Multimodality has become one of today’s most crucial challenges both for linguistics and computer science, entailing theoretical issues as well as practical ones (verbal interaction description, human-machine dialogues, virtual reality etc...). Understanding interaction processes is one of the main targets of these sciences, and requires to take into account the whole set of modalities and the ...

Conversation is often considered as the most problematic area in the field of formal linguistics, primarily because of its dynamic emerging nature. The degree of complexity is also high in comparison to traditional sentential analysis. The challenge for developing a formal account for conversational analysis is bipartite: Since the smallest structural unit at the level of conversational analysi...

Park, Sang-Hee. 2009. Resolving Multiple fdo.fragments in English: A Syntax-Pragmatics Approach. SNU Working Papers in English Lingnistics and Langnage 8, 16-27. This study attempts to provide a new analysis of multiple wh·fragments, the so-called 'multiple sluicing', in English. Against previous approaches which resort to a reconslruction-based resolution or gapping, the proposed analysis capt...

Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK High-functioning children with autism show a severe deficit in the development of pragmatics whereas their knowledge of syntax and morphology is relatively intact. In this study we investigated further their selective communication impairment by comparing them with children with specific language impairment (SLI) and normally ...

Abstract This article offers new insights on the status of optative in New Testament Greek, mapping it against diachronic encoding modality Ancient Greek light typology and pragmatics. Virtually all available scholarship subject focusses ‘decline’ optative; this article, we choose to focus its survival fixed expressions specific types speech acts. Through a comprehensive reanalysis data, argue ...

Introduction Traditionally, one of the usages of the prefix po(often called delimitative or attenuative) is associated with some characteristic of an event being lower than the expected value: an event lasting for a short period of time, a small quantity of the theme consumed, etc. According to Filip (2000, pp. 47–48) “[t]he prefix pocontributes to the verb the [. . .] meaning of a small quanti...

We present a formalism called Addressed Term Rewriting Systems, which can be used to define the operational semantics of programming languages, especially those involving sharing, recursive computations and cyclic data structures. Addressed Term Rewriting Systems are therefore well suited for describing object-based languages, as for instance the family of languages called λObja, involving both...

Linguists distinguish the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of languages. Together these three categories are referred to as semiotics—the study of how meaning is constructed and understood. All three categories can be applied to programming languages as well as natural languages. In the context of programming languages, syntax is determined by formal rules saying how to construct expressions of...

In the introduction to her classic paper on topic, Reinhart (1982) writes: “Although the subject matter of pragmatic theory is ostensibly linguistic communication, much of it deals, in fact, with the more general problem of human interaction, which is independent of linguistic considerations and of which linguistic communication is just a particular manifestation. Thus, as Grice points out, his...