The aim of this paper is to analyze the semantic behavior adjectives that have been designated as temporal and aspectual in literature, regarding readings they can display. For purpose, sixteen these were selected fifty occurrences each one randomly chosen investigated. Overall, we observed a significant variety associated with all under scrutiny, which greater or lesser degrees express tempora...

The automatic prediction of aspectual classes is very challenging for verbs whose aspectual value varies across readings, which are the rule rather than the exception. This paper sheds a new perspective on this problem by using a machine learning approach and a rich morpho-syntactic and semantic valency lexicon. In contrast to previous work, where the aspectual value of corpus clauses is determ...

This paper deals with an aspectual classification of Korean and Japanese verbs based on Vendler (1967). Both of Korean and Japanese verbs are classified into 12 distinctive aspectual categories by their restrictions on time adverbials, progressive tenses and logical entailments. A well-established aspectual verb classes provide us not only with a better understanding of both languages, but also...

This paper is the second in a series of two papers presenting recent developments concerning the interaction between aspectual classes of predicates and the semantics of aspectual for-phrases. Aspectual for-phrases must modify predicates which are homogeneous meaning that the predicate spreads appropriately to subintervals. For eventive predicates the relevant notion of homogeneity should be a ...

In this paper we present the DyMAC aspectcomponent model that supports the specification of aspectual dependencies: these are explicit dependencies between advised and advising components involved in an aspect-oriented composition. DyMAC advocates a pure black-box approach to aspectoriented composition and aspectual dependencies further extend this approach. The component model avoids explicit ...

The major aim of this paper consists in determining the aspectual constraints affecting absolute small clauses (ASCs) headed by a past participle. A detailed analysis of these constructions seems to indicate that there are enough arguments to postulate the existence of two types of ASCs: those having an NP direct internal argument (AASCs), and those in which this NP is phonetically unrealized (...

Aspect oriented programming AOP controls tangling of concerns by isolating aspects that cross cut each other into building blocks Component based programming CBP supports software development by isolating reusable building blocks that can be assembled and connected in many di erent ways We show how AOP and CBP can be integrated by introducing a new component construct for programming class coll...

In this paper we deal with two applications of the square of opposition to controversial issues in the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The first one concerns the kind of opposition represented by states in superposition. A superposition of “spin up” and “spin down” for a given spatial direction, for instance, is sometimes said to originate particular kinds of opposition such as contradictorine...

Starting from a typology of argumentative forms proposed in linguistics by Apothéloz, and observing that the four basic forms can be organized in a square of oppositions, we present a logical language, somewhat inspired from generalized possibilistic logic, where these basic forms can be expressed. We further analyze the interplay between the formulas of this language by means of two hexagons o...

It has been pointed out that there is no primitive name in natural and formal languages for one corner of the famous square of oppositions. We have all, some and no, but no primitive name for not all. It is true also in the modal version of the square, we have necessary, possible and impossible, but no primitive name for not necessary. I shed here a new light on this mysterious non-lexicalisati...