognitive grammar to the pragmatic component. The interaction between these components is explained by theories of lexicalisation, rules of correspondence and the fusion of constructions and lexical items. The analysis of Afrikaans verbs of motion provides the comprehensive set of analytical devices required to account for valence beyond the point of LF. From this analysis it emerges that the valence of this category can be summarized in a finite number of frames of valence for distinct classes within the category. 'n Clear understanding of the universal and language specific aspects of this category is achieved by means of these frames of valence. A further hypothesis (the unaccusativity hypothesis) posits that the syntactic distribution of verbs can be predicted from their semantics. This hypothesis is tested by means of empirical data of Afrikaans verbs of motion. These verbs are classified according to similar semantic-pragmatic features. It is shown that verbs of motion with the same semanticpragmatic features share frames of valence. These frames thus are deducible systematically from semantic-pragmatic features. Certain aspects of frames of valence, however, are determined by conventions such as profiling and the regulated interaction between verbs and constructions.
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D.Litt. et Phil. (Afrikaans)

Semantic analysis has become a bottleneck of many natural language applications. Machine translation, automatic question answering, dialog management, and others rely on high quality semantic analysis. Verbs are central elements of clauses with strong influence on the realization of whole sentences. Therefore the semantic analysis of verbs plays a key role in the analysis of natural language. We believe that solid disambiguation of verb senses can boost the performance of many real-life applications. In this thesis, we investigate the potential of statistical disambiguation of verb senses. Each verb occurrence can be described by diverse types of information. We investigate which information is worth considering when determining the sense of verbs. Different types of classification methods are tested with regard to the topic. In particular, we compared the Naive Bayes classifier, decision trees, rule-based method, maximum entropy, and support vector machines. The proposed methods are thoroughly evaluated on two different Czech corpora, VALEVAL and the Prague Dependency Treebank. Significant improvement over the baseline is observed.

Yuning Shen’s study deals with transitivity and verb valency in Kiswahili using a corpus-based approach. The author relates the methods used and results with previous studies dealing with the same topic, namely Whiteley (1968), Abdulaziz (1996) and Olejarnik (2005). He uses the meta-function-rank-matrix (MF/R) from Chinese to point out the fallacy of adopting such a matrix from one language and imposing it on another. Using the parts of speech annotation TreeTagger (Schmid 1994, 1995) to examine previous verb classifications, the author discusses the divergent use of concepts such as verb radicals, verb stems and verb bases as used in different theoretical approaches.
Kitabu hiki cha Yuning Shen kinahusu uelekezi na mpangilio wa vitenzi katika lugha ya Kiswahili kwa kutumia mkabala wenye msingi wa kopasi ya kiisimu. Mwandishi anazihusisha mbinu zilizotumika na matokeo yake na kazi za utafiti zilizotangulia zilizoshughulikia mada hiyo yaani Whiteley (1968), Abdulaziz (1996), na Olejarnik (2005). Shen anatumia mkabala wa mpangilio wa viwango tofauti vya matumizi ya lugha (meta-function-rank-matrix, MF/R) iliyotumika kwa utafiti wa lugha ya Kichina kwa ajili ya kuonesha udhaifu wa mkabala huo kwani unaiga mfumo unaofanya kazi katika lugha moja na kuutumia kwa lugha nyingine bila kuzingatia kuwa lugha ni tofauti. Kwa kutumia njia ya matawi ya kutenganisha vipashio vya maneno (TreeTagger) iliyobuniwa na Schmid (1994, 1995) kwa lengo la kuchunguza njia za awali za kuainisha vitenzi, mwandishi anayajadili matumizi yanayotofautiana ya dhana mbalimbali kama vile viini vya vitenzi, mashina ya vitenzi, na mizizi ya vitenzi jinsi ambavyo zimetumika katika mikabala mbalimbali ya kinadharia.

This research aims to find out whether and to what extent the valency of psych-verbs influences the word order in the Dutch sentence. Valency is defined as the ability of a verb to bind a number of elements in order to form a grammatically correct sentence. However, valency has to be seen not only from the syntactic, but also from the semantic point of view. In other words, we are not only interested in the number of elements a verb requires, but also in the semantic features of these elements. It has been noted by a number of linguists that certain verbs allow for the nominal subject to be placed behind the nominal direct or indirect object in the middle field of the Dutch sentence, i.e. between the finite verb and the final verb cluster in the main clause or between the complementizer and the verb cluster in the subordinate clause. This is contrary to the tendency to put nominal subject before the nominal object in the middle field. Most of the verbs described to behave in this manner are called psych-verbs or psychological verbs. These verbs refer to a situation in which an animate entity is subject to a change of psychological state. The analysis of sentences with psych-verbs has shown that animacy is the most important factor to influence word order in the middle field, followed by the...

