Semantics and Pragmatics
The semantics and pragmatics of plurals
... Abstract This paper addresses the semantics and pragmatics of singular and plural nominals in languages that manifest a binary morphological number distinction within this category. We review the main ...
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An introduction to semantics and pragmatics
... In order to cover such a broad range of topics in relatively little space, I have not been able to provide as much depth as I would have liked in any of them. As the title indicates, this book is truly an introduction: ...
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On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary
... a semantics for epistemic vocabulary. This semantics constitutes a rather dramatic alternative to standard truth conditional theories, as it assigns sets of probability measures rather than sets of worlds ...
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Semantics and Pragmatics -- A New Journal
... We see the affiliation of S&P with the LSA as a mutually beneficial rela- tionship. The eLanguage team will coordinate the web hosting of the journal, including the infrastructure of the OJS open source journal ...
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On Issue of Semantics and Pragmatics of Reflexive Constructions
... Abstract. The article describes semantics and pragmatics of reflexive constructions. Common notes on the semantics of reflexivity are given. Reflexivity reflects specific subject-object relationships ...
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The semantics and pragmatics of nouns in concealed questions
... The semantics and pragmatics of nouns in concealed questions * Hana Kalpak Stockholm University Abstract Concealed questions (CQs) are determiner phrases that are naturally paraphrased as embedded ...
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The Semantics and Pragmatics of Address forms in Persian
... 94 My study introduces a new sample of data analysis of contemporary Persian in a multidisciplinary approach involving semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistic in a way that has not been tried before. The ...
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Negation, 'presupposition' and the semantics/pragmatics distinction
... the semantics ’, that is, it requires a prior semantico-logical analysis on which negation is ...of semantics and pragmatics and the relation between ...
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A Formal Computational Semantics and Pragmatics of Speech Acts
... A Formal Computational Semantics and Pragmatics of Speech Acts A F o r m a l C o m p u t a t i o n a l S e m a n t i c s a n d P r a g m a t i c s o f S p e e c h A c t s * Eric WERNER University of H[.] ...
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Meaning as use: a functional view of semantics and pragmatics
... MEANING AS USE: A FUNCTIONAL VIEW OF SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS ALICE MWIHAKI This article addresses the notion of linguistic meaning with reference to Kiswahili. It focuses particular attention on meaning ...
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Semantics, pragmatics, and formal thought disorders in people with schizophrenia
... The present study shows the relationship between the Verbal-WAIS and the scales for FTD assessment, and found correlations between the Verbal-WAIS and the TLC scales. The data obtained demonstrated that the more serious ...
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Jaszczolt, Kasia (2002), Semantics and Pragmatics. Meaning in language and discourse, London: Longman.
... which semantics and pragmatics both have a role to play, or as Jaszczolt says, “the pragmatic processes of reference resolution intrude into the semantics” ...
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A "de-Fregean" semantics (and neo-Gricean pragmatics) for modified and unmodified numerals
... neo-Gricean pragmatics for modified numerals 4 ...general semantics for number words, of what the alternatives to Class B modified numerals are, and ...
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Investigating the Language of Uncertainty - experimental data, formal semantics & probabilistic pragmatics
... probabilistic pragmatics (exemplified, among others, by RSA and RSA-like modeling of pragmatic phenomena) we bring together formal semantics, rationalistic pragmatics and computational simulations ...
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A Semantics and Pragmatics for the Pluperfect
... The current sentence is attached to the preceding SDRS with a discourse relation; the process by which this is done takes the reader's background knowledge into accoun[r] ...
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Semantics and Pragmatics Review
... Every student studies semantics ̸⇒ Every student studies formal semantics. Every student studies formal semantics ⇒ Every student studies semantics[r] ...
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The semantics and pragmatics of hybrid quotations
... When one begins to take into account more varied data, however, data where neither ‘use’ nor ‘mention’ can be understood in the strict sense in which Quine (19[r] ...
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Minimal Models in Semantics and Pragmatics
... the semantics of condi- tionals deals exclusively with the meaning of would have ...the semantics of these sentences at a very abstract level, ignoring the semantic impact of tense and modality markers ...
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Semantics and pragmatics of anti-proverbs
... cognitive semantics, the “meaning is based on conventionalized conceptual structures”, and thus “semantic structure reflects the mental categories which people have formed from their experience of growing up and ...
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Paradigmatics, semantics and pragmatics of the imperative in German
... Refusal: Ich wollte ihn zum Abschied küssen, er drückte mich zurück. «Lass das sein. Nicht hier auf der Straße, Kathi.» (Hein, 2005) In formation of the majority of the listed speech acts the imperative competes with ...
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