This paper investigates the type of systematic sense alternation that rests on the count-mass distinction in English. Computational semantic approaches often suggest treating such sense alterations as being generated on the basis of a set of lexical inference rules, yielding, for instance, for an animal-denoting term, a meat sense ( ̳We‘re having rabbit for dinner‘), a fur sense ( ̳Annie is weari...

The book develops a theory of Fregean sense to a mature form. It consists of only five chapters, which is perhaps surprising given its volume. The first chapter, “A programme of general semantics”, describes the philosophical foundations of procedural semantics informally and then presents the technical fundamentals of this programme. This chapter is crucial for the comprehension of the book, a...

The recently recognized aetosaur Tecovasuchus chatterjeei Martz and Small occurs at several localities in lower Chinle Group strata across Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Based on lithostratigraphic correlation and other vertebrate occurrences, all Tecovasuchus occurrences are of Adamanian age. Indeed, all occurrences are consistent with assignment to the St. Johnsian sub-land vertebrate faunac...

We propose a short introduction to the Data-Parallel programming model. We show that parallel computing often makes little distinction between the execution model and the programming model. This results in poor programming and low portability. Using the \GOTO considered harmful" seminal analogy, we show that data-parallelism can be seen as a way out of this collapsing. We show that this model w...

To support the quality of service (QoS) requirements of embedded multimedia applications, such as real-time audio and video, electronic mail and fax, and Internet telephony, off-theshelf middleware like CORBA must be flexible, efficient, and predictable. Moreover, stringent memory constraints imposed by embedded system hardware necessitates a minimal footprint for middleware that supports multi...

or introduced by an attitude operator, there could in principle be further syntactic constraints on the relation between a De Se pronoun and its antecedent. Percus & Sauerland (2003b) claim that such constraints exist in dream reports, as in (48): (48) a. John dreamed that he was marrying his granddaughter. b. John dreamed that his granddaughter was marrying him. They argue on the basis of intr...

Eubrachyurans are currently divided into two subsections based on the anatomical position of the seminal duct termini. Heterotremes have the seminal ducts passing through the pereiopod 5 coxae, emerging externally in the form of “penes” to contact the basal segments of the gonopods. Thoracotrematous crabs, on the other hand, have the “male openings” located on sternite 8 and the ejaculatory duc...

Suppose a sentence of the following form is true in a certain context: ‘Necessarily, whenever one believes that the F is uniquely F if anything is, and x is the F, one believes that x is uniquely F if anything is’. I argue that almost always, in such a case, the sentences that result when both occurrences of ‘believes’ are replaced with ‘has justification to believe’, ‘knows’, or ‘knows a prior...