| It's enough to make anybody believe in the feasibility of linguistic semantics, at least for a while. |
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| The real communication problems arise surely from divergent vocabulary and semantics. |
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| From logic we have model-theoretic semantics, and from that possible-worlds analyses of modal and epistemic discourse. |
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| Had I stumbled on a right-wing plot to subvert the semantics of English collective nouns? |
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| Most procedural programming languages follow natural semantics of control flow and hence are easy to understand. |
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| I then present three arguments that this dynamic approach is more faithful to natural language semantics than static Montagovian theories. |
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| But this interpretation is outlawed by the semantics of referential dependence associated with reflexives. |
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| These patients have severe phonological deficits in the assembled phonology pathway, and appear to read exclusively via semantics. |
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| She combines the methods of history, semantics, and semiotics to show how and why the formulae were first adopted in organic chemistry. |
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| The issue here is not one of political semantics but of analysis and prescription. |
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| However, I'd be willing to let the semantics go were the film not so dreadful. |
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| It's too bad that linguists who study syntax, semantics and pragmatics have not been involved in this enterprise to any significant extent. |
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| Infants begin by babbling and cooing, progress to holophrasis and by age three to four children are working on semantics and pragmatics. |
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| His remarks on French, focus on syntax and semantics, all but omitting phonology, phonetics and orthography. |
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| But Rayner also readily acknowledges that orthography, semantics and syntax are important in reading. |
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| At least in some orthographies, semantics play a larger role in single-word naming than previously thought. |
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| It may come down to semantics and splitting hairs, but it doesn't actually say anywhere in the constitution that Japan can't have an army. |
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| I even know of non-native speakers who work almost solely on English semantics. |
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| These relations are parametered by fuzzy sets which provide a semantics for the notions of negligibility and closeness. |
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| This is an experimental work devoted to linking words through sound, to the near exclusion of semantics. |
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| A good deal of linguistics, both in the Bloomfieldian and the Chomskyan traditions, has simply ignored semantics. |
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| The author reveals the encoded semantics of images depicted on amulets, drawings, potter's stamps, and toreutics. |
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| These well-meaning campaigners are chronically tone-deaf to pop cultural semantics and subtleties. |
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| It is assumed that you already know the syntax of Ada and have a rudimentary understanding of the semantics. |
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| And while this particular statement may lack the torturous semantics of its predecessors, it still adds up to in-your-face guff. |
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| It combines elements of logical flow with questions of semantics, word association, and indeed outright mistake. |
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| Lost in semantics and tears, he heads to his mother's house, where he hopes he at least will be in time for dinner. |
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| Song thus contains both words and music, but speech performance is also more than just a neutral deliverance of verbal semantics. |
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| We all try for the same goal, in the end, though we call it by different names and kill each other over the semantics. |
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| It's not a matter of semantics this time, as were my arguments with people over what to call the sniper. |
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| This causes problems when a client is coded to use one service, but tries to use another service with different semantics. |
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| If you have read anything by him you have had a primer on general semantics. |
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| And if we all were to do that, we would realize that we don't need to fight over formalities and semantics. |
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| I was taught that semantics is about meaning as something that sentences have, whereas pragmatics is about meaning as something that people do. |
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| We must attend to social and cultural history in order to make sense of semantics. |
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| I was proud of myself for giving up for a while, than resigned, and then I realized that the whole thing was semantics anyway. |
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| The question raised from this semantics is, where does the causative interpretation of resultatives come from? |
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| A change in language, in the fundamentals, in the semantics, the grammar, the very essence of the language. |
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| These iconographies dictate the semantics of his copper extracts and moderate to become the lexicon of his visual language. |
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| In Latin, perfective and aoristic semantics fused in the perfect, leaving the perfect and imperfect stems. |
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| She had her semantics in apple-pie order, and emerged if not unsoiled, then at least unbloodied. |
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| This paper describes a family of logics whose categorical semantics is based on functors with structure rather than on categories with structure. |
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| Supposedly, there's never been a form of semantics, a language, that has existed that long. |
