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Reflexivity of similarity-in-a-respect

semantics meaning reflexive truth-value presupposition

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Why grammaticalized perfective aspect marker is reduced to be used only in narrative style?

etymology semantics pragmatics aspect indo-aryan

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Why do some abstract concepts get described as a liquid in English?

english semantics lexical-semantics metaphor

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VerbNet semantic roles and preposition groups - how to determine matches

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Phonological parallel of a Lexical Decision Task

phonology semantics psycholinguistics

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Can we build semantic mappings for CFG same as we do in CCG?

syntax semantics grammar-formalism formal-semantics

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What's it called? Indicating no exceptions to the rule

terminology semantics pragmatics

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Automatic sentence negation

semantics computational-linguistics negation computer-science nltk

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How do we explain to material implication?

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What's the difference between logical modality and epistemic modality?

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How do languages with negative concord express the actual negation of negative polarity items?

semantics pragmatics negation

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What is the difference between theta-role, theta-grid and argument?

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Why is the intension of a sentence the set of all possible worlds in which it is true?

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How to express “he died” as a state transition not as an action

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