Multiplicity and Modifiers

Degree modifiers and monotonicity

This paper concerns the question of what it takes to be a degree modifier.1 In particular, I propose an account of why only certain predicates can be assigned degree manipulating functions. The proposal relies on a semantic typology of predicates which is based on the (monotonicity) inferences licensed by such predicates. The main observation is that on the assumption that any predicate could i...

Continuations and adverbial modifiers

We extend de Groote’s approach to natural language or Montague semantics with labels and combine it with Parsons event semantics. We argue that within this framework continuations allow one to deal with adverbs.

acquisition of noun modifiers by persian(l1) learners of english (l2) and french (l3)

توجه این تحقیق بر موضوع یادگیری زبان سوم بوده ونقش زبان های پیشین در یادگیری زبان جدید را بررسی میکند. بدین منظور، بعضی از ساختارهای توصیف کننده های اسمی همانند اسم بعد از اعداد جمع و صفت های شمارشی، صفات توصیفی،و صفات ملکی انتخاب شدند. سه زبان مورد بررسی فارسی (زبان اول)، انگلیسی (زبان دوم)، و فرانسه (زبان سوم) بودند. هدف، تعیین میزان مراجعه زبان آموزان به زبان های اول و دومشان در یادگیری ساخت...

Medium-modified average multiplicity and multiplicity fluctuations in jets

The energy evolution of average multiplicities and multiplicity fluctuations in jets produced in heavy-ion collisions is investigated from a toy QCD-inspired model. In this model, we use modified splitting functions accounting for medium-enhanced radiation of gluons by a fast parton which propagates through the quark gluon plasma. The leading contribution of the standard production of soft hadr...

Property Modifiers