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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
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
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ADVERB U KONTRASTU – KRITERIJUMI ZA RAZGRANIČENJE VRSTE REČI
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
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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
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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
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ALMANCA VE TÜRKÇE’DEKİSESTEŞKELİMELER VE BU KELİMELERİN HER İKİDİLDEKİ KARŞILIKLARI VE FONKSİYONLARI
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
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
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Sweet as – The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
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
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It\u27s My Centennial! said Tom Swiftly [PDF]
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
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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
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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
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