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Formal Semantics: Origins, Issues, Early Impact [PDF]
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010 Formal semantics and pragmatics as they have developed since the late 1960's have been shaped by fruitful interdisciplinary collaboration among linguists, philosophers, and logicians, among others, and in turn have had noticeable effects on developments ...
Barbara H. Partee
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, 2021 This paper demarcates a theoretically interesting class of "evaluational adjectives." This class includes predicates expressing various kinds of normative and epistemic evaluation, such as predicates of personal taste, aesthetic adjectives, moral ...
Alex Silk +28 more
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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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Don't Blame Distributional Semantics if it can't do Entailment [PDF]
, 2019 Distributional semantics has had enormous empirical success in Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science in modeling various semantic phenomena, such as semantic similarity, and distributional models are widely used in state-of-the-art Natural ...
Boleda, Gemma, Westera, Matthijs
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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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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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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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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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The polysemy of the Spanish verb sentir: a behavioral profile analysis [PDF]
, 2015 This study investigates the intricate polysemy of the Spanish perception verb sentir (‘feel’) which, analogous to the more-studied visual perception verbs ver (‘see’) and mirar (‘look’), also displays an ample gamut of semantic uses in various syntactic ...
Enghels, Renata +2 more
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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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