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This article presents the notions of predicate and predication from the viewpoint of Functional Grammar (FG). Although these are traditionally semantic notions, FG regards them as being above all instrumental in verbal interaction, on the... more
T-SQL, dialect of SQL, is a language used for a relational database management system (primarily Microsoft’s SQL Server), which in turn is based on the relational model. Understanding some of the key foundation principals can help in a... more
There is a morpheme li in Mauritian Creole (MC), which is homophonous with the 3sg pronoun (meaning ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’, ‘him’, ‘her’), and which, in the early creole, occurs frequently between the subject and the predicate in affirmative,... more
Tentative a presenter les premiers pas d'une semantique-comportant-l'ontologie et d'une ontologie-recapitulant-la semantique. L'A. insiste sur la differenciation de sa conception de celles d'autres auteurs dans ces... more
An alternative way in which Frege could argue for deflationism.
It is a commonly accepted view in the Hungarian linguistic literature that sentence structure is determined by information structure, viewed as a phrase structure theoretic interpretation of the topic–comment articulation of the sentence.... more
The paper investigates the stative psych verb (such as mwusep-ta 'be-frightening(-to)') construction in Korean with an 'EXP' with a topic marker. Syntactic restrictions on this construction are considered; the construction is compared... more
This paper examines a type of noun incorporation and its related patterns of doubling in Budai Rukai (Austronesian, Taiwan). An incorporated nominal root is indefinite and forms a close morphological bond with the incorporating verb. The... more
Los factores diferenciales entre una y otra construccioón han sido captados mediante la "Hipótesis de la Definición" (HD)3, que establece que la distinción radica en la interrelación entre orden de constituyentes y estructura... more
In this paper, a semantic classification for Persian adjectival preverbs based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory is presented: adjectival preverbs that demonstrate metaphorical shift and adjectival preverbs which lack metaphorical shift. The... more
In his Logical Investigations Edmund Husserl distinguishes between two ap-proaches to logic that he terms respectively 'objective' and 'phenomenological'. The first of these is an approach that was as prevalent among... more
Predicate testing is a common approach to software testing, which requires certain types of tests for each predicate in a program. The main difficulty in predicate testing is testing compound predicates. One way to test a compound... more
Lecture held at the conference LANGUAGES: NATURAL, HUMAN AND ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS OF COMMUNICATION, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, February 6, 2017 — <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeZHmcI0PaA> ———— See also... more
This paper is a cross-linguistic investigation of meteorological expressions (such asit is snowingorthe wind blows). The paper proposes a three-fold typology of meteorological constructions according to the element primarily responsible... more
A parallel is drawn between two clause-types carrying an obligatory pro-form:wh-questions and the so-called free relative of pseudo-clefts. In the analysis both types are derived from a single counterpart which is structurally simpler.... more