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Monomorphemic Anaphors and Polymorphemic Anaphors
Studies in Linguistics, 2012 The purpose of this paper is two-fold. The general goal of this paper is to characterize monomorphemic anaphors and polymorphemic anaphors. A specific goal of this paper, on the other hand, is to propose separate Binding Condition A to regulate the distribution of the Korean reflexives caki "self", ku-casin "he-self", and caki-casin "self-self".
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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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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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ti<, 2014 Série d'il y a pour former une histoire sur le modèle du poème de Guillaume ...
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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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The Role of Space and Body in Referent Distinction Strategies: A Cross‐Cultural Comparison
Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 9, September 2026.Abstract The emergence of linguistic structure is shaped by interaction and cultural transmission as well as cognitive biases and social conventions. An important aspect of linguistic structure is reference distinction or “who did what to whom.” This paper explores how cross‐cultural differences in the conceptualization of space may influence the ...
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