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Verbs and Times
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The time schemata presupposed by various verbs will appear as important constituents of the concepts that prompt us to use those terms the way the authors consistently do and may be used as models of comparison in exploring and clarifying the behavior of any verb whatever.About:
This article is published in The Philosophical Review.The article was published on 1957-04-01. It has received 2019 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Contemporary philosophy & Analytic philosophy.read more
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Event semantics and abstract categorial grammar
Yoad Winter,Joost Zwarts +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that these linguistic properties reflect a distinction between overt arguments and purely semantic slots like the event argument, and assumes that semantic event arguments are only introduced by the (basic) result type of the verb's abstract type, whose pheno-level type is standardly a string.
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Progressive Attraction: On the Use and Grammaticalization of Progressive Aspect in Dutch, Norwegian, and German
TL;DR: This article investigated the use of aspectual constructions in Dutch, Norwegian, and German, languages in which aspect marking that presents events explicitly as ongoing, is optional, and found that while German speakers make insignificant use of aspects, usage patterns in Norwegian and Dutch present an interesting case of overlap, as well as differences, with respect to a set of factors that attract or constrain use of different constructions.
The Semantics of Measure Phrases
TL;DR: The term measure phrases (hence MPs) includes both classifier phrases and genuine measure phrases to express amount in noun phrases in Japanese.
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Building text-based temporally linked event network for scientific big data analytics
TL;DR: This paper surveys existing research work on text-based event temporal resolution and reasoning including identification of events, temporal information resolutions of events in English and Chinese texts, the rule-based temporal relation reasoning between events and relevant temporal representations and gives the argument about the future research work for advancing identification ofEvents, establishment of temporal relations and reasoning of temporal Relations.
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Minimal Semantic Instructions
TL;DR: Following Chomsky, each human language is taken to be a state of HFL that generates expressions that pair phonological structures (PHONs) with semantic structures (SEMs), via which HFL interfaces with other cognitive systems that let humans perceive/articulate linguistic signals and assemble/express corresponding interpretations.