Hybrid, Classical, and Presuppositional Inquisitive Semantics
... • Since the interrogative ?{p , q} is to be a question, is has to be non-informative. The disjunct marked in red takes care of that. • If we read ?{p , q} as an alternative question, it may be observed that the answers p and q do not have the same status as the answer ¬p ∧ ¬q. • Already for the pola ...
... • Since the interrogative ?{p , q} is to be a question, is has to be non-informative. The disjunct marked in red takes care of that. • If we read ?{p , q} as an alternative question, it may be observed that the answers p and q do not have the same status as the answer ¬p ∧ ¬q. • Already for the pola ...
+++Notes on Editing:2009
... Eventually, the Teletypesetter came along. It wasn't a new invention, but by the time it made its way into the newsrooms in the early 1950s, the impact was revolutionary. To accommodate the Teletypesetter, wire services sent copy to newspaper subscribers that was justified and edited. Perforated tap ...
... Eventually, the Teletypesetter came along. It wasn't a new invention, but by the time it made its way into the newsrooms in the early 1950s, the impact was revolutionary. To accommodate the Teletypesetter, wire services sent copy to newspaper subscribers that was justified and edited. Perforated tap ...
Intonation - UCLA Linguistics
... (`John only introduced Bill to MARY'), the sentence is true only when John introduced Bill to exactly one person and that person was Mary. Thus, it can be seen that focus intonation changes the truth conditions of the sentence, suggesting that the ...
... (`John only introduced Bill to MARY'), the sentence is true only when John introduced Bill to exactly one person and that person was Mary. Thus, it can be seen that focus intonation changes the truth conditions of the sentence, suggesting that the ...
This excerpt from Language Form and Language Function
... model, what the picture was taken from—and what is to be seen in the picture itself, which may not even have had an original. Thus formerly if something was called an object that would have raised the question “object of what?” It is hardly possible to use the word “object” in this way nowadays unle ...
... model, what the picture was taken from—and what is to be seen in the picture itself, which may not even have had an original. Thus formerly if something was called an object that would have raised the question “object of what?” It is hardly possible to use the word “object” in this way nowadays unle ...
12:00 pm Fall 2004
... • “doggy” implies childlike, plaintive, probably cannot do the purchasing on their own • “in the window” implies behind a store window, not really inside a window, requires notion of window shopping IS 202 – FALL 2004 ...
... • “doggy” implies childlike, plaintive, probably cannot do the purchasing on their own • “in the window” implies behind a store window, not really inside a window, requires notion of window shopping IS 202 – FALL 2004 ...
Word order preferences for direct and indirect objects in children
... As just reported, the results of our comprehension experiment reveal that Korean children do far better on accusative–dative patterns than on dative– accusative constructions, whose interpretation they tend to reverse. Interestingly, there seems to be nothing in maternal speech to children that coul ...
... As just reported, the results of our comprehension experiment reveal that Korean children do far better on accusative–dative patterns than on dative– accusative constructions, whose interpretation they tend to reverse. Interestingly, there seems to be nothing in maternal speech to children that coul ...
ISSN 2354-6948 A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ENGLISH
... place or direction. Time prepositions include such words as "after", "until" and "during"; place prepositions, on the other hand, consist of location related terms such as "around", in the corner" and "between"; direction prepositions, meanwhile, show where a subject is headed, such as "under", "lef ...
... place or direction. Time prepositions include such words as "after", "until" and "during"; place prepositions, on the other hand, consist of location related terms such as "around", in the corner" and "between"; direction prepositions, meanwhile, show where a subject is headed, such as "under", "lef ...
PW-E300 Operation
... Data contained in the PW-E300 The dictionary data contained in this unit is based on the following dictionaries: • Oxford Dictionary of English 2e © Oxford University Press 2003 • New Oxford Thesaurus of English © Oxford University Press 2000 * All rights reserved. No part of this publication may b ...
... Data contained in the PW-E300 The dictionary data contained in this unit is based on the following dictionaries: • Oxford Dictionary of English 2e © Oxford University Press 2003 • New Oxford Thesaurus of English © Oxford University Press 2000 * All rights reserved. No part of this publication may b ...
Worksheets with stimulus pictures
... to record which picture the subject points to throughout the experiment. Circle the number that corresponds to the location to which the subject pointed. The location of the correct answer (the matching picture) is indicated by the number that is in bold. If the subject would like to hear the audito ...
