Prof. Josef Von Fodor

The "Fodor"-FODOR fallacy bites back

The paper argues that Fodor and Lepore are misguided in their attack on Pustejovsky’s Generative Lexicon, largely because their argument rests on a traditional, but implausible and discredited, view of the lexicon on which it is e ectively empty of content, a view that stands in the long line of explaining word meaning (a) by ostension and then (b) explaining it by means of a vacuous symbol in ...

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Josef Richter

Arguments in English Josef

Despite the idiosyncratic properties of null-complement phenomena observed by Fillmore (1986), Lambrecht and Lemoine (2005), and others, many researchers have pursued large-scope, single-factor explanations of the distributional and interpretive restrictions on null complements—in particular, explanations based on Aktionsart (Rappaport Hovav and Levin 1998) and selectional restrictions (Resnik ...

Josef Spjut Better Hardware Noise

Better Hardware Noise Abstract: Noise such as Perlin Noise is used to provide some amount of repeatable pseudorandomness to many applications. In this document an example of a custom design to accelerate the generation of such noise is presented. This design could be used as a coprocessor, or could be used as a custom functional unit in a larger design. Two versions of the design are analyzed, ...