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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation
ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
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Three Algorithms for Competence-Oriented Anaphor Resolution [PDF]
In the last decade, much effort went into the design of robust third-person pronominal anaphor resolution algorithms. Typical approaches are reported to achieve an accuracy of 60-85%.
Stuckardt, Roland
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ABSTRACT Recent philosophy of language has seen a growing interest in what is often called the dynamics of conversation or conversational scorekeeping, that is, the ways in which speech and context mutually interact in the course of a conversation.
Lars Dänzer +2 more
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From anaphoric pronoun to copula in Zande [PDF]
In Zande there is a particle ni which has two syntactic functions. The first one is that of an ana¬phoric pronoun (cf. ex. 1. for its use as a possessive pronoun) which is neutral with regard to gender, number, and syntactic function. The second function
Pasch, Helma
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Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
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THE ‘I’ OF SHAME AND RAGE: CONFESSION AND RUMINATION AT EITHER END OF A MILLENNIUM
ABSTRACT This article brings together two texts that differ in numerous respects: the long poem farbe komma dunkel by Levin Westermann (2021) and a devotional text often known as the Bamberg Creed and Confession (Bamberger Glaube und Beichte), transmitted in a twelfth‐century manuscript.
Sarah Bowden +2 more
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Abstract This article treats Nicholas Cabasilas as an emblematic theologian of peace from the Orthodox tradition whose profound reflections on peace speak directly to our contemporary moment of turmoil. Writing amidst the untold upheavals of fourteenth‐century Byzantium, Cabasilas distills much of his inherited exegetical, ascetic, and liturgical ...
Alexis Torrance
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Knowledge-based disambiguation for machine translation [PDF]
The resolution of ambiguities is one of the central problems for Machine Translation. In this paper we propose a knowledge-based approach to disambiguation which uses Description Logics (DL) as representation formalism. We present the process of anaphora
Quantz, J. Joachim, Schmitz, Birte
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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
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COPULAR STRUCTURES AND ASYMMETRIC IDENTITY†
Abstract We propose an analysis of copular structures of the type “DP is DP” based on the existence of a silent predicate of asymmetric identity. Our proposal is based on a cognitively grounded notion of identity as identification of one object on the basis of the properties of another.
Denis Delfitto, Gaetano Fiorin
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