... to record which picture the subject points to throughout the experiment. Circle the number that corresponds to the location to which the subject pointed. The location of the correct answer (the matching picture) is indicated by the number that is in bold. If the subject would like to hear the audito ...
Annotated Corpora for Word Alignment Between Japanese and English and... Evaluation with MAP-based Word Aligner
... for a word aligner which considers semantic knowledge. Incorporation of additional linguistic resource has been often prohibited in order to focus on the basic mechanism of word alignment in many machine translation evaluation campaigns. However, recent trend is to obtain better performance when we ...
... for a word aligner which considers semantic knowledge. Incorporation of additional linguistic resource has been often prohibited in order to focus on the basic mechanism of word alignment in many machine translation evaluation campaigns. However, recent trend is to obtain better performance when we ...
Style Guide - School of Communication and Arts
... Each news organisation has its own style guide, and while many are similar they’re not identical. So if they’re similar why not have just one? The reason is partly about ‘correct writing’ but it’s also about consistency and standards of editorial performance. What one news organisation thinks is imp ...
... Each news organisation has its own style guide, and while many are similar they’re not identical. So if they’re similar why not have just one? The reason is partly about ‘correct writing’ but it’s also about consistency and standards of editorial performance. What one news organisation thinks is imp ...
gems: a model of sentence production
... predicates that are found in ENC. The only difference is that the units which are found in a lexical entry have letter codes and not number codes on their arguments and labels. (The number codes show the llnklngs among the various units within ENC and, as we will see, within a sentence's meaning. Th ...
... predicates that are found in ENC. The only difference is that the units which are found in a lexical entry have letter codes and not number codes on their arguments and labels. (The number codes show the llnklngs among the various units within ENC and, as we will see, within a sentence's meaning. Th ...
Adversative conjunction choice in Russian ( no, da, odnako
... type of the following constituent, or both. If the two constituents were always of the same type, there would be no way to distinguish between the three possibilities. The existence of asymmetric constructions like the ones in (7)–(11) allows us to investigate this question. In particular, if we fin ...
... type of the following constituent, or both. If the two constituents were always of the same type, there would be no way to distinguish between the three possibilities. The existence of asymmetric constructions like the ones in (7)–(11) allows us to investigate this question. In particular, if we fin ...
VaYishLach - RashiYomi
... Every language has connective words which can connect two sentences or connect nouns with the adjectival phrases modifying them. Some common examples of connective words in English are because, and, or, if-then, from, when, .... A beautiful discovery by Rashi, following the researchers of the Midras ...
... Every language has connective words which can connect two sentences or connect nouns with the adjectival phrases modifying them. Some common examples of connective words in English are because, and, or, if-then, from, when, .... A beautiful discovery by Rashi, following the researchers of the Midras ...
quantitative and qualitative - BU Blogs
... Let us begin with a discussion of the concept of “precision.” Note that to simply recode a dichotomous natural-language category as a series of binary numbers does not make it any more precise. Thus, 0/1 is no more precise than “pregnant/not pregnant.” However, numerical scales offer the possibility ...
... Let us begin with a discussion of the concept of “precision.” Note that to simply recode a dichotomous natural-language category as a series of binary numbers does not make it any more precise. Thus, 0/1 is no more precise than “pregnant/not pregnant.” However, numerical scales offer the possibility ...
Egenéto he basileia tou kosmou tou kyríou hêmon kai tou
... Practical Neo-Quenya: Report on the Johannine Bible translation project [A version of this article first appeared in Arda Philology #2.] Post-Tolkien attempts to write in Quenya, resulting in so-called “Neo-Quenya” texts, have been going on since at least the late seventies. In 1987 a substantial am ...
... Practical Neo-Quenya: Report on the Johannine Bible translation project [A version of this article first appeared in Arda Philology #2.] Post-Tolkien attempts to write in Quenya, resulting in so-called “Neo-Quenya” texts, have been going on since at least the late seventies. In 1987 a substantial am ...
Word meaning, sentence meaning, and syntactic
... Crucially, as Goldberg and Fauconnier and Turner (1996) have demonstrated, examples like (5–8) cannot easily be viewed as marginal or special cases. Sentence (5), for example, exemplifies a lexicalization pattern – conflation of manner and motion – which Talmy (1985) and Slobin (1997) have shown to ...