This dissertation provides an account of an often-noted change in the history of French: the shift in the expression of the internal argument of a small class of dynamic two-place verbs best represented by aider ‘to help’ from “dative”, i.e., as an indirect object with the preposition à, to “accusative”, i.e., as a direct object with no preposition. The change does not appear to be correlated with a change in the meaning of the verbs. Traditional commentators have viewed it as random, affecting only a few lexical items, rather than systematic. One of the central results of this thesis is that the valency change affects a class of some twenty verbs at approximately the same period and it follows the same time course. Moreover, three properties distinguish this class of verbs from all others taking indirect objects in French: following current ideas about the syntactic manifestation of verbs and their arguments, they have a non relational argument structure, they do not possess lexical directionality, and they select for first or third order entities. These facts suggest that a structural change underlies the change in the realization of the internal argument. Adopting Lightfoot’s (1999, 2006) “cue-based” approach to language change, it is proposed that the valency change is a result of the loss of a functional item encoding directionality. Directionality is a derived property in Medieval French, available in particular to prepositions. It is demonstrated that when à was able to encode direction, it was also able to license first and third order complements in a broader range of contexts, namely, with aider-type verbs. The loss of this functional item is also correlated with several other structural changes that occurred in the 16th and 17th century.

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輔仁大學
德國語文學系
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Valence, the ability of verbs to demand further places in the sentence, can be researched from three aspects, the logical, semantic and syntactic aspects. The logical- semantic valence ist universal, however the syntactic valence is possibly different from language to language. Thus this thesis aims to find out the same and different places of the syntactic valence of Verbs of giving in German and in Chinese. This thesis is divided into five chapters.Chapter one explains the topic, goal and structure of this study. Chapter two introduces the development of the valence theory, the logical-semantic valence and the logical-semantic valence of Verbs of giving. Chapter three is the collection and the classification of verbs of giving in German and in Chinese.In process of the classification some problems are observed. The method of classification of Gansel(1992) can not fit all the verbs of giving in German and in Chinese.Therefore this thesis amends it and provides the method, that is suitable for all the verbs of giving in German and in Chinese. In chapter four all German and Chinese giving-verbs are classified by the method the thesis provides in order to find out German and Chinese verbs, which are corresponding in logical-semantic aspect. As regards what correspond the thesis makes the comparison of the syntactic valence; as to those, which have no corresponding words, the thesis provides possible expressive ways. In chapter five the results of comparison of the syntactic valence are summarized.

In this thesis, we provide an adequate lexicographic representation of lexical-semantic conversion. Under the term lexical-semantic conversion, the relation between semantically similar syntactic structures which are based on separate lexical units of the same verb lexeme is understood. These relations are associated with various changes in valency structure of verbs - they may involve a number of valency complementations, their type, obligatoriness as well as morphemic forms. These changes arise from differences in the mapping of situational participants onto valency complementations. On the basis of semantic and syntactic analysis of two types of Czech lexical- semantic conversions, the locative conversion and the conversion Bearer of action-Location, we propose to represent lexical units creating syntactic variants in the relation of lexical semantic conversion by separate valency frames stored in the data component of the lexicon. The special attribute -conv whose value is a type of lexical-semantic conversion is assigned to relevant valency frames. Then the rule component of the lexicon consists of general rules determining changes in the correspondence between situational participants and valency complementations. This proposal is primarily designed for the valency lexicon of Czech verbs, VALLEX....

