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Some notes on word order and interpretation in Dutch and Finnish

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2012
Dutch is typically known to allow scrambling. Finnish on the other hand has a flexible word order. Even though the two languages differ in many aspects and Finnish does not have scrambling in the sense of an alternation between an adverb and an object ...
Eefje Boef, Lena dal Pozzo
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Locative Inversion in Old English Embedded Clauses

Languages
A grammatical construction resembling Present-Day English locative inversion has already been found in Old English, with a fronted prepositional phrase prompting V2 word order, both in main and subordinate clauses.
Sergio López-Martínez
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Embedding mental files in the world

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Cognitive scientific explanations can take either a mechanistic or design perspective. Some recent philosophical works propose to apply the mechanistic perspective to the influential mental file framework. The design perspective, however, remains underexplored.
Zhengxi Jin
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Pulling Down the Hierarchy

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is about the hierarchy view: that each word has infinitely many meanings, arranged into levels, with the level n meaning serving as its semantic value when it occurs embedded to degree n in indirect or attitude reporting verbs. Departing from the famous debates over the bare tenability of the hierarchy view, I focus on whether there
Mark McCullagh
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On the Limits of Intransitive Coordination

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing number of authors suggest that concept coordination—the kind of relation we pick out when we say that the concepts of one or more individuals represent something as the same—is not a transitive relation. Here we consider global features of representational systems to break new ground in the assessment of the intransitivity view. From
Víctor M. Verdejo, Joost J. Joosten
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Two adequacy conditions on a minimalist account of truth dependence

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract According to Aristotle's Categories (14b14–22), the proposition that p is true because p, but it is not the case that p because the proposition that p is true. Call this truth dependence. Truth dependence is challenging for Horwich's minimalism.
Susanna Melkonian‐Altshuler
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On nominal ellipsis and the valuation of definiteness in romanian

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2010
The paper proposes a syntactic and interpretative account of nominal ellipsis in Romanian DPs. After reviewing previous accounts, we conclude that a suitable theory should unify total ellipsis (with no remnant) with partial ellipsis, (with at least one ...
Alexandru Nicolae, Alexandra Cornilescu
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Winged horses, rascals and discourse referents

Theoria, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper discusses some remarks Kaplan made in ‘Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice’ concerning empty names. I show how his objections to a particular view involving descriptions derived from Ramsification can be avoided by a nearby alternative framed in terms of discourse reference.
Andreas Stokke
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