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Propositional Logic for Infinitive Sentences
This paper is about sentences of form To be human is to be an animal , To live is to fight , etc. I call them ‘infinitive sentences’. I define an...
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Syllogistic Relevance and Term Logic
Term Functor Logic is a term logic that recovers some important features of the traditional, Aristotelian logic; however, it turns out that it does...
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Same and different are additive presupposition triggers
We propose an account of interpretive effects involving same and different , relying on two claims: the first is that same and different are able to...
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Power and Personal Experience in Online Anonymous Communities: A Corpus-Driven Exploration
The paper presents an innovative corpus study on Personal Experience as a pragmatic-discursive resource to express power in anonymous online...
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Truth, topicality, and transparency: one-component versus two-component semantics
When do two sentences say the same thing, that is, express the same content? We defend two-component (2C) semantics: the view that propositional...
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Emergent Pragmatic Conventions in Spoken ELF Corpus Data: Micro-Diachronic Analysis of Inclusive vs. Exclusive Multilingual Practices
This article examines multilingual practices as an example of emergent pragmatic conventions in three Transient International Groups (TIGs) using...
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Modal tense: if and wish
This paper is concerned with uses of certain morphemes, most notably the past, to represent meanings of distance from reality in modal expressions....
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Ignorance and concession with superlative modifiers: a cross-linguistic perspective
Superlative modifiers (SMs) are known to demonstrate an ambiguity between an epistemic reading (EPI) conveying speaker ignorance and a concessive...
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Algebraic Completeness of Connexive and Bi-Intuitionistic Multilattice Logics
In this paper, we introduce the notions of connexive and bi-intuitionistic multilattices and develop on their base the algebraic semantics for...
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Rules of Explosion and Excluded Middle: Constructing a Unified Single-Succedent Gentzen-Style Framework for Classical, Paradefinite, Paraconsistent, and Paracomplete Logics
A unified and modular falsification-aware single-succedent Gentzen-style framework is introduced for classical, paradefinite, paraconsistent, and...
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Frequency and Variability in the Use of Modal Verbs in Zimbabwean English
This corpus-based exploratory study examines modal verbs in Zimbabwean English (ZimE), and British English, to determine whether there are variations...
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Expressive Power and Intensional Operators
In Entities and Indices , M. J. Cresswell argued that a first-order modal language can reach the expressive power of natural-language modal discourse...
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Review of Development and Application of a Multimodal Corpus for Learners? Pragmatic Competence
Pragmatic competence, a kind of comprehensive language ability, has expanded its scope and approach as the increasingly important status of English...
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Exploring Ghanaians’ Usage of ei, ehe, eh, and eish in Global Web-Based English Corpus
Studies have shown that speakers of New Englishes borrow interjections and other linguistic forms from their indigenous languages to express what...
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Mental states via possessive predication: the grammar of possessive experiencer complex predicates in Persian
Persian possesses a number of stative complex predicates with dâshtan ‘to have’ that express certain kinds of mental state. I propose that these posses...
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Intention reports and eventuality abstraction in a theory of mood choice
Recent work on mood choice considers fine-grained semantic differences among desire predicates (notably, ‘want’ and ‘hope’) and their consequences...
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Investigating Appraisal and the Language of Evaluation in Fake News Corpora
The present corpus study, which is grounded in Appraisal Theory, investigates evaluative language use in fake news in English. The primary aim is to...
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Eventive modal projection: the case of Spanish subjunctive relative clauses
How do modal expressions determine which possibilities they range over? According to the Modal Anchor Hypothesis (Kratzer in The language-cognition...