[ES] Espai Verd, obra del estudio de arquitectura CSPT bajo la dirección de Antonio Cortés Ferrando, es una singular edificación situada en el barrio de Benimaclet, Valencia, diseñada a comienzos de la década de los años 80 y finalizada a mediados de los años 90. El proyecto, que nació como una idea entre amigos sobre materializar un conjunto de chalets con jardín dispuestos en altura, se nutre de diferentes referentes y estrategias geométricas para encajar sus viviendas en el espacio. La combinación de sus múltiples elementos constructivos vistos, como su colosal estructura de hormigón armado, junto a la introducción de una profusa vegetación como parte intrínseca del edificio, sin lugar a dudas, dotan a esta obra de un interés arquitectónico digno de objeto de estudio. En la actualidad, numerosos colectivos académicos y profesionales han comenzado a mostrar un creciente interés por difundir esta edificación, dadas sus peculiares características. Existen diferentes publicaciones y exposiciones que aportan ciertos detalles de la obra, pero todos ellos desde un carácter divulgativo, sin llegar a profundizar en el proceso arquitectónico y de ejecución. El trabajo parte por recopilar el mayor número de documentación y datos posible respecto a su diseño y materialización, y así poder analizar y establecer una serie de conclusiones que den lugar al primer documento formal sobre Espai Verd. La Valencia de los años 80, el auge del cooperativismo, el desarrollo profesional de CSPT y de Cortés, y conceptos como el brutalismo, las megaestructuras o la arquitectura modular en el espacio, son algunos de los factores que influyeron profundamente en el diseño y materialización de esta obra. En este sentido, referentes como Habitat 67, Montreal, Canadá, de Moshe Safdie o la arquitectura modular del estudio de arquitectura GO-DB, en el que Cortés y el resto de integrantes de CSPT estuvieron formándose profesionalmente, resultan claves para entender este tipo de arquitectura. El proyecto se basa en la utilización de tres piezas o tipologías de viviendas, de una planta, dúplex y tríplex, que introduce dentro de en una retícula de 6 x 6 m para combinarlas mediante diferentes estrategias de diseño como el escalonamiento o la simetría. Los espacios intermedios, resultantes de la combinación espacial entre las viviendas, originan generosos espacios de relación y múltiples dotaciones que son fundamentales en el desarrollo social y vivencial del hábitat. De igual modo, el empleo de la vegetación como extensión natural de la vivienda mejora las condiciones medio ambientales, y supone la necesaria desvinculación de los ejes con respecto de la trama urbana, a favor del mejor asoleo posible. La espacialidad de sus crujías y las grandes cargas que implican la implantación del terreno vegetal en los forjados traen como resultado la singularización de la estructura, nada convencional para un edificio de carácter residencial. En este sentido, a través de la distinta documentación recopilada para la ejecución de la obra se puede apreciar la complejidad y el detalle en los diferentes sistemas constructivos empleados, en los que destaca su parte estructural. Por tanto, la exposición y análisis de la mayor información posible recabada sobre Espai Verd han permitido desvelar los criterios y estrategias de proyecto utilizados, con los que establecer unas reflexiones sobre todo el proceso arquitectónico de esta obra. En consecuencia, su singularidad e interés patrimonial, deberían ser estudiados para su inclusión dentro del catálogo de Bienes de Relevancia Local, con lo que garantizar y preservar este particular hábitat sostenible.
[EN] Espai Verd, work of the CSPT studio architectural lead by Antonio Cortés Ferrando, is a singular building located in the neighbourhood of Benimaclet, Valencia. It was designed in the beginning of the 1980s and was finished in the mid-1990s. The project, wich came at a gathering held by Cortés, where he was asked to make houses with gardens, like chalets, arranged in height, is nourished by different references and geometric strategies to fit their dwellings in space. Its multiple constructive elements seen, such as the colossal reinforced concrete structure, combined with the integration of profuse vegetation, give this building an architectural interest worthy of study. Currently, numerous academic and professional groups have begun to show increasing interest in this building due to its peculiar characteristics. There are different publications and exhibitions that provide certain details of the work, but all of them from an informative nature, without delving into the architectural and construction process. The research starts by collecting as much documentation and data as possible about its design and construction to analyze, and thus establish a series of conclusions that obtain the first formal document of Espai Verd. Valencia of the 80s, the rise of cooperativism, the professional development of CSPT and Cortés, and concepts such as brutalism, megastructures or modular architecture in space, are some of the factors that profoundly influenced the design and materialization of this work. In this sense, references such as Habitat 67, Montreal, Canada, by Moshe Safdie or the modular architecture of the GO-DB architecture studio, in which Cortés and the rest of the CSPT members did