except for personal clitics in past transitive forms, sorani kurdish has threeverbal prefixes; n?- for negation, be- for subjunctive, and (d)?- for imperfective. thisarticle starts with bringing forth the question of why subjunctive marker in this languagecannot appear with verbal negative or aspect prefixes while there is no problem with the co-occurence of negative and aspect prefixes.after p...

We present a novel supervised approach to inflection generation for verbs in Spanish. Our system takes as input the verb’s lemma form and the desired features such as person, number, tense, and is able to predict the appropriate grammatical conjugation. Even though our approach learns from fewer examples comparing to previous work, it is able to deal with all the Spanish moods (indicative, subj...

The new …eld of judgment aggregation aims to …nd group judgments on logically interconnected propositions. Recent impossibility results have established limitations on the possibility to vote independently on the propositions, hence notably on the possibility to use quota rules (rules with acceptance thresholds for the propositions). I show that, fortunately, the impossibilities fail to apply t...

Consider this picture of the skeptical dilemma: Descartes sits in his armchair, wondering what the world is like, and worried whether it is as it seems to be. He realizes that there are many ways the world could be — many possible ways for the world to be — that he lacks the resources to choose between. Since all the possibilities he’s considering include his having experiences like the ones he...

In recent research on aphasia, a considerable number of studies have examined deficits in patients with agrammatism in the domain of verb-finiteness marking in different languages. Whilst much of this research has focused on tense and subject-verb agreement and has shown that tense is particularly impaired, the nature of verb-finiteness deficits in agrammatism is still a matter of controversy. ...

Factive know selects the indicative, the mood of veridical sentences (Giannakidou 1998, 1999, 2009). If emotives are factive like know, why do they take the subjunctive? If both know and emotives are veridical, how can we explain the contrast between the two vis-à-vis the subjunctive? The usual way mood selection in complement clauses has been handled in the literature is by proposing a general...

Yelin, Boris. M.A., Purdue University, May 2014. The case of capaz in Argentina: an epistemic adverb with mood variability. Major Professor: Lori Czerwionka. This thesis examines mood selection in Argentine Spanish with epistemic adverbs considering the independent variables of certainty, temporal reference, and epistemic adverb. It is the first known study to investigate mood selection with th...

We present a logic for belief revision in which revision of a theory by a sentence is represented using a conditional connective. The conditional is not primitive, but rather defined using two unary modal operators. Our approach captures and extends the classic AGM model without relying on the Limit Assumption. Reasoning about counterfactual or hypothetical situations is also crucial for AI. Ex...