O romance contemporâneo Crónica de um vendedor de sangue (许三观卖血记, Xǔ sān guān mài xuè jì) reflete sobre temas populares chineses e contém muitos provérbios e expressões idiomáticas chinesas. Estes provérbios e expressões não são apenas um fenómeno linguístico, mas também um fenó…
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This dissertation investigates the semantic and pragmatic characterization of the evidential morphology in Turkish. That evidentials are parasitic to tense/aspect morphology is well noted (Izvroski 1997, Matthewson et al. 2007 a.o.), and the traditional literature describes the …
This study offers a semantic analysis of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system with respect to the parameters of tense, aspect, and modality. As linguistic understanding of these universal categories increases, the way is opened up to reevaluate past work on the Biblical Hebrew verb…
Greek word order variations are yet to be explained by consistently applied principles of linguistic theory. Many in the past have attempted to account for this phenomenon only to express disappointment in their own conclusions. Such findings surely establish Greek word order as…
This dissertation presents a theory of resumption based on semantic composition. The theory achieves a unified explanation of resumptive pronouns and copy raising. The basis is two key claims: (1) the pronouns in resumption are ordinary pronouns, (2) natural language is resource…
The study investigates the semantic formulas used by Saudi and American male undergraduate students in the speech act of refusal. The data were collected through a DCT questionnaire and were analyzed as consisting of semantic formulas following Beebe and Cummings (1985). The res…
Determining the semantic content of sentences, and uncovering regularities between linguistic form and meaning, requires attending to both morphological and syntactic properties of a language with an eye to the notional categories that the various pieces of form express. In this…
Pluractionality, a specific type of event plurality, is at best only partially understood. In this thesis, I survey four pluractional languages in order to compare and contrast them in search of generalizations across the pluractional strategies. I divide the pluractional marker…
The longest, and some would say most complicated, of all the psalms in the Psalter, Ps119 has intimidated and confused biblical scholars through the centuries. Most often examined for the purposes of determining either its form-critical Gattung or its understanding of torah, Ps …
This thesis documents research providing improvements in the field of accessibility modelling, which will be of particular interest as computing becomes increasingly ubiquitous. It is argued that a new approach is required that takes into account the dynamic relationship between…
In this thesis, I aim to motivate a particular philosophy of mathematics characterised by the following three claims. First, mathematical sentences are generally speaking false because mathematical objects do not exist. Second, people typically use mathematical sentences to comm…
This thesis consists of four essays and an introduction dedicated to two main topics: indexicality and presupposition. The first essay is concerned with an alleged problem for the standard treatment of indexicals on which their linguistic meanings are functions from context to c…
This thesis is essentially a portfolio of four disjoint yet thematically related articles that deal with some semantic aspect or another of natural language conditionals. The thesis opens with a brief introductory chapter that offers a short yet opinionated historical overview a…
The overarching topic of this dissertation is the semantics and pragmatics of definite descriptions. It focuses on the question whether sentences such as ‘the king of France is bald’ literally assert the existence of a unique king (and therefore are false) or simply presuppose t…
The aim of the logic for pragmatics considered in this work is to provide a logical framework that formalises reasoning about the pragmatic forces with which a sentence may be uttered. The concept of pragmatic or illocutionary force comes from speech act theory and plays a cruci…
This dissertation investigates the semantics of existential sentences (existentials) such as (1). (1) There's whiskey in the jar. Most semantic literature on existentials has focused on the so-called definiteness effect (DE), namely the observation that certain NP types do not e…
Scholars have given the study of Biblical Hebrew words, and especially verbs, a great amount of attention. Work on lexicons of Biblical Hebrew, theological dictionaries and various articles in journals give important details about individual verbs that appear in the Hebrew Bible…
This dissertation is about physio-psychological concept expressions in Anlo Ewe, a Niger Congo language of the (new) Kwa branch. The term "physio-psychological" is a cover term for expressions of physiological, as well as psychological experiential phenomena. Physiological conce…