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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
Philosophy of current knowledge distinguishes facts from values. It maintains that facts are objective, indisputable, universally verifiable and do not require to persuade. Since rhetoric is ... philosophy of logical positivism transformed rhetoric from a respected art to a contemptible form of trickery and deceit is both extremely important, and largely unknown and unfamiliar. This story is too
paper sketches trends in philosophy of science which led to a methodology which permits creation of mental models disconnected from reality. A key development was the separation of the observable ... with imaginary toy models? Opinions diverge radically on this issue, which is quite embarrassing from both the scientific and the political point of view.” Instead of joining this debate, we take the
. 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
David Freedmans impressive paper reveals well his deep understanding of not only statistical techniques and their uses but also of scientific methodology and its philosophy. On visits to Berkeley ... ,” namely that any area of study, be it physics, astronomy, economics, political science, etc., can be scientific if scientific methods are employed in producing, analyzing and learning from data. Now it may
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...
, 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
. 3.2. Inter and Multi-Disciplinary Approach Adam Smith was a professor of Moral Philosophy. For a long time, the title of “Political Economy” reflected the understanding that politics could not be ... policy recommendations generated by an MMT perspective. For more details on how these ideas could be implemented, see Zaman (Jan 7, 2020) . 2.3. Political Economy Once we recognize the importance of
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...
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...
Studies, Bielefeld University , Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld , Germany 1 Linguistics & English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh , 3
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
, 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
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
coordination in ASL. Semantics & Pragmatics 6(Art. 4): 1–44. https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.6.4. Davidson, Kathryn. 2015. Quotation, demonstration, and iconicity. Linguistics and Philosophy 38(6): 477–520. https
mediocre performers before the current singer. Tha {#e / esan / #e fhèin} uabhasach math air seinn. be.PRS 3SG.M 3SG.M.EM 3SG.M.ANA very well at sing.VN ‘He’s singing very well.’ We’re watching a political ... pronouns: A feature-geometric analysis . Language 78 ( 3 ): 482 - 526 . Katzir , Roni. 2007 . Structurally-defined alternatives . Linguistics and Philosophy 30 : 669 - 690 . Patel-Grosz , Pritty, and Patrick
perfectly clear. Despite the appearance of mathematical rigor and the claims to objectivity, results of environmental models are often exquisitely tuned to the sensibilities of the modelers. In political ... chapter (Brady et al., 2004) finds that ―it is difficult to make causal inferences from observational data, especially when research focuses on complex political processes. Behind the apparent precision
of the positivist philosophy were wrong. Logical positivism had a “spectacular crash,” and there was some 1 dispute about who had “killed” logical positivism . As a logical consequence, it became ... foundations. The goal of this section is to provide enough details of the history and philosophy of science to make this claim plausible. 2.1. The Rise and Fall of Logical Positivism Kung (1997) has
The Nakh-Daghestanian language Tabasaran displays indexical shift in the reported speech construction. Having many properties in common with indexical shift attested in other languages, the shift of embedded pronouns in Tabasaran depends strongly on the presence of person clitics on the embedded verb in the reported speech. Pronouns doubled by clitics receive a shifted...