Expressivists have a problem with negation. The problem is that they have not, to date, been able to explain why ‘murdering is wrong’ and ‘murdering is not wrong’ are inconsistent sentences. In this paper, I explain the nature of the problem, and why the best efforts of Gibbard, Dreier, and Horgan and Timmons don’t solve it. Then I show how to diagnose where the problem comes from, and conseque...

This paper presents the design and algorithms of a morpho-semantic analyzer to parse the Japanese verb phrases of simple sentences. This parser aims to understand the whole semantics of verb phrases by parsing them into semantic units, and thus differs from existing morphological analyzers that primarily segment sentences into morpho-phonemes, labeled with the classifications. Unlike other stat...

This paper describes a formal system for building precise, logical meanings for spoken directions out of elementary trees, which define each word’s logical predicates and variable scopes, and can be tractably interpreted over all possible analyses of an input. The paper then describes how this formalism provides a compositional analysis for a number of common linguistic constructions found in c...

Both scholars of American Jewry and advocates working in Jewish communities have linked a moral commitment to greater inclusion ethnically racially diverse Jews with constructivist approach toward the study identity. What has gone unquestioned is applicability this all types Jews. In article, I examine assumptions embedded social scientific notion identity argue for acknowledgment interrogation...

The current research presents a system that learns to understand object names, spatial relation terms and event descriptions from observing narrated action sequences. The system extracts meaning from observed visual scenes by exploiting perceptual primitives related to motion and contact in order to represent events and spatial relations as predicate-argument structures. Learning the mapping be...

The present paper deals with the double verb patterns go-and-V and go-V. While generative approaches have argued that the latter are truncated surface forms derived from the former, the present paper adds to the empirical evidence obtained so far, arguing in favor of the view that the two patterns be adequately conceived of as separate constructions (the notion of construction being defined in ...

Constituency parser performance is primarily interpreted through a single metric, F-score on WSJ section 23, that conveys no linguistic information regarding the remaining errors. We classify errors within a set of linguistically meaningful types using tree transformations that repair groups of errors together. We use this analysis to answer a range of questions about parser behaviour, includin...

The role and nature of syntactic categories in language acquisition is unresolved. While many researchers assume that children have innate knowledge about syntactic categories which helps them to acquire syntax, others assume that children’s early syntactic theories are semantically based and learned. In this paper I will summarize evidence against both a syntactic and a semantic basis for chil...

Recent findings suggest that i) children can build initial verb entries on the basis of syntactic information alone without any additional information provided by a visual context, and ii) that the early representation of verbs encompasses statistical information on the co-occurrence of these verbs with their potential meanings/referents, enabling children to infer verb meanings under referenti...