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REFERENTIAL USES OF ARABIC NUMERALS [PDF]
Manuscrito, 2020 Is the debate over the existence of numbers unsolvable? Mario Gómez-Torrente presents a novel proposal to unclog the old discussion between the realist and the anti-realist about numbers.
MELISSA VIVANCO
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The Referential Uses of Demonstratives in Kerinci Malay, Indonesia
Arbitrer, 2020 Demonstratives are pervasive and ubiquitous in every human language. This study explores further evidence from Kerinci, a Malayic sub-variety spoken in Sumatra, Indonesia. It highlights the referential uses of the Kerinci proximal demonstratives ineh/neh
Ernanda Ernanda
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Sounding the alarm: Functionally referential signaling in Azure-winged Magpie
Avian ResearchFunctionally referential signals are a complex form of communication that conveys information about the external environment. Such signals have been found in a range of mammal and bird species and have helped us understand the complexities of animal ...
Xingyi Jiang, Yanyun Zhang
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A generational study on self-referential advertising: How it affects attitude toward brands [PDF]
Innovative Marketing, 2023 Self-referential, meta or self-aware advertising uses irony and cynicism to overtly critique and challenge conventional advertising strategies. While increasingly multiple brands are using self-referential advertising campaigns to implement innovative ...
Kavitha Venkatasubramany Iyer +1 more
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Classifying Referential and Non-referential It Using Gaze [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2018 When processing a text, humans and machines must disambiguate between different uses of the pronoun it, including non-referential, nominal anaphoric or clause anaphoric ones. In this paper, we use eye-tracking data to learn how humans perform this disambiguation. We use this knowledge to improve the automatic classification of it. We show that by using
Victoria Yaneva +3 more
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Distinct ERP signatures for singular “they” and gender violations [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionThe English pronoun system is undergoing rapid change, with singular “they” increasingly used to refer to specific individuals. A key question is how this innovative usage is processed online, particularly when paired with gendered ...
Joanna Morris +5 more
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Referentially Used Descriptions: A Reply to Devitt
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 This paper continues an ongoing debate between Michael Devitt and me on referential uses of definite descriptions. He has argued that definite descriptions have referential meanings, and I have argued that they do not. Having previously rebutted the view
Kent Bach
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Kaplan and Marti on definite descriptions [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2023 Donnellan’s distinction between referential and attributive uses of definite descriptions gave rise to controversy between semantic and pragmatic accounts of referentially used descriptions.
E. V. Borisov
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IJOTL-TL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics), 2021 This research aimed at analyzing the categories of speech functions used by the characters Totto-Chan and Mr. Kobayashi in Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window book.
Esther Febriana Tiurmaida Napitupulu +1 more
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Grammatically relevant aspects of meaning and verbal polysemy
Linguistics, 2022 The debate over the relation between grammatically relevant (specifically, what we term event referential) and idiosyncratic aspects of verb meaning has produced a considerable literature. Some authors, such as Levin and Rappaport Hovav, have appealed to
McNally Louise, Spalek Alexandra Anna
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