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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Event Semantics"”.
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Multimedia Content Analysis for Event Detection
… is the inherent link between ''media" and the ''events" that such media are depicting. We will present two different methodologies related to such problem, and in particular to the automatic discovery of event-semantics from media contents. The two methodologies address this general problem at …
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The role of language in broader human cognition: evidence from neuroscience
… network’s responses to pictures of objects and events during semantic tasks, which, like language comprehension, require access to conceptual information. I show that the language network does not respond during an object semantics task and that its responses to event semantics are not causally …
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Neurocognitive plasticity in verb bias learning in children and adults
… structure is closely intertwined with the event information delivered by the verb and its argument, which raises complexity in teasing apart the information from linguistic co-occurrence frequency and the information from the event semantics. In this dissertation I began by examining the …
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Embedded jussives as instances of control : the case of Mongolian and Korean
This dissertation is an investigation into the semantics of imperatives and imperative-like forms (collectively referred to as jussives) in embedded contexts. The long-held view that imperatives are confined to root (matrix) contexts has been challenged by recent findings of counterexamples from a …
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Truthmaker and negation: Investigations of nonbeing, negative events, and counterfactual conditionals
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Case Assignment on Adverbial NPs in Korean
… realization of other parts of grammar such as semantics and pragmatics. Neo-Davidsonian Event semantics let the adverbials assigned Case not to violate the Case Filter, and Nordlinger's (1998) constructive function of Case makes case morphology construct information about higher phrases in …
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Modal auxiliary verbs and contexts
… utterance, Jess frying the fish is a possible event. Modal auxiliary verbs often create intensional environments, leading the events described by the second verb to be understood to be non-actual events. When the readings are described as being determined by a context, it is often a broad …