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Record W4237418365 · doi:10.22215/etd/2018-13216

Pseudoclefts

2018· dissertation· de· W4237418365 on OpenAlex
Katie Van Luven

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languagede
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPredicative expressionComputer scienceLinguisticsCounterweightSubject (documents)Relative clauseContrast (vision)Natural language processingMathematicsArtificial intelligencePhilosophyEngineering

Abstract

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This thesis proposes syntactic and semantic analyses for the two kinds of pseudoclefts, predicational and specificational. I suggest that although the two are syntactically quite different they are similar in their semantics. Predicational pseudoclefts are analyzed as predicational copular clauses with a free relative subject and a predicative counterweight. In contrast, I adopt a deletion-based approach to specificational pseudoclefts, in which the pre-copular constituent is left-dislocated and the counterweight is a fragment of what is underlyingly a full clause. Semantically, I propose that the wh-clause in predicational pseudoclefts denotes an individual, while in specificational pseudoclefts it denotes a question. The analyses of both wh-clauses involve the maximal informativity operator, MAX INF . In the former, MAX INF operates over predicates and in the latter it operates over sets of propositions. The overall aim of this thesis is to account for the differences between predicational and specificational pseudoclefts while also highlighting their similarities in an intuitively satisfying manner.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.524
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0590.028

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.239 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2018
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