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Interference of Implicit Causality in Relative Clause Processing. [PDF]
Open Mind (Camb)Abstract Differences in the processing of subject and object relative clauses have been explained by a combination of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors, such as a general subject advantage based on syntactic constraints, effects of animacy, and the discourse status of relative clause internal subjects.
Pozniak C, Hemforth B.
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The causal clauses with the initial position of the predicate [PDF]
, 2018 The paper discusses causal clauses in contemporary German, positioned after the main clause, which lack a conjunction combining it with that clause.
Wiktorowicz, Józef
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Necessitarianism and Dispositions [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, I argue in favor of necessitarianism, the view that dispositions, when stimulated, necessitate their manifestations. After introducing and clarifying what necessitarianism does and does not amount to, I provide reasons to support the view ...
Gozzano, Simone
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Manipulationism, Ceteris Paribus Laws, and the Bugbear of Background Knowledge [PDF]
, 2017 According to manipulationist accounts of causal explanation, to explain an event is to show how it could be changed by intervening on its cause. The relevant change must be a ‘serious possibility’ claims Woodward 2003, distinct from mere logical or ...
Kowalenko, Robert
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The effects of contract detail and prior ties on contract change : a learning perspective [PDF]
, 2021 Despite the large literature on alliance contract design, we know little about how transacting parties change and amend their underlying contracts during the execution of strategic alliances.
Klijn, Elko +4 more
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'Now' with Subordinate Clauses [PDF]
, 2017 We investigate a novel use of the English temporal modifier ‘now’, in which it combines with a subordinate clause. We argue for a univocal treatment of the expression, on which the subordinating use is taken as basic and the non-subordinating uses are ...
Altshuler, Daniel, Carter, Sam
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Programming in logic without logic programming [PDF]
, 2015 In previous work, we proposed a logic-based framework in which computation is the execution of actions in an attempt to make reactive rules of the form if antecedent then consequent true in a canonical model of a logic program determined by an initial ...
Kowalski, Robert, Sadri, Fariba
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Adverbial causal clauses as relative clauses
IsoglossThis paper investigates to what extent adverbial causal clauses and relative clauses can be reduced as one and the same phenomenon. Whereas causal clauses have always posed a challenge for a unified account of relativization and adverbial subordination in theoretical studies, typological research has long demonstrated that causal clauses are ...
Emanuela Sanfelici, Sira Rodeghiero
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"El nen s'ha menjat una aranya": The development of narratives in Catalan speaking children [PDF]
, 2020 The production of a well-constructed narrative is the culmination of several years of language acquisition and is an important milestone in children's development.
Anna JONES +22 more
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Against Miracles as Law-Violations: A Neo-Aristotelian Approach [PDF]
, 2015 Miracles are commonly understood in the way David Hume defined them: as violations of the laws of nature. I argue, however, that the conjunction of Hume’s definition with a neo-Humean view of the laws of nature yields objectionable consequences.
Joel, Archer
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