This paper reports the results of an eye-tracking during reading experiment carried out in order to investigate the online processing of the French modal verbs devoir ("must") and pouvoir ("can/may"). The nature – ambiguous/homonymic, polysemous or monosemic/under-specified – of the modals is tested through the manipulation in sentences of the root or epistemic meaning of the modal as well as t...

When translating the ‘potential’ Homeric Greek optative into English, ‘could’ is often the best modal verb to use, to be preferred to the more usual ‘would’. I will argue that, in some cases, this reveals that the optative expresses what is termed in the literature ‘dynamic’ modality. Examining several examples in more detail I will claim that the optative expresses a wide range of meanings, th...

The article presents a new view on Chinese modal verbs as part of speech. Based the typology language, authors analyzed according to their functional-syntactic, formal-morphological, and semantic features in order importance. discusses position operators sentence other characteristics. For instance, have no impact object cannot independently form sentences or combine with grammemes. Therefore, ...

We present a novel bi-modal system based on deep networks to address the problem of learning associations and simple meanings objects depicted in "authored" images, such as ne art paintings drawings. Our overall processes both images associated texts order learn between individual objects, their identities abstract they signify. Unlike past net that describe infer predicates, our identies meani...

In the present study, a cross-modal semantic priming task was used to investigate the ability of left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) nonfluent aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and non-brain-damaged (NBD) control subjects to use a discourse context to resolve lexically ambiguous words. Subjects first heard four-sentence discourse passages ending in ambiguous words and after an inter-stimulus in...

Sound symbolism is a property of certain words which have a direct link between their phonological form and their semantic meaning. In certain instances, sound symbolism can allow non-native speakers to understand the meanings of etymologically unfamiliar foreign words, although the mechanisms driving this are not well understood. We examined whether sound symbolism might be mediated by the sam...

The aim of this study is twofold: firstly, it presents a general overview the evidentiality system in Galician, and secondly, explores use its marker seica. We will argue that, apart from core evidential meanings, which are independent epistemic modality, markers conversation index social meanings related to asymmetry authority, face-saving strategies, detachment, irony, deference towards heare...