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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
wiley   +1 more source

ADVERB U KONTRASTU – KRITERIJUMI ZA RAZGRANIČENJE VRSTE REČI

open access: yesFilolog, 2020
Suočeni sa činjenicom da se u literaturi, posebno u novijoj germanističkoj, sve više osporava status prilogu kao vrsti reči, a da u srpskom nema dovoljno jasnih kriterijuma za njegovo određenje, u priloženom radu čini se pokušaj da se na osnovu ...
Božinka M. Petronijević
doaj  

Independent Effects of Age, Education, Verbal Working Memory, Motor Speed of Processing, Locality, and Morphosyntactic Category on Verb‐Related Morphosyntactic Production: Evidence From Healthy Aging

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modal verbs in South Asian Online Englishes: Exploring the use of must, (have) got to, have to and need to

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
wiley   +1 more source

ALMANCA VE TÜRKÇE’DEKİSESTEŞKELİMELER VE BU KELİMELERİN HER İKİDİLDEKİ KARŞILIKLARI VE FONKSİYONLARI

open access: yesSelçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2007
Bu çalışmada, Türkçe ve Almanca’daki sesteş eşsesli kelimeler ve bunların kullanımlarımukayese edilmişve her iki dildeki anlamlarıverilmeye çalışılmıştır.
Mehmet Aygün
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The double modal construction in English world wide

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Sweet as – The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
wiley   +1 more source

It\u27s My Centennial! said Tom Swiftly [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Starting in 1910, boys grew up devouring the adventures of Tom Swift, a sterling hero and natural scientific genius created by Edward Stratemeyer. Many of Tom\u27s inventions predated technological developments in real life -- electric cars, seacopters ...
Lederer, Richard
core   +1 more source

A shift in writer identity: teacher reflections on how their sense of self as writers informs practice

open access: yesLiteracy, Volume 60, Issue 2, May 2026.
Abstract This paper explores the experiences and reflections of primary teachers who participated in a UK collaborative professional development that focussed on developing teacher‐writer identity through online writing workshops. The notion that teachers who identify as writers better understand their pupils as writers is central to the study; however,
Kerry Assemakis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Another Look at the Present Perfect in an Andean Variety of Spanish: Grammaticalization and Evidentiality in Quiteño Spanish

open access: yes, 2013
The existence of an extensive body of literature on the Present Perfect (PP), both Spanish-specific (cf. Alarcos Llorach 1947, Copple 2011, Escobar 1997, Gili Gaya 1972, Howe 2013, Rodríguez Louro 2009, Schwenter 1994, Schwenter & Torres Cacoullos 2008 ...
Dumont, Jenny
core  

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