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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
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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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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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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
World 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
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Linguistic Discovery, 2011 Hinuq (Nakh-Daghestanian language family, Caucasus, Russia) has a rich system of verbal forms. In independent/main clauses there are seven synthetic TAM forms, 20 periphrastic TAM forms, and two heterogeneous TAM forms that cannot be attributed clearly ...
Diana Forker
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Adverbials and inversion in early english scientific writing [PDF]
, 2015 From a historical perspective, the English language shifted from being basically verb final in the Old English period (Traugott 1992: 274) to verb non-final from the Middle English period onwards (Fischer 1992: 371), that is, from SOV to SVO.
Romero-Barranco, Jesús
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World 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
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On the Syntax of Instrumental Clauses: The Case of Indem-Clauses in German
LanguagesIn this article, I examine the external and internal syntax of instrumental indem-clauses in German. As a subordidating conjunction, indem takes a finite TP as its complement and triggers verb final position.
Łukasz Jędrzejowski
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.This study highlights a collaborative initiative with Atayal tribal leaders to co‐develop books at two levels of difficulty that feature recurring and supportive grammatical structures. Across the two levels, some books shared similar sentence structures; others did not. Findings demonstrate that the intervention successfully reinforced the intertwined
Ching‐Ting Hsin +2 more
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Differences and similarities between European and Brazilian Portuguese in the use of the «gerúndio»
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2004 This paper provides a partial description of the main differences between European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) concerning the use of the «gerúndio».
Evani Viotti, Telmo Móia
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