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On the complexity of Gödel's proof predicate [PDF]
The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 2010 AbstractThe undecidability of first-order logic implies that there is no computable bound on the length of shortest proofs of valid sentences of first-order logic. Some valid sentences can only have quite long proofs. How hard is it to prove such “hard” valid sentences?
Chen, Yijia, Flum, Jörg
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Complex Predicates and the Functional Sequence
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008 In this paper I argue that a fine-grained functional hierarchy of semantically contentful categories such as Tense, Aspect, Initiation, and Process has explanatory power in understanding the crosslinguistic distribution of complex predicates.
Peter Svenonius
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Creating Surprise in Complex Predication
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008 In many languages, the verbs take and go may combine with another predicate to yield an inceptive reading, where the onset of the event denoted by the main predicate is in some sense focalized. Some of these cases have a touch of surprise, unexpectedness,
Anna-Lena Wiklund
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Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social SciencesThis research revolves around one of the most important complex sentences in the Chinese and Arabic languages, which is the sentence whose predicate is a sentence.
Hager Abd Elsatar
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Grammaticalisation et acquisition du prédicat complexe faire + Vinf
Lidil, 2008 This paper comprises two parts. In the first, we examine the process of grammaticalisation of faire + Vinf complex predicate. We distinguish three stages: 1) the generalized use in Latin of biclausal constructions V1command, persuasion + complementizer +
Yanka Bezinska
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Noun Preverbs in Complex Predicates
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008 In this paper, I propose a syntax-based analysis of Persian complex predicates (a predicate consisting of a so called preverb and a light verb). I adopt the framework of the verbal First Phase Syntax developed by Ramchand (2008). I use complex predicates
Marina Pantcheva
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The problems of the complex sentences with complements in Bulgarian [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2008 The investigation of the complex sentences with complements in Bulgarian is a multifactor analysis, which has to take into account the following issues: a) the lexical meaning of the main predicate, which determines the meaning of the complement in ...
Nicolova Ruselina
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An Approach to the Nominal Predicates in English and Romanian [PDF]
Studii de gramatică contrastivă, 2017 The paper is meant to be an approach to the use of nominal predicates in English and Romanian. In English there are two kinds of nominal predicates: the nominal predicate proper, concerned with the state or quality of the subject, and the double/complex ...
Nicoleta Florina Mincă
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Lexical Items in Complex Predications: Selection as Underassociation
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008 This paper examines the problem of selectional ‘matching’ effects in Bengali V-V complex predicates, and English denominal verbs within the context of a decompositional syntax/semantics for verbal meaning and a theory of lexical insertion under non ...
Gillian Ramchand
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MONOFINITE COMPLEX CLAUSE IN THE KUMYK LANGUAGE
Многоязычие в образовательном пространстве, 2020 This article aims to analyze the monofinite complex clause in the Kumyk language in terms of structure. The originality of the research lies in the fact that the article proposes a different approach than in Russian studies on the analysis of the ...
U. B. Abdullabekova
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