... Crucially, as Goldberg and Fauconnier and Turner (1996) have demonstrated, examples like (5–8) cannot easily be viewed as marginal or special cases. Sentence (5), for example, exemplifies a lexicalization pattern – conflation of manner and motion – which Talmy (1985) and Slobin (1997) have shown to ...
FRAME SEMANTICS Miriam RL Petruck
... interrupted an air flight. Thus, the different words assume different perspectives on or schematizations of the same scene; understanding the choice of words for talking about that scene requires appealing to the history of events leading up to it. (See Fillmore 1977b:128-136 and Fillmore 1982:124-1 ...
... interrupted an air flight. Thus, the different words assume different perspectives on or schematizations of the same scene; understanding the choice of words for talking about that scene requires appealing to the history of events leading up to it. (See Fillmore 1977b:128-136 and Fillmore 1982:124-1 ...
Sentence diagram generation using dependency parsing
... our algorithm takes in a set of dependency relations S and a set of actions (possible objects and methods to call) A. This paper describes an algorithm that takes in the 55 relations from (Marneffe et al., 2006) and the actions in Table 1. The algorithm then takes as input a directed graph G represe ...
... our algorithm takes in a set of dependency relations S and a set of actions (possible objects and methods to call) A. This paper describes an algorithm that takes in the 55 relations from (Marneffe et al., 2006) and the actions in Table 1. The algorithm then takes as input a directed graph G represe ...
How Sentence Stress Works - KSU Faculty Member websites
... To practice and facilitate this, there are a number of activities and games that can be employed. Worksheets with lists of sentences (preferably using corresponding Phonics material or “key language” phrases) can be distributed to the students where they listen and circle the stressed words they ...
... To practice and facilitate this, there are a number of activities and games that can be employed. Worksheets with lists of sentences (preferably using corresponding Phonics material or “key language” phrases) can be distributed to the students where they listen and circle the stressed words they ...
A Study of the Microstructure of Monolingual Urdu Dictionaries
... not to provide lexical relations. The figures in Table 2-b and the discussion indicate that these Urdu dictionaries mostly include synonyms as meanings, even though it creates ambiguities. This may be the reason these dictionaries avoid giving importance to synonymy as an additional element. The NOD ...
... not to provide lexical relations. The figures in Table 2-b and the discussion indicate that these Urdu dictionaries mostly include synonyms as meanings, even though it creates ambiguities. This may be the reason these dictionaries avoid giving importance to synonymy as an additional element. The NOD ...
n linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis, and
... cat is to cats and as dish is to dishes. In this case, the analogy applies both to the form of the words and to their meaning: in each pair, the first word means "one of X", while the second "two or more of X", and the difference is always the plural form -s affixed to the second word, signaling the ...
... cat is to cats and as dish is to dishes. In this case, the analogy applies both to the form of the words and to their meaning: in each pair, the first word means "one of X", while the second "two or more of X", and the difference is always the plural form -s affixed to the second word, signaling the ...
Annotating Honorifics Denoting Social Ranking of Referents
... Regarding 1, honorifics tell which referent is higher in rank, so each referent must be assigned a rank to make use of honorific information. This is crucial when generating sentences to assign appropriate forms of honorific nouns and predicates in machine translation output into Japanese. In proces ...
... Regarding 1, honorifics tell which referent is higher in rank, so each referent must be assigned a rank to make use of honorific information. This is crucial when generating sentences to assign appropriate forms of honorific nouns and predicates in machine translation output into Japanese. In proces ...
Idiomatic variants and synonymous idioms in English
... Idiomatic variants are idioms having the same contents and grammatical structures or having different components belonging to the same field of meaning. 2.2. What is meant by “synonymous idioms”? Synonymy (synonymia in ancient Egyptian) means “the same name” and displays the relationship between two ...
... Idiomatic variants are idioms having the same contents and grammatical structures or having different components belonging to the same field of meaning. 2.2. What is meant by “synonymous idioms”? Synonymy (synonymia in ancient Egyptian) means “the same name” and displays the relationship between two ...
linguistic features of pun, its typology and classification
... Walter Redfern succinctly says: "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms". Considering the above mentioned definitions and the study of empirical material, we can come to the conclusion and say that the pun is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases fo ...
... Walter Redfern succinctly says: "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms". Considering the above mentioned definitions and the study of empirical material, we can come to the conclusion and say that the pun is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases fo ...