This paper presents a qualitative analysis on the variations in the speaking style and in the meanings (paralinguistic information) carried by several interjections appearing in spontaneous speech. Analysis results show that part of the paralinguistic information carried by several interjections can be associated to their speaking styles. On the other hand, the effects of small differences in t...

Epistemic indefinites (henceforth EIs) are existentials that when used in a positive context convey information about the speaker’s epistemic state (e.g. Jayez and Tovena, 2006, Alonso-Ovalle and Menéndez-Benito, 2010): they signal that the speaker is unable to identify the individual that satisfies the existential claim. In some languages EIs can also be used in negative contexts to convey nar...

We discuss and analyze two subject agreement markers in Logooli (Bantu, Kenya). We show that e(class 9 subject agreement) and ga(class 6 subject agreement) give rise to a variety of apparently evidential or modal meanings when they occur in constructions translated with “expletive” subjects. We propose a treatment of the Logooli data following Matthewson, Rullmann & Davis’s (2007) and Rullmann,...

The present study was designed to further examine the inhibitory processes of spoken word recognition of Chinese homophones during sentence processing. In this study, we employed the negative priming paradigm in a cross-modal naming experiment. In the experiment, all the native Cantonese listeners were asked to name aloud a visual probe as quick and accurate as they could after hearing a senten...

This paper discusses proof-theoretic semantics, the project of specifying the meanings of the logical constants in terms of rules of inference governing them. I concentrate on Michael Dummett’s and Dag Prawitz’ philosophical motivations and give precise characterisations of the crucial notions of harmony and stability, placed in the context of proving normalisation results in systems of natural...

The article examines the features of presence a person-oriented type discourse in online movie review written English. Personal itself covers almost all text types generated by Internet due to various verbal and non-verbal means converging addressee communicative message. variety linguistic characteristics disclosing inner world person, expressing interpersonal relations, lexical explicating ca...

In this paper we described the architecture and key issues of the service enabling layer of a multi-modal system Ozone which is oriented for new technologies and services for emerging nomadic societies. The main objective of the Ozone system is to offer a generic framework to enable consumer-oriented Ambient-Intelligence applications. As a large multi-modal system, Ozone consists of many functi...

By terms-allowed-in-types capacity, the Logic of Proofs LP includes formulas of the form t : φ(t), which have self-referential meanings. In this paper, “prehistoric phenomena” in a Gentzen-style formulation of modal logic S4 are defined. A special phenomenon, i.e., “left prehistoric loop”, is then shown to be necessary for self-referentiality in S4-LP realization.

This paper investigates the connection between temporal logic and the semantics of some temporal expressions in English. Specii-cally, we show how the meanings of English temporal preposition-phrases can be expressed as modal operators in an interval-based temporal logic which we call ETL0. We show how cascaded temporal preposition phrases and temporal preposition phrases with complex complemen...