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Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 408-424, December 2026.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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German participle II constructions as adjuncts [PDF]
, 2013 The present investigation is concerned with German participles II (past participles) as lexical heads of adjuncts. Within a minimalist framework of sound-meaning correlation, the analysis presupposes a lexicalist conception of morphology and the ...
Zimmermann, Ilse
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Multifunctional Affixes in Formal Approaches
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, November/December 2026.ABSTRACT Multifunctional affixes are affixes that occur in different structural or morphosyntactic environments and are associated with different functions or interpretations in those environments. We begin by presenting the theoretical puzzles raised by such affixes.
Stefan Milosavljević +2 more
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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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How generics obscure the logic of conditionals
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 5, Page 669-692, November 2026.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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The Epistemology and Semantics of Ignorance
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 3, Page 618-628, November 2026.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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The syntax of adverbial clauses
, 2013 The chapter argues for an approach according to which adverbial clauses are derived by movement of an operator to the left periphery. It is shown that this hypothesis will allow for an elegant account for the distribution of main clause phenomena in ...
Haegeman, Liliane
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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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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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Refining the Italian clausal spine in light of Central Adverbial Clauses
IsoglossWhile adjuncts like adverbs (AdvPs) and prepositional phrases (PPs) have been shown to be hierarchically merged in a fixed, universal order along the clausal spine (Cinque 1999, 2006), the external syntax of adverbial clauses (Adv-CPs) remains rather ...
Sofia Ferroni, Emanuela Sanfelici
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