Abstract This paper outlines and describes the effectiveness of a virtual learning environment (VLE) as grammar resource for first year students at university in southern China over two academic years. The resource, named Independent Grammar Study Scheme (IGSS), offered short exercises that were completed 14-week period by cohorts one students. results this study suggest IGSS was successful rai...

Perhaps the biggest challenge facing neuroscience at the dawn of the 21st century is understanding the relationship between mind, consciousness and the brain. Editorials in recent years have highlighted the difficulties faced by cognitive neuroscience in attempting to answer questions regarding the nature, as well as the mechanism by which subjective experiences and our sense of consciousness m...

This paper describes a way of expressing syntactic rules that ~kssociate semantic formulae with strings, but in a manner thai is independent of the syntactic details of these formulac. In particular we show how the same rules construct predicate argument formulae in the style of Montague grammar[131, rap_ resentations reminiscent of situation semantics(Barwise and Perry 121) and of the event lo...

The representation of Neg-Raising in the grammar is a matter of controversy. I provide evidence for representing Neg-Raising as a kind of presupposition associated with certain predicates by providing a detailed analysis of NPI-licensing in Neg-Raising contexts. Specific features of presupposition projection are used to explain the licensing of strict NPIs under Neg-Raising predicates. Discussi...

This study examined and compared the effects of consciousness-raisingwritten corrective feedback in 2 newly-developed levels in terms of marked thirdperson -s acquisition. Nine elementary level intact classes, including 191 malelanguage learners within the age range of 11-14 at Iran Language Institute, weretaken as the participants. Relying on the participants’ placement test results,previous t...

The escalating problem of sexual misconduct has heightened clinicians' awareness of the consequences of therapist-patient sexual relations. One consciousness-raising device, the definition of "therapist-patient sex syndrome," may pose more problems than remedies in the forensic, rather than clinical context. The author reviews the conceptual, diagnostic, and teleological dimensions of this addi...

We present a geometrical analysis of the principles that lay at the basis of Categorial Grammar and of the Lambek Calculus. In Abrusci (On residuation, 2014) it is shown that the basic properties known as Residuation laws can be characterized in the framework of Cyclic Multiplicative Linear Logic, a purely non-commutative fragment of Linear Logic. We present a summary of this result and, pursui...