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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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The Use and Functions of English in Egyptian Social Media

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the contemporary functions of English in Egypt through two interrelated lines of inquiry. First, it provides an updated account of the status and roles of English in the country, revisiting and extending Schaub's assessment in light of significant historical, socio‐economic and linguistic developments over the past two ...
Lucia La Causa
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Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXXI: papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017 Studies in Arabic linguistics ;, 8./ edited by Amel Khalfaoui, Youssef A. Haddad.

, 2019
Includes bibliographical references and index.This volume brings together ten peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The articles are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics and pragmatics, and language acquisition.
Haddad Youssef A.,, Khalfaoui Amel
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Calling for a Collective Black Translanguaging Approach to Phonics Instruction

The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 4, January/February 2027.
ABSTRACT This paper is a call to imagine a new future: one that cherishes the beauty of Black Language for young bilingual Black children learning to connect sounds and symbols in classrooms across the country. In current schooling, realizing this future will require substantial imagination and creativity to bend our approaches to reading and mend ...
Alice Y. Lee, Teaira McMurtry
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DIALECTS IN TURKEY AND NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES BETWEEN ROOTS AND BRANCHES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN THE LIGHT OF THE ARABIC LINGUISTIC HERITAGE AND ISLAMIC STUDIES

دی اسکالر
This study compares the Arabic dialects of Southeastern Turkey (Anatolian Arabic) with the neighbouring Arabic dialects of Syria and Iraq in terms of their linguistic relationship.
Mahmud Şuş
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WHICH VARIETIES OF ARABIC TO LEARN

Human Research in Rehabilitation, 2020
Teaching Arabic as a foreign language is very specific for different reasons. The main obstacle in searching for the optimal and effective teaching model for the Arabic language is the pronounced diglossia, a situation in which two languages or two ...
Andjelka Mitrovic
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Orthography Standardization in Arabic Dialects

, 2021
Orthography Standardization in Arabic Dialects Abstract Christian Cayralat1 1 Charles University Spontaneous orthography in Arabic dialects poses one of the biggest ob- stacles in the way of Dialectal Arabic NLP applications.
Cayralat, Christian
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The Rise and Fall of the Hiram–Solomon Alliance: Zionist, Hebrew and Lebanese Nationalism, and the 1982 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
Asher Kaufman
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Herder in the lab: Maximizing “cultural density” in multilingual training data for an open‐science AI project

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This paper provides ethnographic analysis of interactions between volunteers in an open‐science AI project entrusted with preparing multilingual text for use in fine‐tuning a pretrained LLM. Volunteers were encouraged to entextualize translated text into structured corpora and to write and edit prompt‐completion pairings in over 100 languages.
Joseph Wilson
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The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
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