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Situation semantics, time and descriptive indexicals [PDF]
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]
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]
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.
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J. Escriba
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Japanese honorifics and situation semantics [PDF]
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
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?
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Paul D. Elbourne
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On Actuality Entailments, Causation, and Telicity in Balkar
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
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
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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