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, 2006 Real-life situations are at the heart of an innovative theory of information aimed at some long-standing problems of philosophy. This (situation) theory was proposed more than 2 decades ago and has matured over the years. It addressed a number of semantic problems, resulting in what is commonly known as situation semantics.
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Situation Semantics, Time, and Descriptive Indexicals
, 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’s notion of a minimal situation.
Katarzyna Kijania-Placek
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On Actuality Entailments, Causation, and Telicity in Balkar
Languages, 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
Glossa, 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
Manuscrito, 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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The German additive particle noch: Testing the role of topic situations
Glossa, 2021 The particle noch (‘still’) can have an additive reading similar to auch (‘also’). We argue that both particles indicate that a previously partially answered QUD is re-opened to add a further answer.
Marta Wierzba, Mira Grubic
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SEMANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PARAGUAY LINGUISTIC SYSTEM COMPONENTS [PDF]
Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2019 Since the beginning of the conquest of the American continent the confrontation of indigenous and European cultures has been observed. Languages, as a part of any culture, an indispensable element of any society respond to the changes in social ...
Igor Yu. Protsenko, Irina I. Davtiants
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Mathematics, 2022 The faces of the unit ball of a finite-dimensional Banach space are automatically closed. The situation is different in the infinite-dimensional case. In fact, under this last condition, the closure of a face may not be a face.
Juan Carlos Navarro-Pascual +1 more
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Defect Wormholes Are Defective
Universe, 2023 The various “defect wormholes” developed by Klinkhamer have recently attracted considerable attention—especially in view of the fact that the simplest example, the so-called “vacuum defect wormhole”, was claimed to be an everywhere-vacuum everywhere ...
Joshua Baines, Rudeep Gaur, Matt Visser
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Donkey anaphora is in-scope binding
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2008 We propose that the antecedent of a donkey pronoun takes scope over and binds the donkey pronoun, just like any other quantificational antecedent would bind a pronoun.
Chris Barker, Chung-chieh Shan
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