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In this paper we present a denotational semantics for a lazy functional language. The semantics is intrinsic in the sense that it defines meaning for typing derivations instead of language expressions. We contrast our se...

This paper investigates what the semantics of generic sentences in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) says about the denotation of Noun Phrases in that language. More specifically, it addresses the syntactic and semantic differen...

Este trabalho investiga a distinção contável-massivo entre os nomes comuns. Em particular, nos debruçamos sobre a distinção contável-massivo e sua relação com a morfologia de número. Defendemos que não existe ...

Anyone who examines the history of the city of Eger will inevitably meet the so-called “university idea” which caught fire in the 18th century but only became a reality in the 21st century. Eger not only plays an imp...

The essential psychological properties of any activity lie in its motivation in particular in those purposes that lead the subject to it as a means of achieving them. Various positively colored emotional experiences awa...

Apresentam-se neste estudo os resultados de investigação em banco de dados de língua falada e escrita e de um experimento psicolinguístico sobre a gramaticalidade de sentenças genéricas com singular nu no portuguê...

ABSTRACT In Spanish, combining an indefinite plural article and a cardinal number leads to an approximative interpretation similar to that provided by approximators like ‘approximately’. In this paper, we advance a s...

These are three loosely connected philosophical notes. The first note starts with a reflection on the idea that bad people (on top) defiled the communist ideal. The argument is that the descriptive phrase „the communis...

Studies to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of various topical NSAIDS compared to oral NSAIDS have been reported but little research has been conducted to evaluate the efficacy of topical NSAIDS from different m...

Nous savons que le processus de traduction est un acte de communication particulier et complexe. Ce but communicatif se fait à travers la langue, c’est-à-dire, un système linguistique dont les signes ont une signifi...

The article deals with the problem of teaching vocabulary. Different aspects of vocabulary (pronunciation, spelling, grammar, collocation, meaning, word formation) are considered alongside with efficient vocabulary testi...