The Drama in the Sentence: Sequence as a Crucial Challenge for Literary Translation from and to Korean

In translation, carefully-crafted sentences are exposed to myriad dangers. This is because translators tend to prioritize syntactical fidelity at the expense of sequence, that is, the order of elements insofar as this relates to calculated progression, gradual disclosure of information, and cumulative development of meaning. But if sequence is turned around for the sake of fluency (conforming to the target language’s ostensibly “natural” word order), the reader’s experience changes as well. Through a set of examples drawn from English translations of Korean fiction, this article demonstrates that the common disregard for sequence is tantamount to a neglect of drama and suspense, of narrative perspectivation, of rhetorical sophistication and cognitive effect. But we also see that by favoring functional equivalence over imitation of grammatical dependencies, it is perfectly possible to allow the reader to process all information at a pace that is analogous to that of the original. Our findings provide insights that are of significance for other language pairings as well.

A new characterization of PSL(3,q)

Let G be a group. In this paper, we prove that G is isomorphic to PSL(3,q) if and only if |G|=|PSL(3,q)| and m(G)=m(PSL(3,q)), where q is a prime power and m(G) is the maximal order of elements in G.

A new characterization of the simple groups C4(q), by its order and the largest order of elements

We prove that the simple group C4(q), where q > 2 and (q4 + 1)=2 are prime numbers, can be uniquely determined by its order and the largest order of elements.

Sort Elements Based on Priority, in order to Improve the Quality of E-Learning in Health Using Difficulty-Usefulness Pyramid with Weighting (DUP-We)

Many health education institutions in Indonesia are starting the implementation of e-learning, but there are still many technical obstacles. The elements of e-learning that must be improved are relatively many, so it is neces-sary to choose which elements will be prioritized to handle first. This study proposes a new method for selecting elements that will be prioritized to be im-proved using Difficultness-Usefulness Pyramid with Weighting (DUP-We). The subjects were 200 students from the Environmental Health Department of Magetan, Health Polytechnic of Surabaya. The elements chosen were learning design, handouts, books, links to resources, discussion forums, chat, assignment, feedback, quizzes and surveys. The attributes that were used as the basis for determining priorities are difficultness and usefulness. Weighting (1 to 10) is based on the importance of each attribute. Data about attributes and weighting are obtained through filling in questionnaires. For each element a determination is made: 1) weightless difficultness (difficultness x weight) and weighted usefulness (usefullness x weight); 2) weighted average difficultness and weighted usefulness mean; 3) Range (mean difficultness average weighted up to weighted usefulness mean). Furthermore, the range is sorted from the smallest and described in the form of a pyramid. The pyramid shows that the order of elements based on priority is assignment, quiz, feedback, discussion, link to resources, book, survey, learning design, handout and chat.

Introduction to Part II

The chapter provides an overview of the main issues and contributions of Part II of the volume. This part discusses various phenomena concerning the middle field in the historical stages of German. In particular, the discussion concerns the question of the relative order of elements and the factors influencing changes of this order. In the left-most part of the middle field—the Wackernagel position, where light and clitic elements appear—the order of pronouns and their interplay with complementizer agreement is an intriguing topic. Another relevant aspect concerns the order of full NPs and the role that syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors play for the relative order of these constituents over the course of the language history. Finally, negation and its grammaticalization along Jespersen’s Cycle is a phenomenon of the middle field which is discussed in this part of the book.

Identifying Adj + N compounds in Modern Standard Arabic

The study aims to identify Adj+N compounds in Modern Standard Arabic by applying the cross-linguistic criteria for compoundhood discussed in the relevant literature. The analysis reveals that the most reliable cross-linguistic criteria to distinguish between phrases and compounds in MSA are adjacency, referentiality, compositionality and the presence of inflection. Another language-specific criterion, i.e. adjacency and the order of elements, which has asserted its validity, has been suggested to distinguish between the two types of construct. I have also shown that all cases of Adj+N compounding in MSA are bahuvrihis, since they denote a person in possession of the entity denoted by the compound. Similar to Fassi Fehri (“Arabic modifying adjectives and DP structures” 1999), I argue that the output of Adj+N compounding behaves more like a noun than an adjective. I propose that Adj+N compounds have a silent N head, i.e. ‘one/person’, which determines the syntactic category of such constructions in Modern Standard Arabic (cf. Günther [“The rich, the poor, the obvious: Arguing for an ellipsis analysis of ‘adjectives used as nouns’”, to appear) for a similar analysis of nominalized adjectives in English).

Multiple Spectra of Bernoulli Convolutions

Let μλ be the Bernoulli convolution associated with λ ∈ (0, 1). The well-known result of Jorgensen and Pedersen shows that if λ = 1/(2k) for some k ∈ ℕ, then μ1/(2k) is a spectral measure with spectrum Γ(1/(2k)). The recent research on the spectrality of μλ shows that μλ is a spectral measure only if λ = 1/(2k) for some k ∈ ℕ. Moreover, for certain odd integer p, the multiple set pΓ(1/(2k)) is also a spectrum for μ1/(2k). This is surprising because some spectra for the measure μ1/(2k) are thinning. In this paper we mainly characterize the number p that has the above property. By applying the properties of congruences and the order of elements in the finite group, we obtain several conditions on p such that pΓ(1/(2k)) is a spectrum for μ1/(2k).