{"title":"Extending the typology of quantifier particles","authors":"Ian L. Kirby","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09589-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09589-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Sakha particle <i>da(ɣanï)</i> has a restricted, semantically varied distribution. It appears in three main roles: negative polarity item (NPIs), a marker of scalar focus, and doubled in coordination constructions. In coordination <i>X da(ɣanï) Y da(ɣanï)</i> means ‘both X and Y’ in positive sentences, but ‘neither X nor Y’ in negative sentences. Following from the assumption that NPIs denote low-point existentials, it is surprising to find a particle that is involved in these as well as ‘both…and’ coordination. While there are quantifier particles in other languages which overlap with all of <i>da(ɣanï)</i>’s uses, these typically these serve far more roles. One such common role that <i>da(ɣanï)</i> lacks is a basic additive ‘too’ reading, though an additive reading emerges with scalar focus. I argue that <i>da(ɣanï)</i> is an element which combines with an host that has semantic alternatives and makes them <span>obligatorily active</span>, in the sense of Chierchia (2013). When it combines with a low-point existential, this has the effect of creating NPIs. The ‘both…and’ reading is argued to be the result of <i>da(ɣanï)</i> inducing an additive post-supposition. However, a unary ‘too’ function is blocked by the additive presupposition of another particle <i>emie</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unawareness of breast cancer family history among African women.","authors":"Babatunde Adedokun, Adeyinka Ademola, Timothy Makumbi, Stella Odedina, Imaria Agwai, Paul Ndom, Antony Gakwaya, Temidayo Ogundiran, Oladosu Ojengbede, Dezheng Huo, Olufunmilayo I Olopade","doi":"10.11604/pamj.2023.45.188.21616","DOIUrl":"10.11604/pamj.2023.45.188.21616","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>comprehensive cancer risk assessment services are lacking in most sub-Saharan African countries and the use of accurate family history (FH) information could serve as a cheap strategy for risk evaluation. The aim of this study is to determine the proportion of women unaware of family history of cancer among female relatives and associated socio-demographic characteristics.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>using case-control data on breast cancer among 4294 women in Nigeria, Uganda and Cameroon, we investigated the proportion of women unaware of family history of cancer among their female relatives. The association between participants' response to their awareness of female relatives' cancer history and socio-demographic characteristics was analysed according to case-control status, family side and distance of relation. <b>Results:</b> the proportion of women unaware if any relative had cancer was 33%, and was significantly higher among controls (43.2%) compared to 23.9% among cases (p<0.001) (Adjusted Odds Ratio (OR) = 2.51, 95% CI = 2.14 - 2.95). Age, education and marital status remained significantly associated with being unaware of FH among controls on multiple regression.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>about a third of women interviewed did not know about cancer history in at least one of their female relatives. Efforts aimed at improving cancer awareness in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are needed. Our findings could be useful for future studies of cancer risk assessment in SSA.</p>","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":"21 1","pages":"188"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10656588/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79492075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"There is something missing in NP and moving in DP","authors":"Wesley Orth, Masaya Yoshida","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09581-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09581-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49267232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu","authors":"Yuhong Zhu","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09572-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09572-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41653494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)","authors":"Bernhard Schwarz","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09571-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09571-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49652420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"States and changes-of-state in the semantics of result roots","authors":"Jianrong Yu, Josep Ausensi, Ryan Walter Smith","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09570-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09570-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-40"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47807216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Semantic variation in exclusive quantifiers","authors":"David Y. Oshima","doi":"10.1007/s11049-022-09566-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-022-09566-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45006769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The semantics of applicativization in Kinyarwanda","authors":"Kyle Jerro","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09569-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09569-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":" ","pages":"1-40"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48974790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Passive vs. unaccusative predicates: A phase-based account","authors":"Marwan Jarrah","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09568-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09568-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46087051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emergent learning bias and the underattestation of simple patterns","authors":"C. O’Hara","doi":"10.1007/s11049-022-09562-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-022-09562-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-44"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42205708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}