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| This paper focuses on the semantics of implicit arguments and compares it with that of explicit indefinites. |
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| That is, the structure, semantics, composition and constructs of Maori language itself. |
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| It is significant that many linguists have sought to limit the role of polysemy in linguistic semantics, if not to eliminate it altogether. |
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| We are not in the habit of using semantics, textual analysis, critical theory and metaphors. |
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| Other applications of semantics include machine translation and direct generation of language by computers. |
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| I cannot accept these submissions which I have to say on occasions seemed to me to savour of semantics. |
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| The approach combines a constrained-based semantics with a general mechanism of conversational implicature. |
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| Such a semantics states truth conditions for counterfactuals in terms of relations among possible worlds. |
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| My argument is a terminological one, not in order to have tidy semantics, but because words can govern other behaviors. |
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| The following is a very interesting exercise in semantics and is not intended to offend. |
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| This conclusion is not about semantics or language but has enormous implications. |
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| At that moment, no amount of language twists or Libertarian semantics will be able to trick God. |
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| Again, there's some more general semantics, and maybe something extra. |
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| Well, linguistician that I am, my first thoughts set me to playing about with semantics and, as is my wont on these occasions, to casting my thoughts back to the bard. |
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| Her disassociation with the feminist label and its negative connotations just boils down to semantics. |
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| But the wiser voices in the movement know that, now, they face much graver problems than semantics. |
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| Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour engaged in a battle of semantics with Candy Crowley on CNN's State of the Union. |
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| Frame semantics is a linguistic theory which is currently gaining ground. |
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| As I've mentioned before, I wrote a paper on Tagalog semantics. |
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| So his little game of semantics backfires on him, a very interesting development indeed considering how clever he can be at manipulating a situation. |
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| The point is that the semantics we use are not tick box mechanisms. |
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| Internalist semantics could really have saved a lot of trouble here. |
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| Again, this kind of statement is born out of faulty semantics. |
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| Another characteristic of the semantics of slang is the tendency to name things indirectly and figuratively, especially through metaphor, metonymy, and irony. |
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| From another angle, the problem of meaning has involved questions about the mechanism of reference and the semantics of various terms in natural languages. |
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| Tarski's theory of truth relies crucially on the distinction between object languages and meta-languages, and so semantics generally seems to be necessarily a meta-discipline. |
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| These include matters of epistemology, ontology, semantics, and logic. |
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| A master list was formed using the codings from the two reviewers, and guidelines were grouped together based on similarities in semantics and therapeutic purpose. |
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| However, all these semantics were soon forgotten when the largest steamer of mussels arrived, complete with another bowl for the shells and a finger bowl. |
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| But he will need more than semantics to see him through this one the more so as he is pledged to cut the public spending increase to single digits by 2004 and onwards. |
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| Questions such as how clinicians can be patient centred in email consultations require innovative approaches to researching consultations that place emphasis on semantics. |
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| What differs, I submit, is not the semantics, but the pragmatics. |
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| Bleached conditionals probably tell us something about the semantics or the pragmatics of conditionals, though I have never been able to put my finger on exactly what. |
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| Consequently it has provided a testing ground for a number of competing hypotheses concerning the relationship between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in linguistic theory. |
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| As in the pronominal anaphora case, descriptive material does the work that reference does in most other accounts of the semantics of temporal and modal discourse. |
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| In his polymathic text called Science and Sanity, Korzybski introduced the world to non-Aristotelian systems and general semantics. |
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| These algebras provide a semantics for classical and intuitionistic logic respectively. |
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| The formal semantics of knowledge representation systems allows us to interpret ontological definitions as a set of logical axioms. |
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| The manual pages describe the signatures, structures, and functors specified by the Library, and their semantics. |
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| The Wuvulu verbal aspect is hard to organize because of its number of morpheme combination and interaction of semantics between morpheme. |
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| A fixed or prototypical word order is one out of many ways to ease the processing of sentence semantics and reducing ambiguity. |
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| Prepositions inflect for person and number, and different prepositions govern different cases, sometimes depending on the semantics intended. |
