(122-134) Some proposals on orthography

Some Modest Proposals on the Vice-Presidency

On some proposals for the semantics of mass nouns

entities. What are we to say of such sentences as ‘gold is yellow’? We cannot attribute yellowness to an abstract entity we must instead construe this as an assertion about quantities of Gold. Generally, what seem to be direct attributions to a thing (viz., the thing denoted by a mass name) turn out to be indirect attributions to quantities of that thing. Moravcsik says that, intuitively, the s...

Some proposals for combining ensemble classifiers

Acknowledgements It is a great pleasure to thank those people whose company I enjoyed in my lovely PhD journey. It is difficult to overstate my gratitude to my friend and Ph.D. supervisor, Prof. Giuliano Armano. During these three years, he gave me an opportunity to learn not only how to be a thinker but most importantly be a life lover. Working with him was an honor which remains with me for e...

Mental incapacity: some proposals for legislative reform.

While the decision of the House of Lords in Re F in [1990] clarified somewhat the law concerning the treatment of the mentally incapacitated adult, many uncertainties remained. This paper explores proposals discussed in a recent government green paper for reform of the law in an area involving many difficult ethical dilemmas.

Some Proposals towards a More Rigorous Corpus

Over the past few decades, corpus linguistics has evolved into a fully-fledged methodological approach with an increasing number of scholars using various different methods. In this rather programmatic paper, I will argue, however, that corpus linguistics has, in some respects at least, still some way to go in terms of developing rigorous tools and methods and using them more often. More specif...