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To depict the mechanisms that have enabled the emergence of semantic conventions, philosophers and researchers particularly access a game-theoretic model: the signaling game. In this article I argue that this model is also quite appropriate to analyze not only the emergence of a semantic convention, but also its change. I delineate how the application of signaling games helps to reproduce and depict...
A well-attested phenomenon in morpho-semantic change is known as the progressive cycle, which depicts a directed and cyclic pathway of a grammatical progressive marker through its emergence and disappearance inside the imperfective domain. Deo (2015) offers a model within the framework of evolutionary game theory to study the evolutionary dynamics of four preselected types of progressive-imperfective...
I present a game-theoretical multi-agent system to simulate the evolutionary process responsible for the pragmatic phenomenon division of pragmatic labour (DOPL), a linguistic convention emerging from evolutionary forces. Each agent is positioned on a toroid lattice and communicates via signaling games, where the choice of an interlocutor depends on the Manhattan distance between them. In this framework...
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