Reducing invariants and total reflexivity

Contexts, Biases, and Reflexivity

In a recent, welcome contribution, Predelli (2013) presents a fruitful and powerful framework on how truth-conditional semantics can deal with non-truth-conditional meaning. One of the gifts of Predelli’s contribution is that it presents a unifying theory dealing with seemingly various phenomena often relegated to the pragmatics dustbin. Thus, nicknames, slurs, answering machines/post-its, voca...

AGI and Reflexivity

We define a property of intelligent systems, which we call Reflexivity. In human beings it is one aspect of consciousness, and an element of deliberation. We propose a conjecture, that this property is conditioned by a topological property of the processes which implement this reflexivity. These processes may be symbolic, or non symbolic e.g. connexionnist. An architecture which implements refl...

Reflexivity and Eigenform

Reflexivity and Resultatives

This paper presents data from Kannada that resist either type of analysis ( 2). The grammar of reflexivity in Kannada reveals that resultatives must be syntactically distinguished both from ECM constructions and from simple transitives. Simple transitives and ECM constructions allow verbal reflexive marking when reflexive, but resultatives do not. To explain this, we assign Kannada resultatives...

Reflexivity and Dependency

The analyses of Pollard and Sag (1992, 1994) and Reinhart and Reuland (1993) answer why certain reflexive pronouns – so-called picture-NP-reflexives – behave anomalously in allowing co-reference with nonbinding antecedents. These reflexives are exempt from Binding Theory’s Principle A because Principle A only requires binding if a potential antecedent is available in a given local domain. The r...