Farkas (2002) argues that three types of uses of indefinite NPs that are often deemed specific do not actually form a natural class. The varieties of specificity she considers are: 1. partitivity: indefinite NPs with interpretations like that of English some of the books 2. scopal specificity: indefinite NPs that take widest scope, sometimes out of scope islands, and/or in some languages morpho...

This article is devoted the semiotics analysis of concepts of reference. On the basis of the analysis the conclusion becomes, that the sign can display a reality only in the course of human activity. Denotation of a sign is a way of its use and interpretation. From the point of view of the theory of reference the parity between language and the world described by it is the relation of "isomorph...

This study aims to describe non-verbal semiotics and its relation Roland Barthes' semiotics, namely connotation denotation. research with the object of music video "Azza" by Rhoma Irama uses qualitative methods find contained in study. The results this study, Irama, there are seven body signs, (a) signals; (b) facial expressions; (c) eye contact; (d) language; (e) touch; (f) cue; (g) dance. It ...

How do models represent reality? There are two conditions that scientific must satisfy to be representations of real systems, the aboutness condition and epistemic condition. In this article, I critically assess main fictionalist theories as representations, indirect fiction view direct view, with respect these conditions. And develop a novel proposal, what call ‘new models’. On akin fictional ...

Abstract In recent work Allan Gibbard claims to be both a local quasi-realist, in Blackburn’s sense, and global expressivist. His quasi-realism rests on an argument that for naturalistic discourse but not ethical discourse, the semantic relation of denotation causal tracking can should identified; denoting simply is tracking, vocabulary. I argue Gibbard’s case this conclusion unconvincing, poor...

When proposing a description of the data he observes, the linguist must make sure that his observations may be also regularly made by other persons. In this paper, we introduce a typology of anaphoric and referential relations and an experiment which aims at assessing that this typology is operational. Given three newspaper articles, five students were asked to identify anaphoric and/or referen...

Abstract There are two notions of intentionality: the first contains thesis that our acts thinking, judging and loving have a content; second mental about something external to act. Brentano uses term ‘intentionality’ only in relation notion; for him, intentionality does not function as bridge between mind world. Is it possible phenomenologist like give an account notion intentionality? It is a...

In this article we develop an indirect approach for assessing criteria significance weights from the robustness of the significance that a decision maker acknowledges for his pairwise outranking statements in a Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding process. The main result consists in showing that with the help of a mixed integer linear programming model this kind of a priori knowledge is sufficien...