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On the Semantics and the Ontology of the Mass‐Count Distinction
Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2025.ABSTRACT The mass‐count distinction is a morpho‐syntactic distinction among nouns in English and many other languages. Tree, chair, person, group, and portion are count nouns, which come with the plural and accept numerals such as one and first; water, rice, furniture, silverware, and law enforcement are mass nouns, which lack the plural and do not ...
Friederike Moltmann
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Fair or Foul? Interrogating the Role of Baseball Knowledge in Studies of Knowledge and Comprehension
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.Abstract Although links between knowledge and reading comprehension have been widely documented for decades, recent translational science publications (e.g., teacher journals, books, and podcasts) have increasingly referred to studies using baseball (a sport popular in the USA) as a proxy for knowledge to explain those links, especially within science ...
Dan Reynolds +2 more
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Metaphors of Sin and Disability in Augustine's Anti‐Pelagian Writings
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 3-20, January 2025.Abstract This article examines Augustine's use of theological metaphor in his anti‐Pelagian writings. Drawing on disability studies in theology and literary theory, it explores how Augustine uses metaphors of disability to provide a material anchor for his concept of sin in Nature and Grace and The Grace of Christ and Original Sin. However, the article
Tanya Kundu
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Conversational Alignment With Artificial Intelligence in Context
Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 89-102, December 2024.ABSTRACT The development of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents based on large language models raises important questions about the relationship between human norms, values, and practices and AI design and performance. This article explores what it means for AI agents to be conversationally aligned to human communicative ...
Rachel Katharine Sterken +1 more
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Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 54-88, December 2024.ABSTRACT In a pure event semantics for natural language, the domain of quantification and predication is limited to events and states. I offer pure event semantic analyses of several phenomena, some of which have not been treated before in formal semantics. In the pure event semantics sketched in the second section, nouns are state predicates, and this
Roger Schwarzschild
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Towards a semantic typology of specific determiners [PDF]
, 2017 This paper investigates properties of a class of determiners which can be loosely la- belled specific in that their distribution falls in between maximally-quantifying definite determiners and indefinites which only contribute existential quantification.
Simonenko, Alexandra
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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, 2015 The present contribution follows up on Rudnev (2011). It is for this reason that I omit most of the arguments for the pronominal nature of kendisi and present a formalisation of its semantic properties based on Partee (1983) and Elbourne (2008)
Pavel Rudnev
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Challenges and Strategies for Acquiring Adjectives
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 6, November/December 2024.ABSTRACT Children acquiring language must learn a variety of words mapping on to different kinds of concepts. Typically, word learning accounts focus on how children strategically acquire words for entities (nouns) and events (verbs). Often underrepresented are word for properties (adjectives).
Kristen Syrett
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Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 921-947, October 2024.Abstract In the last twenty‐five years scientific research on embodied cognition and related discussions in the philosophy of technology and science have led to two groundbreaking insights: 1. Perceptions, memories, meanings, and volitions are neither located in the brain nor reducible to intentional acts of ‘autonomous subjects’. 2. Human intelligence
Johannes Hoff
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