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Record W2493277041 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511486760.006

Tense, epistemic distance, and embedded spaces

2005· book-chapter· en· W2493277041 on OpenAlexaff
Barbara Dancygier, Eve Sweetser

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2005
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicLanguage, Metaphor, and Cognition
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEpistemologyContext (archaeology)Past tensePsychologyPhilosophyLinguisticsHistoryArchaeologyVerb

Abstract

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“If I'd seen the machete, I'd have handled it differently.” (Headline, Vancouver Sun , June 6, 2001) The polysemy of past-tense forms As noted at the end of the last chapter, distanced future-reference conditionals use past-tense forms rather than future ones. Out of context, (1) could be an assessment of future eventualities, viewed with negative epistemic stance: (1) If he decided to file the suit, the hospital's lawyers would be allowed to interview him for discovery. However, (1) could equally well be a past narrative description of a conditional situation – a situation which was neutral in stance and future relative to the characters' situation.), only context tells us whether the past-tense verb forms are marking tense or epistemic stance. Fleischman (1989) has discussed the pervasive crosslinguistic correlation between past-tense marking and distanced stance. It has also been noted that tense marking is one of the most basic cues for relationships between mental spaces (Fauconnier 1985 [1994], 1997; Cutrer 1994; Mejías-Bikandi 1996). In Example (2) there is no ambiguity. The conditional presented is in past-tense form not because it is distanced epistemically, but because it is embedded in a past-tense narrative space. (2) The gun had dug a deep bruise into my side when I tumbled from the boxcar. I'd be sore for four or five days, but if I was careful I'd be okay … Lotty dispensed that verdict at her clinic Sunday afternoon … (SP. HT.233)

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.007
Scholarly communication0.0030.008
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.227
Teacher spread0.208 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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