this paper aims at investigating evidentiality in contemporary persian from a typological point of view. first the category of evidentiality and its types in the languages of the world is introduced. gathering and analysing data of spoken and written form of this language as well as classic texts,  an attempt was made to see whether evidentiality exists in this language as a grammatical categor...

People automatically imitate observed actions, including speech. Automatic Imitation (AI) is linked to observationexecution associations in the mirror neuron system (MNS). AI is measured using interference tasks, in which prompts (say ”ba” or ”da”) are paired with congruent or incongruent distracters (video of someone saying ”ba” or ”da”). Faster responses for congruent than for incongruent pro...

*Department of Neurology of Faculty of Medical Sciences of State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil; yASPE (Assistência à Saúde de Pacientes com Epilepsia), Campinas, SP, Brazil; zCInAPCe Program (Cooperação Interinstitucional de Apoio à Pesquisas sobre o Cérebro), São Paulo State, Brazil; and xDepartment of Social and Preventive Medicine of Medical Sciences of State Univers...

2 Abbreviations used in the glosses: dem = demonstrative pronoun, n = neuter, nn = nonneuter, sg = singular, pl = plural, inv = inversion form, pcple = past participle.

We show how to use ‘uncertainty’ in place of the more traditional Brownian ‘randomness’ to model a short-term interest rate. The advantage of this model is principally that it is difficult to show statistically that it is wrong. Whether the model is useful for pricing fixed-income products is less clear. We discuss the pros and cons of the model, showing how to price and hedge various contracts...