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Coalgebraic semantics for timed processes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We give a coalgebraic formulation of timed processes and their operational semantics. We model time by a monoid called a “time domain”, and we model processes by “timed transition systems”, which amount to partial monoid actions of the time domain or ...
Simpson, Alexander   +5 more
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Lexical Semantics

open access: yes, 2015
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. The scope of linguistic lexical semantics is described from a theoretical and descriptive point of view: an overview of the main theoretical approaches that have succeeded each other in the history of lexical ...
Geeraerts, Dirk, Dirk Geeraerts
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Realism, model theory, and linguistic semantics

open access: yes, 1995
George Lakoff (in his book Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things(1987) and the paper "Cognitive semantics" (1988)) champions some radical foundational views. Strikingly, Lakoff opposes realism as a metaphysical position, favoring instead some supposedly mild
Abbott, B, Hauser, L
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Metaphor identification in a terminological dictionary

open access: yesIbérica, 2009
This paper aims at demonstrating that metaphor is not simply a literary device, but an integral part of everyday language. The Theory of Conceptual Metaphor suggests that our conceptual system is fundamentally metaphorical.

doaj  

The Aggregation of α-Synuclein in the Dorsomedial Striatum Significantly Impairs Cognitive Flexibility in Parkinson’s Disease Mice

open access: yesBiomedicines
This study focused on α-synuclein (α-syn) aggregation in the dorsomedial striatum (DMS) so as to investigate its role in the cognitive flexibility of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Here, we investigated the cognitive flexibility by assessing reversal learning
Jing Chen   +7 more
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Implementing Cognitive Semantics of Autoepistemic Membership Statements: The Case of Categories with Prototypes

open access: yesApplied Sciences
This article presents a model of an architecture of an artificial cognitive agent that performs the function of generating autoepistemic membership statements used to communicate beliefs about the belonging of an observed external object to a category ...
Radosław Piotr Katarzyniak   +2 more
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Implementing Cognitive Semantics.

open access: yes, 1993
This book is about how concepts are structured and processed. It is based on the findings in cognitive linguistics over the last decade, where thorough studies have been made about how concepts function. Concepts appear as image schemata, a spatial form of representation with very powerful properties.
openaire   +1 more source

From cognitive semantics to lexical pragmatics: the functional polysemy of discourse particles

open access: yes, 2000
Fischer K. From cognitive semantics to lexical pragmatics: the functional polysemy of discourse particles.
Fischer, Kerstin
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Chemical Possibility and Modal Semantics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In the course of their work, chemists sometimes judge particular chemical processes to be possible or impossible. In this note I examine the semantics of the notion of possibility implicit in these judgments.
Sharlow, Mark
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OBJECTIVIST SEMANTICS OR COGNITIVE SEMANTICS? IMPLICATIONS OF THE SEMANTIC MODEL FOR THE ANALYSIS OF CONDITIONALS

open access: yesGragoatá, 2015
This paper contrasts the analysis of conditional constructions in Functionalism and Cognitive Linguistics, and argues that the semantic model adopted– Objectivist Semantics and Cognitive Semantics, respectively – is at the heart of the differences ...
Lilian Ferrari
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