This paper presents a new rule-based method to identify Spanish zero pronouns. The paper describes the comparative evaluation of a baseline method for the identification of zero pronouns with an approach that supplements the baseline by adding a set of restrictions treating impersonal sentences and other zero subject expressions. The identification rules have been tested on a new corpus in whic...

Going from personal to impersonal exchange seems to be a relevant feature that allows humans to develop complex societies and grow prosperous. Adam Smith’s idea of moral imagination, embodied in the impartial spectator and achieved through sympathy, may integrate and complement today’s evolutionary biology and experimental economic explanations, providing the missing key as to how we generate a...

S u m m a r y Tim paper demonstrates tim problem of translating modal verbs and phrases and shows how some of these problems can be overcome by choosing semantic representations which look like representations of passive verbs. These semantic representations suit alternative ways of expressing modality by e.g. passive constructions, adverbs and impersonal constructions in the target language. V...

Decentralized and impersonal exchange is fundamental to contemporary economies, where many interactions take place among individuals with low levels of information about their counterpart. We review the experimental literature about markets with frictions, where strangers interact in pairs formed at random in economies of indefinite duration. We focus on the impact of communication on the effic...

In recent years a succession of writers has lamented that a society which has the highest standard of living should also have the lowest standard of dying. Death, they maintain, has replaced sex as the most unmentionable taboo, and the act of dying has become lonely, mechanical, dehumanised, and at times gruesome.' Some have referred to the "obscenity of modern dying," exemplified by an imperso...

The growth of contemporary positivistic trust in computational tools inspired semiotics to contribute the debate on strategies communication truth. In order study these data images, article features a framework modeled theory impersonal enunciation. utterer is believed assure super-personal enunciation understood as impartial and true. Furthermore, it will be observed how subjectivities are any...

The presence of an opinion editorial (op-ed) page has provided room for the public to articulate their ideas about recent salient issues at no cost. notion that authors op-ed article could express and arguments in space makes them need certain devices like hedges protect themselves from any negative consequences such as rejection readers if fact argument is considered false. This intended inves...