Smooth Signals and Syntactic Change

What Changes in ‘Syntactic Change’? Some Implications for Syntactic Reconstruction

1. Much of the debate surrounding the issue of syntactic reconstruction seems to me to be confounded by a certain degree of terminological (and perhaps conceptual) imprecision. In today’s talk I would like to present some aspects of the problem, walking through how they look to someone who makes the set of assumptions that I make regarding how historical linguistics works, what syntax is, what ...

Syntactic Characterizations of Belief Change Operators

We provide syntactic characterizations for a number of propositional model-based belief revision and update operators proposed in the literature, as well as algorithms based on these characterizations.

LFG as a Model of Syntactic Change

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The Smooth Base Change Theorem

Smooth biproximity spaces and P-smooth quasi-proximity spaces

The notion of smooth biproximity space  where $delta_1,delta_2$ are gradation proximities defined by Ghanim et al. [10]. In this paper, we show every smooth biproximity space $(X,delta_1,delta_2)$ induces a supra smooth proximity space $delta_{12}$ finer than $delta_1$ and $delta_2$. We study the relationship between $(X,delta_{12})$ and the $FP^*$-separation axioms which had been introduced by...