Graded Modality

Author : Daniel Lassiter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198701347

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Graded Modality by Daniel Lassiter Pdf

This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a small and non-representative subset of expressions, namely modal auxiliaries such as must, might, and ought. Here, Daniel Lassiter argues that we should expand the conversation to include gradable modals such as more likely than, quite possible, and very good. He provides an introduction to qualitative and degree semantics for graded meaning, using the Representational Theory of Measurement to expose the complementarity between these apparently opposed perspectives on gradation. The volume explores and expands the typology of scales among English adjectives and uses the result to shed light on the meanings of a variety of epistemic and deontic modals. It also demonstrates that modality is deeply intertwined with probability and expected value, connecting modal semantics with the cognitive science of uncertainty and choice.

Author : Heinrich Wansing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401727983

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Proof Theory of Modal Logic by Heinrich Wansing Pdf

Proof Theory of Modal Logic is devoted to a thorough study of proof systems for modal logics, that is, logics of necessity, possibility, knowledge, belief, time, computations etc. It contains many new technical results and presentations of novel proof procedures. The volume is of immense importance for the interdisciplinary fields of logic, knowledge representation, and automated deduction.

Author : Shier Ju,Hu Liu,Hiroakira Ono
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783662471975

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Modality, Semantics and Interpretations by Shier Ju,Hu Liu,Hiroakira Ono Pdf

This contributed volume includes both theoretical research on philosophical logic and its applications in artificial intelligence, mostly employing the concepts and techniques of modal logic. It collects selected papers presented at the Second Asia Workshop on Philosophical Logic, held in Guangzhou, China in 2014, as well as a number of invited papers by specialists in related fields. The contributions represent pioneering philosophical logic research in Asia.

Author : Francesco Calimeri,Giovambattista Ianni,Miroslaw Truszczynski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319232645

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Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Francesco Calimeri,Giovambattista Ianni,Miroslaw Truszczynski Pdf

This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2015, held in September 2015 in Lexington, KY, USA. The 290long and 11 short papers presented together with 3 invited talks, the paper reporting on the Answer Set Programming competition, and four papers presented by LPNMR student attendees at the doctoral consortium were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the LPNMR conferences is to facilitate interactions between researchers interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and researchers who work in the areas of knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning.

Author : Francesco Calimeri,Nicola Leone,Marco Manna
Publisher : Springer
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030195700

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Logics in Artificial Intelligence by Francesco Calimeri,Nicola Leone,Marco Manna Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, JELIA 2019, held in Rende, Italy, in May 2019. The 50 full papers and 10 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. Additionally, the book contains 3 invited papers. The accepted papers span a number of areas within Logics in AI, including: belief revision and argumentation; causal, defeasible and inductive reasoning; conditional, probabilistic and propositional logic; description logics; logic programming; modal and default logic; and temporal logic.

Author : Nate Charlow,Matthew Chrisman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191027765

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Deontic Modality by Nate Charlow,Matthew Chrisman Pdf

An extraordinary amount of recent work by philosophers of language, meta-ethicists, and semanticists has focused on the meaning and function of language expressing concepts having to do with what is allowed, forbidden, required, or obligatory, in view of the requirements of morality, the law, one's preferences or goals, or what an authority has commanded: in short, deontic modality. This volume presents new work on the much-discussed topic of deontic modality by leading figures in the philosophy of language, meta-ethics, and linguistic semantics. The papers tackle issues about the place of decision and probability theory in the semantics of deontic modality, the viability of standard possible worlds treatments of the truth conditions of deontic modal sentences, the possibility of dynamic semantic treatments of deontic modality, the methodology of semantics for deontic modals, and the prospects for representationalist, expressivist, and inferentialist treatments of deontic modality.

Author : Werner Abraham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107021228

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Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics by Werner Abraham Pdf

An innovative survey that covers the linguistic questions of modality and mood, offering a new model for the phenomenon.

