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Item A Friedman–Sheard-style Theory for Classical Realisability(2025) Hayashi, Daichi; Leigh, Graham E.In Hayashi and Leigh (2024), the authors formulate classical number realisability for first-order arithmetic and a corresponding axiomatic system based on Krivine’s classical realisability interpretation. This paper presents a self-referential generalisation of previous results in the spirit of Friedman and Sheard (1987).Item A metapredicative study of μ-arithmetics(2025-01-27) Afshari, Bahareh; Leigh, Graham E.We present a semi-formal analysis of intuitionistic higher-order μ-arithmetic through the medium of illfounded proofs and continuous cut elimination.Item A Study of Actual and Non-Actual Motion Expressions in Telugu: A path towards a post-Talmian Motion Event Typology(2024-11-05) Naidu, ViswanathaThis compilation thesis investigates the expressions of actual and non-actual motion (henceforth AM and NAM, respectively) in Telugu (Dravidian). AM refers to a situation where a physical object moves from one place to another, whereas NAM refers to a context where a motion verb describes a static scene. This semantics-based study is the first of its kind on Dravidian languages in general and Telugu in particular. In this respect, the main aim of this thesis is the detailed examination of the expression of AM and NAM in Telugu, leading to a proposal for a new Post-Talmain framework for studying motion event typology, thus advancing our understanding of semantic typology in general. Both AM and NAM data were collected from three separate but related experimental studies. Study 1 involved using the well-known wordless picture book Frog, where are you, to elicit the relevant data (AM data). Data for Study 2 was collected using video stimuli (AM data), and, for Study 3, data was collected using pictorial stimuli (NAM data). Study 1 made a comparative study of motion events in Telugu and Thai, demonstrating a number of serious challenges to and problems with Talmy’s binary typology. Therefore, we need to move beyond the Talmian terrain and enter what could be characterized as the post-Talmian era. In other words, this study sets the tone for a post-Talmian motion event typology, with languages such as Telugu and Thai data serving as case studies for the new proposal. In this new framework, languages are analyzed as belonging to clusters, with each cluster exhibiting specific properties and characteristics and it is further proposed that there are at least 4 possible clusters to which languages can belong. French and Swedish, for instance, represent one cluster each while Thai and Telugu represent the remaining two other clusters respectively, based on the fact that their linguistic encoding of motion is distinct from languages in the other clusters in many respects. Study 2 supports the proposal presented in Study 1 and empirically establishes the typological features of the fourth cluster to which Telugu belongs according to the post-Talmian motion typology proposed in Study 1. The characteristics of this cluster are frequent use of deictic verbs for MOTION, the predominant use of case markers for PATH, instead of path verbs, a dedicated set of spatial nouns for REGION, violation of the “boundary-crossing constraint”, and adnominal preponderance of coding over adverbal dominance. Study 3 examines NAM expressions in Telugu within the framework of the newly proposed post-Talmian typology. It establishes a noteworthy similarity between NAM and AM patterns, with the exception of the Manner of motion. This new framework identifies the use of generic deictic verbs for MOTION, case markers for PATH, infrequent use of path verbs, REGION expressing spatial nouns, and adnominal dominance as being common in both AM and NAM events in Telugu. The absence of manner of motion in NAM is in line with the literature and is in accordance with arguments that the encoding of NAM is to be explained by factors that are deeply rooted in human cognition. It is then proposed that these typological features may also be found in other South Asian and agglutinating languages which need to be investigated in future studies. Additionally, Study 3 explores the motivations underlying the use of NAM expressions, providing additional support for a previous claim that NAM is driven by multiple distinct experiences. In sum, the thesis contributes to the field of motion event typology by proposing a new post-Talmian motion typology, signaling the need for more languages to be explored along these lines to fully validate this relatively new proposal.Item A Universal of Human Interaction? – Manual Movement as Interactional Practice in Spoken and Signed Conversation(2016-05-13) Cibulka, PaulWhen humans interact, they may make use of a range of resources, such as head movements, facial expressions, manual movement, body posture and speech. It is assumed that participants both produce and perceive this stream of information in a differentiated way: Some segments are attended to as belonging to the content of the discourse while others are rather backgrounded and may serve to regulate the interaction in terms of speakership and turn-taking. This thesis is an anthology comprised of four studies that all touch upon the role of these backgrounded segments of behaviour in both spoken and signed interaction. In particular, I analyse manual movement phases as well as self-touching behaviour in the area of the face and the head. It is found that participants may tweak individual movement phases (such as withholding the retraction to a stable rest position or transforming the manual movement into a self-touch) that provide an in situ interpretation of the sequential structure (e.g., that a given line of action is complete) and may occasion the emergence of hierarchically structured levels of degrees of involvement (e.g., it may indicate suspension of a given line of action). As a result, I suggest that speakership is best understood as a continuum, rather than a binary concept (i.e. speaker and listener). It turns out that all roles within this spectrum are not static ones but have to be enacted and performed in order to be perceived as such. I show that participants in signed and spoken conversation exploit the same resources, i.e. segments of manual movement, as part of the same