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Null arguments

2017· book-chapter· en· W6984993667 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueARCA (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) · 2017
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicHearing Impairment and Communication
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPredicate (mathematical logic)CatalanVerbNoun phraseNull (SQL)PronounReferentSign (mathematics)Phrase
DOInot available

Abstract

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Some languages allow the arguments of a verb in a not to be expressed as an overt Pronoun [Lexicon- Section 3.7] or a lexical [Syntax- Chapter 4]. This is the situation in which the term ‘null argument’ is commonly used. Spoken languages vary with respect to whether they allow the arguments of the verbs to be Miller, C. 1994. Simultaneous Constructions in Quebec Sign Language. In: Brennan, M. & G.H. Turner (eds.), Word-Order issues in sign language. Durham: International Sign Linguistic Association, 89-112. tensed clause noun phrase silent.Null arguments are most commonly observed in languages like Italian, Spanish, Catalan and Turkish which have a rich verbal agreement morphology. English, on the other hand, which does not have a rich verbal morphology does not allow arguments of a predicate to be phonologically null in a sentence. In the Turkish and Catalan examples below, the verb bears the person and number agreement marker for the subject which is not phonologically expressed (pro indicates the phonologically null pronoun). a. Kitab-ı bitir-di-m book-ACC finish- PAST-1SG ‘I finished the book.’ b. Al camp pro ho aprofiten tot. in-the countryside it use.3PLeverything ‘In the countryside they use everything.’ (Turkish) (Catalan, Barbera & Quer 2013: ex. (1a)) Languages which identify the referent of the null argument by means of verbal agreement morphology are said to use a licensing strategy based on agreement. Similar to spoken languages, many sign languages also allow one or more of the arguments of the verb in a tensed clause to be phonologically unexpressed. In the ASL question-answer exchange below, the agreeing verb send is marked for subject and object agreement. DID JOHN SEND MARY THE PAPER? YES, ASENDB ‘Yes, (he) sent (it) to (her).’ (ASL, Lillo-Martin 1986: 421) As can be observed, neither the subject nor the object argument of the verb send is pronounced in the response. The null pronouns are nevertheless interpreted as a definite pronominal such as he, her, and it.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.000
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: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.899
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.007

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 head0.055
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.246 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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