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 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.

The Evolution of Music Education Philosophy from Utilitarian to Aesthetic

1982 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Mark
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Education Philosophy ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
Evolution Of Music ◽  
The Many ◽  
Education And Society ◽  
The Relationship

Throughout Western history, various philosophies of music education have been articulated by intellectual, political, and religious leaders. A common factor in the various philosophies is the relationship between music education and society. Since the middle of the 20th century, writers on music education philosophy have been mostly music educators, rather than societal leaders. They have, for the most part, abandoned the many historical justifications of the profession in favor of aesthetic philosophy. The utilitarian values of music education that have formed its historical philosophical basis have been rejected during the last 30 years because they have little to do with music. Music is now taught for the sake of music, and the link that has historically connected aesthetics with societal needs has been broken.

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.

Old English i-umlaut (for the umpteenth time)

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
System Of Systems ◽  
Present Formulation ◽  
English Vowels ◽  
Phonetic Features ◽  
The Many ◽  
English I

This article offers an account of i-umlaut in Old English based on lexical minimality: the elimination of redundancies from, in this case, the phonological subentries in the lexicon. And the notation is that of Anderson & Ewen (1987), which is based, crucially for the present formulation, on simplex features which may combine in varying proportions. These assumptions combine to favour system-dependent underspecification. In accord with lexical minimality, the approach taken here is also polysystemic: thus, for instance, Old English vowels, even Old English accented vowels, do not enter into only one system of contrasts. The phonology is a system of systems sharing some but not all contrasts. The article attempts to show that on this basis some of the many apparent anomalies that the evidence has been thought to suggest can be resolved in terms of a simple coherent formulation. Concerning the interpretation of this evidence, it is the intention of the article to minimize appeals to phonetic features and phonetic processes not warranted by textual and comparative testimony. It is suggested that lack of attention to polysystemicity and a pervasive indulgence on the part of historical phonologists in phonetic fantasies undermine the conclusions reached by generations of scholars concerning the development of phonological systems, both in general and in particular.

Carbonatite-melilitite association in the Italian collision zone and the Ugandan rifted craton: significant common factors

2000 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. K. Bailey ◽  
J. D. Collier
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Similar Distribution ◽  
East African ◽  
Type Area ◽  
Igneous Province ◽  
African Rift ◽  
The Many ◽  
Province Level

AbstractItalian carbonatites form part of a suite with melilitites, normally an association characteristic of continental interiors; the perfect analogue of the Italian suite being the kamafugites (from the type area in SW Uganda, where the western branch of the East African Rift Zone cuts across the craton). The latter are commonly attributed to plume generation, whereas the Italian carbonatites, strung along the Appennine front, are usually linked to subduction. Evidently these two mechanisms are not essential, since neither can apply in both provinces. This conclusion is re-inforced by the related magmatism registered in both provinces in the Cretaceous. Phlogopite is ubiquitous in the mantle debris, and compositions from the two provinces overlap. Xenolithic phlogopites are distinct from cognate micas in the lavas, and from the carrier melt compositions, with similar distribution patterns in both suites. Kamafugitic magmas must be products of exceptional conditions, and added to the many near-identical magmatic features, the Italian and Ugandan volcanoes have sampled similar mantle conditions. Although the large scale geodynamic regimes are in total contrast, as are the deep mantle tomographic structures, the crucial common factor at the igneous province level is extensional tectonics. Extension, promoting release of volatiles (esp. CO2), is the vital trigger for this small volume, primary magmatism.

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.

Goal-oriented practice across therapies

2018 ◽  
pp. 181-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Grey ◽  
Suzanne Byrne ◽  
Tracey Taylor ◽  
Avi Shmueli ◽  
Cathy Troupp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Child Psychotherapy ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour ◽  
The Many ◽  
Systemic Family Therapy

This chapter explores goal-oriented practice across therapies: cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychoanalytic child psychotherapy, interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), humanistic and existential therapies, systemic family therapy, and online therapy. Each section gives an overview of the approach and sets out ways that goals are conceptualized, negotiated, and embedded. Examples are given to illustrate how goals are used. Differences are found across these approaches in the methods used to negotiate goals, and the extent that these are made explicit and embedded in the work. Greater similarities are found in the use of goals in CBT and IPT, compared with the less directive modalities of humanistic, psychodynamic, and systemic psychotherapies. Differences are also found within modalities (e.g. psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults versus psychoanalytic child psychotherapy). However, the chapter demonstrates the many similarities in the use of goals as a common factor across these different therapeutic approaches.

Adverbial Modification (May 27, 1970)

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-98
Author(s):  
Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini ◽  
Ernie Lepore
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Logical Form ◽  
Semantic Framework ◽  
Natural Treatment ◽  
Adverbial Modification ◽  
Adverbial Modifiers ◽  
Event Semantic

Lecture V takes up the semantics of adverbial modifiers. Davidson begins with some methodological remarks, offering reasons for optimism about the prospects for giving a truth-theoretic semantics for a full natural language. He then argues that we have reason independent of the semantics of adverbial modifiers to think that an adequate semantics for English will need to quantify over events. Once the possibility of covert quantification over events is granted, Davidson goes on to show how adverbial modification can be given a natural treatment in an event-semantic framework. He concludes with some remarks on the notion of logical form.

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