Received a grammar question about requests like "May you update the team?" ("may" instead of "would" or "can"). Has anybody heard of this phenomenon? #Linguistics #modality
Received a grammar question about requests like "May you update the team?" ("may" instead of "would" or "can"). Has anybody heard of this phenomenon? #Linguistics #modality
This afternoon I had the pleasure of sneaking in to a session of Scottish Programming Languages and Verification Summer School, organised by @edwinb and colleagues in Computer Science at St Andrews.
@dorchard gave a neat talk on graded modalities. It’s neat to see substructural logics applied in the wild, and there was some logical insight, too, on the different behaviour of box-type and diamond-type modalities in a constructive setting.
Speakers aren't blank slates (with respect to sign-language phonology)!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027722003365
Asks the straightforward (but overlooked) question:
"Is phonological knowledge, in fact, fully modality-specific?"
Not just whether spoken & sign languages share formal structures
Nor if speakers & signers rely on common brain regions
But (to be concrete) can an English speaker extract some of the phonological structure of ASL signs?
New today in the SEP from @cmenzel: The Possibilism-Actualism debate https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/possibilism-actualism/ #Philosophy #Metaphysics #Modality @philosophy
#introduction
Hi! I’m a #philosophy professor in #illinois, trained in analytic #metaphysics, #PhilosophyOfLanguage, and #MedievalPhilosophy. Currently writing a book with a friend on the history of the #LiarParadox in the #IslamicWorld from around 800 to around 1500 and potty training a nine week old puppy with a weak bladder. #dogs #mushrooms #academic #medieval #IslamicPhilosophy #logic #modality #mereology #TeachingPhilosophy #aesthetics #sousvide #foraging