Narrative Finality

Transferability, Finality, and Debt Settlement

The process of payment is fundamental to exchange in a decentralized economy. In production economies, payments often take the form of transfers of inside money, i.e., specialized forms of debt. Associated with each type of inside money is a set of rules that governs both the legitimacy of such transfers as means of extinguishing other debts, and the allocation of the ensuing risks. In this pap...

Casper the Friendly Finality Gadget

We introduce Casper, a proof of stake-based finality system which overlays an existing proof of work blockchain. Casper is a partial consensus mechanism combining proof of stake algorithm research and Byzantine fault tolerant consensus theory. We introduce our system, prove some desirable features, and show defenses against long range revisions and catastrophic crashes. The Casper overlay provi...

Utterance-Finality — Framing the Issues

Several matters pertaining to the notion of “utterance-finality” are presented here, as a way of framing the issues that the serious investigation of this notion entails. Attention is paid to matters of description, synchronic analysis, and diachrony, with particular focus on the use that has been made of utterance-final phenomena in language as a way of explaining apparent exceptions to the Ne...

Words expressing finality.

Non-finality and pre-finality in bari Italian intonation: a preliminary account

In this paper, a preliminary account of intonational strategies used by Bari Italian speakers in signal non-finality and prefinality in discourse organisation is presented and discussed. Results obtained from auditory and instrumental analysis of speech material elicited with different methods (Map Task dialogues and monologues, lists readings) show that a rich inventory of intonational choices...