We study various shortcut fusion rules for languages like Haskell. Following a careful semantic account of a recently proposed rule for circular program transformation, we propose a new rule that trades circularity for higher-orderedness, and thus attains better semantic properties. This also leads us to revisit the original foldr/build-rule, as well as its dual, and to develop variants that do...

This paper analyzes certain restrictions on polarity focus marking in clauses embedded under emotive factive predicates. It argues that these arise because this configuration leads to a systematic presupposition failure virtue of its value, which I call impossible presupposition. The main argument offered here supporting approach involves some novel asymmetries with predicate doubling construct...

1- introduction the literature review of persian suffixes show that “-i, -in, -ineh, -gan, -ganeh, -aneh, and -iyeh/yeh” are attributive suffixes. linguistic evidences show that once these suffixes are added to a word, in addition to the central senses of “related to” and “attributed to”, they add peripheral sense such as possession, similarity, possibility, obligation, origin, direction, goal,...

The aim of this paper is to describe the available strategies for coding purpose relations in Mbya, focusing on their semantico-pragmatic distribution. According Dooley, Mbya Guarani presents two main different involved relations: aguã nominalizations and vy-dependent clauses, among latter a motion-cum-purpose (MCP) construction subtype included. These differ regard semantic class verb, referen...

This paper presents results from a production experiment in Hindi, showing that differences in attachment site of object relative clauses result in prosodic differences when the antecedent of the relative clause (RC) is part of a complex NP with the structure N1 of N2. In particular, based on duration and F0 data we argue that the phrasing in a matrix sentence encodes the attachment site of the...

The desideratum for the concept of a semiotic web is proposed. It combines both the recent semantic web and the pragmatic web initiatives but surpasses them in being faithful to Charles S. Peirce’s pragmatic approach to inquiry. I will address some conceptual shortcomings of the semantic and pragmatic web proposals, and suggest that in a semiotic web, one can to operationalise its basic ideas i...