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Faultless disagreement without contradiction: expressive-relativism and predicates of personal taste
In this paper we motivate and develop a new approach to predicates of personal taste within the framework of semantic relativism. Our primary goal is...
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Predicates of personal taste, semantic incompleteness, and necessitarianism
According to indexical contextualism, the perspectival element of taste predicates and epistemic modals is part of the content expressed. According...
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Familiarity inferences, subjective attitudes and counterstance contingency: towards a pragmatic theory of subjective meaning
Subjective predicates have two interpretive and distributional characteristics that have resisted a comprehensive analysis. First, the use of a...
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Acquaintance and evidence in appearance language
Assertions about appearances license inferences about the speaker’s perceptual experience. For instance, if I assert, Tom looks like he’s cooking ,...
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How to theorize about subjective language: a lesson from ‘de re’
Subjective language has attracted substantial attention in the recent literature in formal semantics and philosophy of language (see overviews in...
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The Extraction of Linguistic Knowledge and Construction of Linguistic Resources
In recent years, our research team has completed a series of studies and established a cognition-based, computation-oriented linguistic approach and...
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Occasion-sensitive semantics for objective predicates
In this paper I propose a partition semantics (Groenendijk and Stokhof in Studies on the semantics of questions and the pragmatics of answers, Ph.D....
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The Lexical and Syntactic Properties of MM
Surprisingly, the study of Metaphor of Modality in systemic functional grammar did not devote much research space to their lexicogrammatical...
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Tasting and testing
Our main concern in this paper is the semantics of predicates of personal taste. However, in order to see these predicates in the right perspective,...
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On the nature and organisation of morphological categories: verbal aspect through the lens of associative learning
The process by which awareness and/or knowledge of linguistic categories arises from exposure to patterns in data alone, known as emergence, is the...
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An Anatomy of the Chinese Offensive Lexicon
While offensive words are found in the lexicons of the world’s languages and despite some of their similarities, offensive words are not...
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Relativism about predicates of personal taste and perspectival plurality
In this paper we discuss a phenomenon we call perspectival plurality , which has gone largely unnoticed in the current debate between relativism and...
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Perspectival domains in nouns and clauses
Using data from Nyala East (Luhia, Bantu), I argue that both clauses and nouns are “perspectival domains.” This study primarily focuses on novel...
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Collecting and Categorizing Offensive Words in Chinese
Given the many kinds of offensive words introduced thus far and to narrow down the scope of the present study, Chinese offensive words covered in...
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The indexical character of epistemic modality
We assume a central thesis about modal auxiliaries due to Angelika Kratzer, the modal base presupposition: natural language expressions that contain...
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Proxy control
The control dependency in grammar is conventionally distinguished into two classes: exhaustive ( i → i ) and non-exhaustive ( i → i + ( j )). Here, we show...
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Discourse (I)
Chapter 19 defines the principle terms discourse, coherence, and cohesion to set the stage for introducing the grammar that has attracted increasing...
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The Essence of Architectural Creation
This first chapter argues architecture is fundamentally about sensitive ordering of space. We look to a cluster of Viennese architects (Oskar Strand,...
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A semantics of face emoji in discourse
This paper presents an analysis of face emoji (disc-shaped pictograms with stylized facial expressions) that accompany written text. We propose that...
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Indexicals in Somali
In Somali language, first- and second-person indexicals shift reference in indirect speech. Although certain locative and temporal indexicals change...