profesional practices, are key to understanding this type of architecture. The project is based on the use of three pieces or types of houses, one floor, duplex and triplex, inserted inside a 6 x 6 m layout to combine them using different design strategies such as stair shape or symmetry. The intermediate spaces, result of the spatial combination between the dwellings, create generous spaces for relationships and recreation that are essential in the social development of the habitat. Likewise, the use of vegetation as a natural extension of the houses improves environmental conditions, and implies the necessary separation of the axes from the urban plan, in favor of the best possible sunlight. The spatiality and the great loads that the implantation of the vegetal topsoil suppose the singularity of the structure, which is not conventional for a residential building. In this way, through the different documentation collected for the construction of the building, the complexity and detail in the different construction systems are shown, in which its structural part stands out. Therefore, the compilation and analysis of as much information as possible gathered about Espai Verd have revealed the criteria and project strategies used, with which to establish reflections on the architectural process of this work. Consequently, its singularty and patrimonial interest should be studied for its inclusion in the catalog of Bienes de Relevancia Local (Valencia), to guarantee and preserve this particular sustainable habitat.
[CA] Espai Verd, obra de l'estudi d'arquitectura CSPT sota la direcció d'Antonio Cortés Ferrando, és una singular edificació situada en el barri de Benimaclet, València, dissenyada al començament de la dècada dels anys 80 i finalitzada a mitjan anys 90. El projecte, que va nàixer com una idea entre amics sobre materialitzar un conjunt de xalets amb jardí disposats en altura, es nodreix de diferents referents i estratègies geomètriques per a encaixar els seus habitatges en l'espai. La combinació dels seus múltiples elements constructius vistos, com la seua colossal estructura de formigó armat, al costat de la introducció d'una profusa vegetació com a part intrínseca de l'edifici, sense cap dubte, doten a aquesta obra d'un interés arquitectònic digne d'objecte d'estudi. En l'actualitat, nombrosos col·lectius acadèmics i professionals han començat a mostrar un creixent interés per difondre aquesta edificació, donades els seus peculiars característiques. Existeixen diferents publicacions i exposicions que aporten certs detalls de l'obra, però tots ells des d'un caràcter divulgatiu, sense arribar a aprofundir en el procés arquitectònic i d'execució. El treball parteix de recopilar el major número de documentació i dades possible respecte al seu disseny i materialització, i així poder analitzar i establir una sèrie de conclusions que donen lloc al primer document formal sobre Espai Verd. La València dels anys 80, l'auge del cooperativisme, el desenvolupament professional de CSPT i de Cortés, i conceptes com el brutalisme, les megaestructures o l'arquitectura modular en l'espai, són alguns dels factors que van influir profundament en el disseny i materialització d'aquesta obra. En aquest sentit, referents com a Habitat 67, Mont-real, al Canadà, de Moshe Safdie o l'arquitectura modular de l'estudi d'arquitectura GO-DB, en el qual Cortés i la resta d'integrants de CSPT van estar formant-se professionalment, resulten claus per a entendre aquest tipus d'arquitectura. El projecte es basa en la utilització de tres peces o tipologies d'habitatges, d'una planta, dúplex i tríplex, que introdueix dins d'una retícula de 6 x 6 m per a combinar-les mitjançant diferents estratègies de disseny com l'escalonament o la simetria. Els espais intermedis, resultants de la combinació espacial entre els habitatges, originen generosos espais de relació i múltiples dotacions que són fonamentals en el desenvolupament social i vivencial de l'hàbitat. D'igual manera, l'ús de la vegetació com a extensió natural de l'habitatge millora les condicions mig ambientals, i suposa la necessària desvinculació dels eixos respecte a la trama urbana, a favor del millor assolellament possible. L'espacialitat de les seues crugies i les grans càrregues que impliquen la implantació del terreny vegetal en els forjats porten com a resultat la singularizatció de l'estructura, gens convencional per a un edifici de caràcter residencial. En aquest sentit, a través de la diferent documentació recopilada per a l'execució de l'obra es pot apreciar la complexitat i el detall en els diferents sistemes constructius emprats, en els quals destaca la seua part estructural. Per tant, l'exposició i anàlisi de la major informació possible recaptada sobre Espai Verd han permés revelar els criteris i estratègies de projecte utilitzats, amb els quals establir unes reflexions sobretot el procés arquitectònic d'aquesta obra. En conseqüència, la seua singularitat i interés patrimonial, haurien de ser estudiats per a la seua inclusió dins del catàleg de Béns de Rellevància Local, amb el que garantir i preservar aquest particular hàbitat sostenible.
Calleja Molina, M. (2020). Arquitectura Modular en el Espacio: Espai Verd, un Hábitat Sostenible [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/153381
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