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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

Internationalization Legacies and Collaboration Challenges: Post-Imperial Hybrids and Political Fallouts in Russian Higher Education

remained confused about the roles and values of internationalization in higher education (Yudkevich, 2014, see p. 1469) . Indeed, the Russian transformational context was littered with political ... , 1985; Graham & Dezhina, 2008) . Hesitations and ambiguities are understandable if one looks into the historical legacies of Russian higher education. Russian scientists confronted numerous political

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

To Be or Not to Be? The “Publish or Perish” Syndrome for English Teacher Educators in China

The philosophy of “publish or perish” has already been adopted as a yardstick by the vast majority of Chinese higher education institutions in their attempts to benchmark Western research ... of teaching and research. Positive Elements in the “Publish or Perish” Philosophy Needless to say, this trend has some positive elements and benefits to both teachers and institutions. On the one

Cultivating Citizens with Confucian Cosmopolitanism: Defining the Purpose of Liberal Arts Education in the Asian Context

productive and responsible citizens (AAC&U, 2002) . Such an educational philosophy, which originated in ancient Greece and later developed in Euro-America, is widely regarded as a Western model of higher ... autonomous self who is objective and free from bias (Appiah, 2003) , and “necessary for sociality and relationship” (Puente, 2015, p. 147) . Originating in ancient Greek philosophy, cosmopolitanism

Australia’s Engagement with Asia in the National Curriculum

curriculum. It reflects Australia’s extensive engagement with Asia in social, cultural, political and economic spheres. … An understanding of Asia underpins the capacity of Australian students to be active and ... introduced in 2014, the roots of this introduction can be traced back to the 1980s and the work of various political parties. In 1989, Robert Hawke, then Prime Minster of Australia, established the Asia

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...

Reconstructing the Foreign Teacher: The Nativization of David Crook in Beijing

, political and educational environment in China and transcending the dichotomies separating native and non-native speaking teachers as well as Chinese and non-Chinese teachers. ... philosophy. Leaving England in 1929 at the age of 18, he achieved a political awakening in the United States during the Great Depression though working in New York City, studying at Columbia University and

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

The “Beijing Consensus” and the Chinese Model of University Autonomy

hindering Chinese higher education’s development is largely owing to the political, social, and cultural factors prevailing in the environment in which the universities operate. Put in another way, Chinese ... approach adopted, and concludes it “is heavily laden with political meaning,” rather than embracing a new educational philosophy (Zhang, 2012, p. 415) . Over hundreds of years, Chinese culture and

Global Ambitions: Internationalization and China’s Rise as Knowledge Hub

opening up was not merely an economic and political reform, but an opening of the mind to the outside world, after the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. But it is important to be reminded that China’s

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

A Systematic Literature Review of Funding for Higher Education Institutions in Developed Countries

dependence theory, and political economy; (3) Several controversial issues have made their way into public debate, for example, higher education as a public good or private good, academic capitalism ... . This paper provides a systematic literature review which has been triggered by the belief that, in spite of different social and political contexts, understanding of higher education funding patterns and

Academic Freedom: A Global Comparative Approach

, practices of academic freedom vary across the world, according to variations in political cultures, educational cultures and state-university relations. The article discusses these variations with particular ... combine a universal element with space for context-specific elements. higher education; political culture; academic freedom; globalization Introduction Worldwide higher education is a unified field of

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

“I Want to Feel That I Live in China”: Imaginaries and Hospitality in International Students’ (mis-)Encounters at a Top Chinese University

education and political science. - The models for analyzing encounters tend to be Western- and/or US-centric: Kim’s emergence of intercultural identity (stress-adaptationgrowth cycle, in Tian & Lowe, 2013 ... -political and historical forces” (ibid.) must be taken into account. Finally, Bhatia & Ram (2009) propose powerful counterarguments and suggest that acculturation and identity should be considered as

José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta (1966–2020)

passion for science, energetic personality and collaborative philosophy, which he incorporated into a unique way of doing research. Over the course of his career, he published 117 scientific articles with

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