In this article we propose that there are two universal properties for phonological stop assibilations, namely (i) assibilations cannot be triggered by /i/ unless they are also triggered by /j/, and (ii) voiced stops cannot undergo assibilations unless voiceless ones do. The article presents typological evidence from assibilations in over 30 languages supporting both (i) and (ii). It is argued ...

Invariantism proposed by [Braun, 2013] aims to maintain full identity of semantic content between all uses of ‘might’. I invoke well-known facts regarding diachronic change in meanings of modals to argue that invariantism commits us to implausible duplication of familiar processes of lexical semantic change on the level of “lexical pragmatics”, with no obvious payoff. [Braun, 2013] proposes an ...

The paper defends a naturalistic version of modal actualism according to which what is metaphysically possible is determined by dispositions found in the actual world. We argue that there is just one world – this one – and that all genuine possibilities are grounded in the dispositions exemplified in it. This is the case whether or not those dispositions are manifested. As long as the possibili...

: Based on the setting of exchangeable bets, this paper proposes a subjectivist view of numerical possibility theory. It relies on the assumption that when an agent constructs a probability measure by assigning prices to lotteries, this probability measure is actually induced by a belief function representing the agent’s actual state of knowledge. We also assume that going from an underlying be...

In this paper we will summarize some normative properties of possibility distributions. 1 Probability and Possibility In 2001 Carlsson and Fullér [1] introduced the possibilistic mean value, variance and covariance of fuzzy numbers. In 2003 Fullér and Majlender [4] introduced the notations of crisp weighted possibilistic mean value, variance and covariance of fuzzy numbers, which are consistent...

We provide a domain-theoretic framework for possibility theory by studying possibility measures on the lattice of opens of a topological space. The powerspaces Poss(X) and Poss 0;1] (X) of all such maps extend to functors in the natural way. We may think of possibility measures as continuous valuations by replacing`+' with`_' in their modular law. The functors above send continuous maps to sup-...

In this paper, we present a logical framework for integrating the quantitative and qualitative approaches to uncertainty management based on possibility theory. The semantics of the logic is based on the Dempster’s rule of conditioning for possibility theory. It is then shown that classical modal logic, conditional logic, possibilistic logic, quantitative modal logic and qualitative possibilist...

A small number of the logically possible word order configurations account for a large proportion of actual human languages. To explain this distribution, typologists often invoke principles of human cognition which might make certain orders easier or harder to learn or use. We present a novel method for carrying out very large scale artificial language learning tasks over the internet, which a...