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COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR
ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
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Referential Descriptions and Conversational Implicatures
The standard Gricean defense of Russell in the face of referential uses of descriptions has been to claim that these uses are conversational implicatures.
Michael Devitt
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Metarepresentation, tense, aspect and narratives: the case of Behdini-Kurdish and Estonian [PDF]
This paper looks at three sets of data, two from Behdini-Kurdish and one from Estonian, where a metarepresentational use analysis enhances the linguistic analysis of certain linguistic forms.
Unger, Christoph
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Verbal noun or verbal adjective? : the case of the latin gerundive and gerund [PDF]
It is the aim of this paper to present and elaborate a new solution to the old syntactic problems connected with the Latin gerundive and gerund, two verbal categories which have been interpreted variously either as adjective (or participle) or noun (or ...
Haspelmath, Martin
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Abstract This article examines how commodification practices of Ruhrdeutsch, a formerly stigmatized variety, contribute to local language awareness and enregisterment. Following the decline of the Ruhr Area's heavy industry and the shift from the secondary to the tertiary economic sector, companies have discovered the value of local marketing ...
Nantke Pecht
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Constrained Semi-Supervised Learning Using Attributes and Comparative Attributes [PDF]
We consider the problem of semi-supervised bootstrap learning for scene categorization. Existing semi-supervised approaches are typically unreliable and face semantic drift because the learning task is under-constrained. This is primarily because they ignore the strong interactions that often exist between scene categories, such as the common ...
Abhinav Shrivastava +2 more
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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation
ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
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Explaining Visual Classification using Attributes [PDF]
The performance of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has been reaching or even exceeding the human level on large number of tasks. Some examples are image classification, Mastering Go game, speech understanding etc. However, their lack of decomposability into intuitive and understandable components make them hard to interpret, i.e.
Muneeb ul Hassan +3 more
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The ductal network in the human testis and epididymis: What belongs to which?
Abstract The testes and epididymis are traversed by a system of tubules in which sperm cells are generated, matured, nourished, and transported. Among these are the efferent ductules, which connect the rete testis to the duct of the epididymis. In the Terminologia Anatomica (TA), the efferent ductules are assigned to the testicles, while numerous ...
Andreas Gocht +3 more
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“Definite Associative Deixis”: Between Referential and Attributive Readings
This paper investigates different readings of definite descriptions within “definite associative deixis”. The term itself was proposed in Dvořák (2023) to refer to Hawkins’ “larger situation uses based on general knowledge” (1978).
Jan Dvořák
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