practices in order to regulate speakership and turn-taking. Some of these resources are apt to be ascribed a linguistic status as part of the system of a given sign language (e.g., Swedish Sign Language and American Sign Language), while in spoken language they are often regarded as an add-on to vocal resources. This a priori divide between what counts as sign and gesture respectively obscures areas of overlap (cf. Kendon 2008) and, in the light of the results, it is suggested to treat them in the same way. Furthermore, with regard to the geographic distance and linguistic diversi- ty of the languages herein analysed (Swedish Sign Language, Japanese and German), I discuss whether the use of manual movement phases as interac- tional practice may be considered a universal in human interaction.Item A. Uddholm: Lärobok i matematik. Realklassens kurs(1925) Solander, Emil; Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriItem The Academic Seminar as an Arena of Conflict and Conflict Resolution(Department of Linguistics, 1992) Allwood, Jens; Göteborg UniversityItem An Activity Based Approach to Pragmatics(Department of Linguistics, 2000) Allwood, Jens; Göteborg UniversityItem Activity Based Studies of Linguistic Interaction(Department of Linguistics, 2007) Allwood, Jens; Göteborg UniversityItem En afliden räkneboksförfattare(1900) D.; Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriItem Africanizing scientific knowledge: the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria as a model?(2010-12-13) Ntoumi, Francine; Priebe, Gunilla; Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, SwedenAbstract In November 2009, the fifth Pan African Malaria conference was held in Nairobi. Thirteen years after the founding initiative in Dakar, the first African Secretariat based in Africa (TANZANIA) organized this major event for the malaria community. Looking back, it has been a long way: changes in the research landscape, new funding opportunities came out and establishment of new partnerships between Europe, America and Africa. Goals identified in 1997 have not all been achieved because the critical mass of scientists has not been reached yet. However a new generation of African scientists have emerged through MIM/TDR funding and advocacy for more support remains on the agenda. Could it be rightly stated today that the MIM concept reflects the africanization of malaria research?Item Aktiv huvudräkning(1946) Pamp, Harald; Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriItem En aktuell pedagogisk oppositionsriktning(1931) Frudenthal, Gunnar; Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriItem Alin, Aug-., Rymdgeometri för latingymnasiet, Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1910. 8:0. 33 sid. Pris 60 öre.(1911) Göransson, Edvard; Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriItem All There Is: On the Semantics of Quantification over Absolutely Everything(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2017-12-22) Filin Karlsson, MartinThis thesis concerns the problem of providing a semantics for quantification over absolutely all there is. Chapter 2 argues against the common view that Frege understood his quantifiers in Begriffsschrift to range over all objects and discusses Michael Dummett's analysis of the inconsistent system of Grundgesetze, which generalises into his famous argument against absolute quantification from indefinite extensibility. Chapter 3 explores the possibility to adapt Tarski's first definition of truth to hold for sentences with absolute quantification. Taking the concept of logical consequence into account results in an argument for adopting a set-theory with an ill-founded membership relation as a metatheory. Chapter 4 reviews and deflates an influential argument due to Timothy Williamson against the coherence of absolute quantification. Chapter 5 discusses three important contemporary semantic theories for absolute quantification that tackle Williamson's argument in different ways. Chapter 6 challenges the widespread view that it is impossible to give a model-theoretic semantics for absolute quantification simply by providing such a semantics in NFUp. This semantic framework provides models with the universal class as domain. I show, furthermore, that the first-order logical consequence relation stays the same in this setting, by proving the completeness theorem for first-order logic in NFUp.Item De allmänna läroverkens kursplaner i matematik(1930) Göransson, Edvard; Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriItem Ämnet räkning i folkskolan(1884) Velander, J. P; Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriItem An exploration of the nature, functions and subcategories of the discourse functional category Interactive in spoken Xhosa(2016) Hendrikse, A.P.; Nomdebevana, N.; Allwood, Jens; SCCIIL Interdisciplinary Center, University of GothenburgIt is a generally accepted view among discourse analysts that the so-called ‘discourse particles’ are extremely variable in meaning and multi-functional and consequently highly context-dependent for their understanding. As a result of this view no generally accepted view of the systematisation of the range of discourse particles, words and other expressions exists within the discourse analytical framework. Not all functionalist linguists agree with this viewpoint. Some of them, in fact, suggest that discourse particles belong to a single word class. Research done at Gothenburg University on a corpus of spoken language interactions in Swedish show that there is a range of communicative interactive functions around which interactive function expressions cluster. In this article we take these views further by attempting to systematise and classify Xhosa interactive functional expressions into functional subcategories of an overarching functional category which we call Interactive. This article is therefore an attempt to develop a taxonomy of functional expressions in Xhosa.Item Ett analytiskt geometriskt bevis för additionsteoremen för sinus och cosinus.(1909) Holmqvist, O. I.; Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriItem Angående cosinusteoremet(1908) Runqvist, N. F.; Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriItem Anmälan af tio stycken räkneböcker(1868) Hultman, Frans Wilhelm; Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori