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Secondary predication in Russian
The paper makes two contributions to semantic typology of secondary predicates. It provides an explanation of the fact that Russian has no resultative secondary predicates, relating this explanation to the interpretation of secondary predicates in English. And it relates depictive secondary predicates in Russian, which usually occur in the instrumental case, to other uses of the instrumental case in Russian, establishing here, too, a difference to English concerning the scope of the secondary predication phenomenon
Natural language interfaces to relational databases
MĂĄster Universitario en LĂłgica, ComputaciĂłn e Inteligencia Artificia
Two Accounts of Moral Diversity: The Cognitive Science of Pluralism and Absolutism
Advances in cognitive science are relevant to the debate between moral pluralism and absolutism. Parametric structure, which plausibly underlies syntax, gives some idea of how pluralism might be true. The cognitive mechanisms underlying mathematical intelligence give some idea of how far absolutism is right. Advances in cognitive science should help us better understand the extent to which we are divided
and how far we are potentially harmonious in our value
Graph Theory and Universal Grammar
Tese arquivada ao abrigo da Portaria nÂş 227/2017 de 25 de Julho-Registo de Grau EstrangeiroIn the last few years, Noam Chomsky (1994; 1995; 2000; 2001) has gone quite far in
the direction of simplifying syntax, including eliminating X-bar theory and the levels
of D-structure and S-structure entirely, as well as reducing movement rules to a
combination of the more primitive operations of Copy and Merge. What remain in
the Minimalist Program are the operations Merge and Agree and the levels of LF
(Logical Form) and PF (Phonological form).
My doctoral thesis attempts to offer an economical theory of syntactic structure
from a graph-theoretic point of view (cf. Diestel, 2005), with special emphases on the
elimination of category and projection labels and the Inclusiveness Condition
(Chomsky 1994). The major influences for the development of such a theory have
been Chris Collinsâ (2002) seminal paper âEliminating labelsâ, John Bowers (2001)
unpublished manuscript âSyntactic Relationsâ and the Cartographic Paradigm (see
Belletti, Cinque and Rizziâs volumes on OUP for a starting point regarding this
paradigm).
A syntactic structure will be regarded here as a graph consisting of the set of
lexical items, the set of relations among them and nothing more
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