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Situation semantics, time and descriptive indexicals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
I argue that descriptive uses of indexicals pose a challenge to the situation semantics of Kratzer and Berman. Many of the proposed methods of analysis for descriptive indexicals are based on the situation semantics of Kratzer as supplemented by Berman’
Kijania-Placek, Katarzyna
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Situation semantics and machine translation [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the fourth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1989
Situation Semantics is one of the most recent and controversial theories in formal semantics. Machine Translation (MT) is a highly complex application domain, in which research is expensive of both time and resources.
C. Rupp
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A prolegomenon to situation semantics [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 21st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1983
Abstract : An attempt is made to introduce Computational Linguistics to Situation Semantics. (Author)
David J. Israel
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Two formal systems for situation semantics.

open access: yesNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1991
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
J. Escriba
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Japanese honorifics and situation semantics [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics -, 1986
A model of Japanese honorific expressions in situation semantics is proposed. Situation semantics provides considerable power for analyzing the complicated structure of Japanese honorific expressions. The main feature of this model is a set of basic rules for context switching in honorific sentences.
Ryôichi Sugimura
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Situation Calculus Semantics for Actual Causality

open access: yesProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018
The definitions of actual cause given by Pearl and Halpern (HP) in the framework of causal models provided vital computational insight into an old philosophical problem but by no means resolved it. One source of concern is the lack of objective criteria for selecting possible worlds to be admitted into the counterfactual analysis ...
Vitaliy Batusov, Mikhail Soutchanski
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When is Situation Semantics Allowed?

open access: yesSemantics and Linguistic Theory, 2001
No abstract.
Paul D. Elbourne
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On Actuality Entailments, Causation, and Telicity in Balkar

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
This paper presents a study of actuality entailments in Balkar (a dialect of Karachay-Balkar, Turkic). The study focuses on the deontic and causal meanings of four morphemes: two suffixes (the causative suffix and the suffix -al (‘can/may’)) and two ...
Dmitry Privoznov
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The English past tense as a definite description

open access: yesGlossa, 2023
There are two major groups of analyses in the literature on the English past tense; existential semantics with domain restriction, and the pronominal (i.e. anaphoric) analysis. In this paper, I discuss a group of data difficult for both of these analyses:
Ruoying Zhao
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Should God believe the Liar? A non-dialetheist paraconsistent approach to God’s Omniscience

open access: yesManuscrito, 2021
In this paper, we discuss a family of arguments that show the inconsistency of the concept of omniscience, which is one of the central attributes of the theistic God.
GUILHERME ARAÚJO CARDOSO   +1 more
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