J. Biddulph's Sarikoli sentences

"Linguistic" sentences and "real" sentences

This p~$r Id~ntift~ iwe klr¢ds of sentences: "llngulsUc" sentences ~ J "r~al" a~-ntence~. "l't~,~ former is a kind of sentel~'~,e~ that ar~ often discussed in (cemputatkmal) Ungulstlc literatures, sucll as the:re In i:lgure 1. The latter, on the other hand, is a kind of senteace=~ that appear in practical applications, such as those In Flgu='e 2. Where~ts both are grammatical English sentences,...

Clustering Sentences - Making Sense of Synonymous Sentences

Some Sentences on Our Consciousness of Sentences

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Religion and Spirituality: Adam Smith versus J-J Rousseau

Adam Smith and J-J Rousseau share some common ground when it comes to religion, namely that they were born into  and educated in cultural contexts deeply shaped by Reformed Christianity. However, close consideration of their writings on religion reveal marked difference. This paper explores those differences and finds that Rousseau and Smith are radically at odds on this score. Smith has almost...

Identificational sentences

This paper gives a novel analysis of identificational sentences such as This is Mary, That is a beautiful woman, or This looks like Mary based on the notion of a trope. On that analysis, bare demonstratives in the subject position of an identificational sentence involve reference to a trope as the direct object of perception and the sentence itself states the identification of the bearer of the...