La dichotomie entre tonalité et modalité est de nos jours monnaie courante. Le narratif commun relate la constitution progressive de la tonalité au cours des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, jusqu’à ce qu’elle atteigne son apogée avec l’avènement du classicisme viennois. Une désagrégation graduelle du système tonal au XIXe siècle entraîne sa quasi disparit...
To analyse contingent propositions, this paper investigates how branching time structures can be combined with probability theory. In particular, it considers assigning infinitesimal probabilities—available in non-Archimedean probability theory—to individual histories. This allows us to introduce the concept of ‘remote possibility’ as a new modal n...
Starting from a theoretical contextualisation, this chapter reports on the analyses of evidential markers in two datasets which each contain specialised texts and their renderings for lay target groups as respectively LSP and LGP text types, viz. ten English academic articles on the topics of cardiology and depression and their derived popular-scie...
Published in BMC public health
Multiple modalities and frequencies of contact are needed to maximize recruitment in many public health surveys. The purpose of this analysis is to characterize respondents to a statewide SARS-CoV-2 testing study whose participation followed either postcard, phone outreach or electronic means of invitation. In addition, we examine how participant c...
Published in Kompass Pneumologie
Background: The correlation between the preoperative splenic area measured on CT scans and the overall survival (OS) of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients remains unclear. Methods: A retrospective discovery cohort and validation cohort consisting of consecutive NSCLC patients who underwent resection and preoperative CT scans we...
This paper introduces the main notions that are addressed in this special issue, namely evidentiality, modality, and grammaticalization. It defines each notion and briefly synthesizes the literature. It also presents some of the controversies which surround the ideas that prevail in these research fields. Crosslinguistic examples illustrate the mai...
Mental operation accounts in the epistemology of modality, such as conceivability based theories, seek to explain modal knowledge in terms of our capacity to execute a mental operation, such as conceiving. One criticism of mental operation accounts is that without constraints we can, for example, conceive of all sorts of scenarios, and thus absent ...
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This thesis explores the integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and vector databases to address the challenges that exist when working with multimodal data and vector embeddings. Particularly between audio and text. The problems when working with data of different modalities arises because different types of data such as audio and t...
Italian irrealis conditionals with a double imperfect (Imperfetto Irrealis) have puzzling temporal and aspectual properties: unlike well-known core uses (continuative, progressive, habitual/generic) of Romance imperfects to describe an eventuality as past, they allow for the whole range of temporal interpretations, namely, the events described by t...
