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There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation

spellout . Dordrecht: Springer. Baker , Mark. 1988 . Incorporation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bale , Alan. 2008 . A universal scale of comparison . Linguistics and Philosophy 31 : 1 - 55 . https ... : Indefiniteness and islands . Linguistics and Philosophy 43 : 427 - 472 . Chierchia , Gennaro. 1998 . Reference to kinds across language . Natural Language Semantics 6 ( 4 ): 339 - 405 . Chomsky , Noam. 1957

Mbiti and Current Issues in African Philosophy

Th e University of Frankfurt 1 Part of the African American Studies Commons, African Languages and Societies Commons, Continental Philosophy Commons, History of Religion Commons , Oral History Commons ... ://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/jtb - Most of the issues discussed in contemporary African philosophy have their origin in the seminal ideas of the pioneers in the field of African thought. John S. Mbiti is one such pioneer. His

The Value of Black Lives: The Effect of the Digital Age on African American Identity and Political Participation

Commons, Continental Philosophy Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, History of Religion Commons, Latin American History Commons , Oral History Commons, Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Commons, Other

Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias

. Giannakidou , Anastasia, and Alda Mari . 2018 . The semantic roots of positive polarity: Epistemic modal verbs and adverbs . Linguistics and Philosophy 41 : 623 - 664 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-018- 9235 ... . Hans J. Eikmeyer and Hannes Rieser , 38 - 74 . Berlin: de Gruyter. Kratzer , Angelika. 1989 . An investigation of the lumps of thought . Linguistics and Philosophy 12 : 607 - 653 . Kratzer , Angelika

Detecting variable force in imperatives: A modalized minimal approach

This paper draws attention to various environments in Greek which show that imperatives convey possibility and not necessity as widely assumed in the literature. The interaction of imperatives with other operators reveals the presence of an existential operator. At the same time, however, it is shown that imperatives cannot be analysed as invariably conveying possibility. Instead...

Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish

, Universitätsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany Abusch , Dorit. 1997 . Sequence of tense and temporal de re. Linguistics and Philosophy 20 ( 1 ): 1 - 50 . Altshuler , Daniel. 2008 . Narrative effects in Russian ... . Ryan . 2016 . Past time reference in a language with optional tense . Linguistics and Philosophy 39 ( 4 ): 247 - 294 . Bochnak , M. Ryan , Vera Hohaus, and Anne Mucha . 2019 . Variation in tense and

Exceptionally optional negative concord with Turkish neither...nor

This paper presents a novel account for the optionality of negative concord observed with neither...nor coordinations, in an otherwise strict negative concord language—Turkish. I argue that the apparently optional negative concord is a surface phenomenon that can be traced back to a structural ambiguity arising from the type-flexibility of coordination operators. The semantic...

Portions and countability: A crosslinguistic investigation

We examine three constructions across several languages in which a mass noun is embedded in what appears to be a count environment, but the construction as a whole remains mass. We argue that the discussed phenomena—“Q-noun” constructions like lots of water, bare measure constructions like kilos of sugar, and pluralised mass nouns in languages like Greek and Persian—all involve...

Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation

Studies, Bielefeld University , Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld , Germany 1 Linguistics & English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh , 3

Madiba and Martin: A Bibliography Compiled by Martha Ruff

activities, in 1963, Mandela was arrested, convicted for treason and then was in prison for 27 years. Even in bondage, he was a lightning rod for an international movement to free the political prisoners and ... political prisoners, repealed apartheid laws and held the first democratic election. In 1994 with Mandela’s presidential leadership, the people of South Africa began to lay the foundation for a “new” nation

The Spiritual Mandela: Faith and Religion in the Life of Nelson Mandela

Journal of Traditions & Beliefs: Vol. 6 Mandela Jenni L. Shelton 0 1 0 Part of the Continental Philosophy Commons, History of Religion Commons , Race, Ethnicity and Post- 1 This Review is brought to ... for Mandela (such as access to education as well as money for a legal defense) but also how ministers encouraged his faith throughout the many years he spent in prison. Due to political necessity

Honorifics without [hon]

Honorifics without [HON] Ruoan Wang 0 0 Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA , United States of America Honorifics are grammaticalized

South Africa As a Dynamic Teaching Experience

continued their education by tracking the political, social, and cultural condition of South Africa, sharing articles and discussion with their professors and among themselves, all with an overall attitude of ... Africans’ expectations. This may affect the crime rate on the individual level, and political events and strategies at the aggregated level. For example, there has been talk of appropriating large tracts of

Indefinites and free choice

, correlatives, and disjunction . Linguistics and Philosophy 32 ( 2 ): 207 - 244 . Alonso-Ovalle , Luis, and Paula Menéndez-Benito. 2010 . Modal indefinites . Natural Language Semantics 18 ( 1 ): 1 - 31 ... Philosophy 21 ( 5 ): 433 - 476 . https://doi. org/10.1023/A: 1005494000753 . Dayal , Veneeta. 2004 . The universal force of free choice . Linguistic Variation Yearbook 4 ( 1 ): 5 - 40 . https:// doi.org

An international political economic view of the biotechnology industry

This paper uses a model developed from the international political economy (IPE) school, to address the structure of the biotechnology industry. In particular, by focusing upon four primary ... ? An overview of an international political economy... International political economy and the nature... Structural factor fit Case 1 Case 2 A broadening understanding The biotechnology

An international political economic view of the biotechnology industry

This paper uses a model developed from the international political economy (IPE) school, to address the structure of the biotechnology industry. In particular, by focusing upon four primary ... ? An overview of an international political economy... International political economy and the nature... Structural factor fit Case 1 Case 2 A broadening understanding The biotechnology

An international political economic view of the biotechnology industry

This paper uses a model developed from the international political economy (IPE) school, to address the structure of the biotechnology industry. In particular, by focusing upon four primary ... ? An overview of an international political economy... International political economy and the nature... Structural factor fit Case 1 Case 2 A broadening understanding The biotechnology

Pentecostalism in an African Context

American Studies Commons Continental Philosophy Commons Ethnomusicology Commons History of Religion Commons Latin American History Commons Oral History Commons Other Languages Societies Cultures Commons ... . With the growth of global Pentecostalism, political identity is increasingly informed by faith. Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria is the product of Ruth Marshall’s sixteen

Two grammars of A’ingae glottalization: A case for Cophonologies by Phase

Spanish is prevalent, especially among younger genera tions. Despite economic, ecological, and political pressures experienced by the C ofán, their language attitudes towards A’ingae are uniformly positive

2018 Call for Submissions

, Inc 1 Part of the African American Studies Commons, Continental Philosophy Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, History of Religion Commons, Latin American History Commons , Oral History Commons, Other ... Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) were among the most influential leaders in 20th-century social and political history. Today, many years after the heyday of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa and the