Author : Stephanie Weirich
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031572623

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Programming Languages and Systems by Stephanie Weirich Pdf

Author : Maribel Fernández
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030684464

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Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation by Maribel Fernández Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR 2020, which was held during September 7-9, 2020. The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 31 submissions. The book also contains two invited talks in full paper length. The contributions were organized in topical sections named: rewriting; unification; types; verification; model checking and probabilistic programming; program analysis and testing; and logics.

Author : Paul Portner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199292424

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Modality by Paul Portner Pdf

This comprehensive review and critical synthesis of research on modality focuses on formal theories within linguistics and related aspects of philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and related fields.

Author : Jozina Vander Klok,Núbia Ferreira Rech,Simone Guesser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110721478

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Modality in Underdescribed Languages by Jozina Vander Klok,Núbia Ferreira Rech,Simone Guesser Pdf

Current semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of modality cannot be conducted via translation alone, yet much of what we know about modal expressions across the world’s language is still translation-based. This book aims to facilitate the study of modality across more diverse languages and a wider participant base by explaining and illustrating a nuanced set of methods, including storyboards, questionnaires, corpora research, experimental tasks, as well as a discussion of practical semantic fieldwork techniques. The methodological protocols tested and employed by the authors on underdescribed languages - spanning seven different language families - are intended to be applicable as cross-linguistic tools, while also indicating the successes and challenges of their contributions. Expanding the study of modality to a wider set of underdescribed languages will undoubtedly bring new insights into our theoretical understanding of modality and deepen our understanding of a cross-linguistic typology of modal expressions.

Author : Nobuko Yoshida
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030720193

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Programming Languages and Systems by Nobuko Yoshida Pdf

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2021, which was held during March 27 until April 1, 2021, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Luxembourg and changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 24 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. They deal with fundamental issues in the specification, design, analysis, and implementation of programming languages and systems.

Author : Moessner Lilo Moessner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474438025

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History of the Present English Subjunctive by Moessner Lilo Moessner Pdf

Locating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive in main clauses, noun clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses. It explores the factors which governed its competition with other verbal expressions in texts ranging from the 9th to the beginning of the 18th century. Employing close reading alongside analysis of corpus data and the use of descriptive statistics, it offers new insights into the research landscape of English subjunctive use and into the fields of historical English linguistics and corpus linguistics.

Author : Magdalena Kaufmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400722699

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Interpreting Imperatives by Magdalena Kaufmann Pdf

Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of meaning, which relies largely on either the concept of truth conditions or the concept of information growth—neither of which are easily applied to imperatives. This book puts forward a fresh perspective. It analyzes imperatives in terms of modalized propositions, and identifies an additional, presuppositional, meaning component that makes an assertive interpretation inappropriate. The author shows how these two elements can help explain the varied effects imperatives have, depending on their usage context. Imperatives have been viewed as elusive components of language because they have a range of functions that makes them difficult to unify theoretically. This fresh view of the semantics-pragmatics interface allows for a uniform semantic analysis while accounting for the pragmatic versatility of imperatives.

Author : Paul Kroeger
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103904

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Analyzing meaning: An introduction to semantics and pragmatics. Third edition by Paul Kroeger Pdf

This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters are organized into six units: (1) Foundational concepts; (2) Word meanings; (3) Implicature (including indirect speech acts); (4) Compositional semantics; (5) Modals, conditionals, and causation; (6) Tense & aspect. Most of the chapters include exercises which can be used for class discussion and/or homework assignments, and each chapter contains references for additional reading on the topics covered. As the title indicates, this book is truly an introduction: it provides a solid foundation which will prepare students to take more advanced and specialized courses in semantics and/or pragmatics. It is also intended as a reference for fieldworkers doing primary research on under-documented languages, to help them write grammatical descriptions that deal carefully and clearly with semantic issues. The approach adopted here is largely descriptive and non-formal (or, in some places, semi-formal), although some basic logical notation is introduced. The book is written at level which should be appropriate for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students. It presupposes some previous coursework in linguistics, but does not presuppose any background in formal logic or set theory.