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| They often have no semantic meaning in themselves, though they may affect the semantics of brivla to which they are attached. |
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| However, semantics does not study the way in which social conventions are made and affect language. |
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| The meaning that is connected to individual signs, morphemes, words, phrases, and texts is called semantics. |
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| The difference between an association and an aggregation is entirely conceptual and is focused strictly on semantics. |
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| The counterpart semantics for quantified modal logic developed by David Lewis is considered. |
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| A sea lawyer is one who uses semantics, parsing of words, wordplay and other tricks of language in an attempt to mislead someone as to the truth. |
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| Washington has a serious tendency to exalt semantics over common sense. |
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| This paper compares two proposed solutions to the liar paradox, both of which involve revisions to classical semantics. |
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| In that sense, his defense may be correct but only as semantics. |
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| It offers the first digital app rewriter, based on a unique semantics approach. |
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| Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics. |
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| In what could be a test of semantics, a lawyer for NTS disputed Mitguard's account, saying instead the agency called off the testing. |
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| Certainly the domain fades into less delineable areas such as semantics or pragmatics. |
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| Specifically, an argument is valid according to Ockham's semantics if and only if it is valid according to Prior Analytics. |
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| However, this may confuse syntax and semantics, by presupposing that words which denote substances are mass nouns by default. |
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| Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language. |
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| Recently, a new logical framework, called plural logic, has also been used for characterizing the semantics of count nouns and mass nouns. |
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| General semantics extensional devices such as E-prime and dating have been shown to help students write measurable goals that combat IFD disease. |
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| Chapter 3 focuses on proper names and Powell starts with an examination of the semantics and pragmatics of proper nouns. |
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| His contributions to semantics, especially to the maturing theory of supposition, are still studied by logicians. |
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| This may be related to the inherently imagistic nature of the semantics of mimetics. |
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| Stated succinctly, the position of the afficionadi of interleaving semantics seems to be as follows. |
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| The vocabulary, orthography, phonology, and semantics, are all thoroughly European. |
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| Lacan's theories influenced literary criticism of Hamlet because of his alternative vision of the play and his use of semantics to explore the play's psychological landscape. |
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| The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics. |
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| General semantics also would strengthen its position on advancing extensionally oriented stylistic devices with additional empirical and statistical support. |
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| Focus directly affects the semantics, or meaning, of a sentence. |
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| One would of course expect such constructions to possess iconic semantics, plurality or iteration of form being matched by a sememe of plurality or iteration. |
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| Understanding these formalizations is not crucial for understanding the basic idea behind a Kratzerian semantics for 'ought' or the objections I ultimately raise against it. |
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| Therefore, syntactic mechanisms including features and transformations include prosodic information regarding focus that is passed to the semantics and phonology. |
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| I will develop improved connectionist models which capture the time-course of interactions among orthography, phonology, and semantics during word comprehension. |
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| The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes phonology, morphology, and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics. |
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| Direct lexicalization The verb is formally distinct from any noun denoting the event participants, but its semantics include reference to one of the participants. |
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| They cover meaning and reference, truth-theoretic semantics, meaning skepticism, the metaphysics and epistemology of meaning and content, and formal semantics. |
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| The study of proper names is sometimes called onomastics or onomatology while a rigorous analysis of the semantics of proper names is a matter for philosophy of language. |
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| On the semantic side, we have seen that the reduplicated i-stems behave like imperfective present participles, very often with iterative, intensive, or habitual semantics. |
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| Onqelos and Jonathan, particularly, with their preservation of source language form, can offer the hebraist a wealth of information on BH lexical semantics. |
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| Work emanating from Chomsky and lexical semantics, however, puts pressure on this position, for the content of words seems far richer in systematic ways than mere denotation. |
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| It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. |
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| These puzzles concern a species of categorematic terms in mental language, Ockham's absolute terms, and are not unlike the puzzles about proper names in Kripkean semantics. |
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