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Language and scientific explanation: Where does semantics fit in? [PDF]
, 2020 This book discusses the two main construals of the explanatory goals of semantic theories. The first, externalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of a hermeneutic and interpretive explanatory project. The second, internalist conception,
Asoulin, Eran
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Distributivity in Formal Semantics
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2019 Distributivity in natural language occurs in sentences such as John and Mary (each) took a deep breath, when a predicate that is combined with a plurality-denoting expression is understood as holding of each of the members of that plurality.
Lucas Champollion
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Weak and Strong Necessity Modals: On Linguistic Means of Expressing "A Primitive Concept OUGHT" [PDF]
, 2022 This paper develops an account of the meaning of `ought', and the distinction between weak necessity modals (`ought', `should') and strong necessity modals (`must', `have to').
Silk, Alex
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Revista Linguística, 2017 Avram Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist, philosopher and political activist. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and recently became a laureate Professor in the Department of ...
Alessandro Boechat de Medeiros
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Towards semiotically driven empirical studies of ballet as a communicative form
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 This paper treats dance as a movement-based semiotic system, focusing on classical ballet as an example in order to show how dance can be made accessible to both detailed description and empirical investigation as a form of communication.
Arianna Maiorani +5 more
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Mathematics, 2022 In recent years, the study of evaluative linguistic expressions has crossed the field of theoretical linguistics and has aroused interest in very different research areas such as artificial intelligence, psychology or cognitive linguistics.
Adrià Torrens-Urrutia +2 more
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Annual Review of Linguistics, 2023 Current formal semantic theories aim at capturing gestural semantic contributions and in particular their interplay with the semantics that stems from cooccurring speech. To grasp how gesture contributes meaning and interacts with speech, the information
Cornelia Ebert
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Zones and Taxis: Locative Semantics of Russian Cases in Terms of Modern Systems Linguistics
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2019 This paper presents the results of the analysis of locative case semantics from the standpoint of modern system linguistics, in which case is interpreted as a formal grammatical category of a name that arose in Russian as a typical representative of ...
Alexey F. Dremov
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Why Philosophers Shouldn’t Do Semantics [PDF]
, 2017 The linguistic turn provided philosophers with a range of reasons for engaging in careful investigation into the nature and structure of language. However, the linguistic turn is dead. The arguments for it have been abandoned.
Cappelen, Herman
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A systemic functional analysis of the “ngp1 + vgp + ngp2 + ngp3” construction in English
Journal of World Languages, 2021 The literature to date features two very different approaches to the study of syntax, the formal or structure-based approach and the functional or semantics-based approach, both of which have advantages and disadvantages.
Huang Guowen, Zhao Ruihua
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