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Preposed adverbial clauses: Functional adaptation and diachronic inheritance
, 2019 In the historical literature it is commonly assumed that subordinate clauses are derived from paratactic sentences. However, while this assumption is not implausible for certain types of postposed adverbial clauses, there is no obvious connection between
Holger Diessel
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How generics obscure the logic of conditionals
Mind &Language, EarlyView.This paper discusses counter‐examples to modus ponens and modus tollens involving modals and quantificational adverbs, and presents new counter‐examples with generic conditionals. We argue that the counter‐examples are spurious, and are explained by the domain‐restricting effects of if‐clauses.
Daniel Lassiter +3 more
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Comparative study of English and Uzbek adverbial clauses [PDF]
, 2022 This article covers a comparative view of adverbial clauses in English and Uzbek languages, and presents the similarities and differences between them. Problematic areas of using adverbial clauses are provided and suggestions are given for Uzbek learners
Turakulova Dilafruz Muxammadsoli qizi
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I develop and defend a sense‐datum theory of perception. My theory follows the spirit of classic sense‐datum theories: I argue that what it is to have a perceptual experience is to be acquainted with some sense‐data, where sense‐data are private particulars that have all the properties they appear to have, that are common to both perception ...
Andrew Y. Lee
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Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra, 2011 The participial construction is one that exists in English but not in Indonesian. With regard to the translation, it might not be easy to translate a text having a structure that exists in one language (as a source language/SL) but not in the other (as a
Menik Winiharti
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The Epistemology and Semantics of Ignorance
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with ignorance. It develops a novel, full account of the nature and epistemic normativity of objectual and factual ignorance, degrees of ignorance, comparative ignorance, and the semantics of permissible outright attributions of ignorance of facts and phenomena.
Mona Simion, Christoph Kelp, Lilith Mace
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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Adverbial Clauses and Speaker and Interlocutor Gender in Shakespeare’s Plays [PDF]
, 2017 This study draws on previous findings regarding adverbial clauses in relation to speaker and interlocutor gender in a corpus of current actual speaker data.
Kelsey Kiser +3 more
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Must Can: Double‐Modal Constructions in Hong Kong English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous studies have focused on double‐modal constructions (DMs) in Englishes in the Inner Circle at the expense of the Outer Circle. Using data collected from internet forums and corpora, this study aims to narrow the research gap by examining DMs in Hong Kong English (HKE), an English variety in the Outer Circle.
Pun Ho Lui
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, 2020 This experiment tests potential Principle C violations across clauses. Variable Binding was used as an experimental tool in order to investigate the degree of integration of German peripheral adverbial clauses introduced by adversative während 'while ...
von Wietersheim, Sophie
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