A theory of register for honorification

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Elin McCready
Keyword(s):  
Type Theory ◽  
Formal Semantic ◽  
Discourse Context ◽  
Semantic Framework ◽  
Expressive Content

This chapter provides a formal semantic framework for the analysis of honorifics which satisfies two key criteria. First, many languages have honorific forms which reference the current discourse context, specifically the relationshipswhich hold between the various contextual agents. This means that any semantics for honorifics must provide a model of a discourse context which makes available the requisite formality relationships and relativizes them to agents; further, given that honorific use can evolve over a discourse, it is necessary to make whatever contexts are introduced dynamic in a way that tracks patterns of honorific use. Provision must also be made for the introduction of expressive properties, which is done via the use of a type-theory based analysis of expressive content.

scholarly journals Integrating Type Theory and Distributional Semantics: A Case Study on Adjective–Noun Compositions

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Asher ◽  
Tim Van de Cruys ◽  
Antoine Bride ◽  
Márta Abrusán
Keyword(s):  
Type Theory ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Formal Semantic ◽  
Distributional Semantics ◽  
Semantic Approach ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Semantic Framework ◽  
Algebraic Interpretation

In this article, we explore an integration of a formal semantic approach to lexical meaning and an approach based on distributional methods. First, we outline a formal semantic theory that aims to combine the virtues of both formal and distributional frameworks. We then proceed to develop an algebraic interpretation of that formal semantic theory and show how at least two kinds of distributional models make this interpretation concrete. Focusing on the case of adjective–noun composition, we compare several distributional models with respect to the semantic information that a formal semantic theory would need, and we show how to integrate the information provided by distributional models back into the formal semantic framework.

scholarly journals A New Perceptual Adverbialism

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (8) ◽  
pp. 413-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin D'Ambrosio ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Common Factor ◽  
Direct Object ◽  
Formal Semantic ◽  
Semantic Framework ◽  
Adverbial Modifiers ◽  
The Many ◽  
English I

In this paper, I develop and defend a new adverbial theory of perception. I first present a semantics for direct-object perceptual reports that treats their object-positions as supplying adverbial modifiers, and I show how this semantics definitively solves the many-property problem for adverbialism. My solution is distinctive in that it articulates adverbialism from within a well-established formal semantic framework and ties adverbialism to a plausible semantics for perceptual reports in English. I then go on to present adverbialism as a theory of the metaphysics of perception. The metaphysics I develop treats adverbial perception as a directed activity: it is an activity with success conditions. When perception is successful, the agent bears a relation to a concrete particular, but perception need not be successful; this allows perception to be fundamentally non-relational. The result is a novel formulation of adverbialism that eliminates the need for representational contents, but also treats successful and unsuccessful perceptual events as having a fundamental common factor.

scholarly journals Switches between Direct and Indirect Speech in Ancient Greek

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emar Maier
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Formal Semantic ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Semantic Framework ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Indirect Discourse ◽  
Mixed Quotation

AbstractI propose a uni ied semantic analysis of two phenomena characteristic of ancient Greek speech reporting, (i) the unmarked switching between direct and indirect discourse, and (ii) the use of οτι ('that') as a quotation introduction. I accommodate these phenomena in a formal semantic framework, where both can be modeled uniformly as instances of mixed quotation.

Type Theory and Formal Proof

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Nederpelt ◽  
Herman Geuvers
Keyword(s):  
Type Theory ◽  
Formal Proof

Strength of Discourse Context as a Determinant of the Subordinate Bias Effect

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 813-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Martin ◽  
Hoang Vu ◽  
George Kellas ◽  
Kimberly Metcalf
Keyword(s):  
Bias Effect ◽  
Discourse Context
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