Are “Attributive” Uses of Definite Descriptions Really Attributive? [PDF]
Abstract In this essay I argue that given Donnellan’s formulation of the attributive uses of definite descriptions, as well as Kripke’s [6] and Salmon’s [10] generalized accounts, most uses of definite descriptions that are taken to be attributive turn out not to be so.
Inan, Ilhan
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The contexts of change in attributive SNLoc: a study of lexical constructionalization in Portuguese
Based on Usage-Based Functional Linguistics, we aim to study the SNLoc attributive construction in use in contemporary Portuguese, resulting from the strong integration of its subparts - SN and locative adverbial pronoun.
Milena Torres de Aguiar
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Retrieval of information to the left of the current fixation during reading Chinese [PDF]
This study investigates whether readers can extract the glyphs and lexical information of Chinese words from the left area of the current fixation. This study uses the eye-tracking technique with a boundary paradigm to explore this question. Participants
Lin Li +4 more
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Intelligent data driven assessment of physical education programs using circular intuitionistic fuzzy MAIRCA CRITIC model [PDF]
This study presents an intelligent multi-criteria evaluation framework for physical education (PE) systems by integrating the circular intuitionistic fuzzy (CIF) environment with a hybrid MAIRCA (multi-attributive ideal-real comparative analysis)-CRITIC ...
Xiaofei Shi, Fei Li
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Kaplan and Marti on definite descriptions [PDF]
Donnellan’s distinction between referential and attributive uses of definite descriptions gave rise to controversy between semantic and pragmatic accounts of referentially used descriptions.
E. V. Borisov
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Способы выражения каритивной семантики в горномарийском языке [The Expression of Caritive Semantics in Hill Mari] [PDF]
This paper deals with caritive constructions in Hill Mari, which are formed with the case affix -de âCARâ or with the combination of the elative postposition gÓc and the lexeme pasna âseparateâ.
Irina Khomchenkova
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Attribute Selection Using Contranominal Scales [PDF]
Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) allows to analyze binary data by deriving concepts and ordering them in lattices. One of the main goals of FCA is to enable humans to comprehend the information that is encapsulated in the data; however, the large size of concept lattices is a limiting factor for the feasibility of understanding the underlying structural ...
Dominik Dürrschnabel +2 more
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Articles on depression in American medical websites: an analysis based on appraisal theory [PDF]
The perfection of medical information system, the expertise and credibility of its contents are of great importance since an increasing number of people rely on online medical information.
Liu Leyi
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A framework for optimizing Java using attributes [PDF]
This paper presents a framework for supporting the optimization of Java programs using attributes in Java class files. We show how class file attributes may be used to convey both optimization opportunities and profile information to a variety of Java virtual machines including ahead-of-time compilers and just-in-time compilers.We present our work in ...
Patrice Pominville +4 more
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Using conjunction of attribute values for classification [PDF]
Advances in the efficient discovery of frequent itemsets have led to the development of a number of schemes that use frequent itemsets to aid developing accurate and efficient classifiers. These approaches use the frequent itemsets to generate a set of composite features that expand the dimensionality of the underlying dataset.
Mukund Deshpande, George Karypis
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