Causation

A semantics of linguistic categories like tense, aspect, and cer- tain temporal adverbials, and a theory of their use in defining the temporal relations of events, both require a more …...

We offer a semantics and pragmatics of the pluperfect in narrative discourse. We rex- amine in a formal model of implicature, how the reader's knowledge about the dis- course, Gricean-maxims …...

This paper aims to investigate the variation between two Chinese causative auxiliaries shi ‘使’ and rang ‘讓’ from a corpus-based perspective. We conduct a logistic regression analysis to the Chinese …...