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Glossa, 2022 I present clear evidence from Karimata-Miyako Ryukyuan that semantic change can precede a syntactic change in the process of grammaticalization. In this dialect, the morpheme ufu has an aspectual and a conjectural use, and the change proceeds from the ...
Tomohide Kinuhata
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What Modals Are: Modal Verbs, Modal Words, and Auxiliary Modals
European Researcher, 2013 The modals are a complicated grammatical phenomenon. As of today, the status of modals is still not precisely defined in the linguistics literature, and they are described under different names: modal verbs, modal words, auxiliary modals, or defective verbs.
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UNIMO: Towards Unified-Modal Understanding and Generation via Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020 Existed pre-training methods either focus on single-modal tasks or multi-modal tasks, and cannot effectively adapt to each other. They can only utilize single-modal data (i.e., text or image) or limited multi-modal data (i.e., image-text pairs).
Wei Li +7 more
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Derivational Modal Logics with the Difference Modality [PDF]
, 2014 In this chapter we study modal logics of topological spaces in the combined language with the derivational modality and the difference modality. We give axiomatizations and prove completeness for the following classes: all spaces, $T_1$-spaces, dense-in-themselves spaces, a zero-dimensional dense-in-itself separable metric space, $R^n$ $(n\ge 2)$.
Valentin B. Shehtman, Andrey Kudinov
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Semantic and pragmatic values of the Italian imperfetto: Towards a common interpretive procedure
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2015 This paper proposes an account of the semantics and pragmatics of the Italian indicative imperfect. This tense is described as deriving all of its uses from an extremely reduced core of semantic features as the point of departure to a series of ...
Laura Baranzini, Claudia Ricci
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MODAL: A multilingual corpus annotated for modality [PDF]
, 2017 We have produced a corpus annotated for modality which amounts to approximately 20,000 words in English, French, and Italian. The annotation scheme is based on the notion of epistemic construction and virtually language-independent. The annotation is rigorously evaluated by means of a newly developed strategy based on the alignment of the entire ...
Nissim, Malvina, Pietrandrea, Paola
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Autophagy in cancer and protein conformational disorders
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Autophagy plays a crucial role in numerous biological processes, including protein and organelle quality control, development, immunity, and metabolism. Hence, dysregulation or mutations in autophagy‐related genes have been implicated in a wide range of human diseases.
Sergio Attanasio
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Natural Language Semantics, 2009 Across languages, we find indefinites that trigger modal inferences. This article contributes to a semantic typology of these items by contrasting Spanish algun with indefinites like German irgendein or Italian uno qualsiasi. While irgendein-type indefinites trigger a Free Choice effect (Kratzer and Shimoyama 2002; Chierchia 2006), algun simply signals
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis +1 more
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A stepwise emergence of evolution in the RNA world
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.How did biological evolution emerge from chemical reactions? This perspective proposes a gradual scenario of self‐organization among RNA molecules, where catalytic feedback on random mixtures plays the central role. Short oligomers cross‐ligate, and self‐assembly enables heritable variations. An event of template‐externalization marks the transition to
Philippe Nghe
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020 A new set of modals is appearing in contemporary English. The epistemic modals with perfect have are forming a new class including mighta, coulda, woulda, shoulda, and musta, when they are used with an additional have and without a (present) perfect ...
Elly van Gelderen
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