Speech acts of commitment have been recognized since the early days of speech act theory as being a well-defined subset (Austin, 1962: 157ff.) and have been the object of attention, at least in the formal sense of specifying precondition and contexts for their occurrence and success (Searle, 1969: 57ff.). Commitment is a quite wide-ranging phenomenon and the narrower act of promising should be ...

This article explores adjectival degree constructions formed around the copular element de ‘of’ in Spanish such as un montón de listo (a load of smart, ‘considerably smart’), como tú de gordo (like you of fat, ‘as fat as you’), and así de alto (this of tall, ‘this tall’.) In these constructions, a predication relation takes place between the degree to which the property denoted by the adjective...

Households First, I consider the individual consumption behaviour of households that operate in perfect financial markets and can borrow freely against the security of their future disposable labour income. In the body of the paper these are called permanent income consumers. Next aggregate consumption is derived on the assumption that all consumers are permanent income consumers. The final ste...

For over 10 years VLDB has been a leading data base conference where the database research and industry communities present new ideas, indicated new trends, exchanged information about recent technologies and educated newcomers about the state of the art in databases and their applications. This VLDB broadens the link between the database research, industry and applications by introducing the E...

Over three billion people are currently micronutrient (i.e. micronutrient elements and vitamins) malnourished, resulting in egregious societal costs including learning disabilities among children, increased morbidity and mortality rates, lower worker productivity, and high healthcare costs, all factors diminishing human potential, felicity, and national economic development. Nutritional deficie...

To cite: Quilliam S. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2015;41:306–308. BACKGROUND 2015 has seen a 65-year-old German mother with 13 children expecting quadruplets, a media storm over the testing of new reproductive techniques on actual human pregnancies, and the autobiography of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown. In such a year, it seems pertinent for the Consumer Correspondent column to exp...

INTRODUCTION: A "MONDE RENVERSE" Between its foundation by Sultan Mehemmed the Conqueror (reg. 1451-81) and its abandonment in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Saray, the Palace in Constantinople, served for more than 400 years not only as the residence of the Ottoman Sultans and their royal household, but also as the seat of their imperial rule. More than that, it determined the impri...

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In their paper in Linguistics & Philosophy on the semantics and pragmatics of topic phrases, Portner and Yabushita (1998) propose a theory of Extended File Change Semantics that is able to account for a range of topicalization phenomena in Japanese and English. One particular phenomenon—the one that Portner and Yabushita dwell on the longest—is their observation that, in Japanese, “a discourse ...