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McDowell and Sellars on Objective Purport

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract John McDowell has criticized Wilfrid Sellars on several occasions and over a number of years for his ‘non‐relational’ account of intentionality. This account is, according to McDowell, at least partly responsible for a ‘blind spot’ in Sellars's thinking: Sellars, allegedly, fails to see how objects or states of affairs in the external world ...
Stefan Brandt
wiley   +1 more source

Grammar Searches for Wh‐Questions in Beginning‐Level Child Second Language Learners

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is important for learners to be able to ask wh‐questions in interaction. However, making wh‐questions can be difficult for beginning‐level EFL leaners, particularly for those learners whose L1 and L2 differ in the way wh‐questions are formed.
Haerim Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

Irish treebanking and parsing: a preliminary evaluation [PDF]

, 2012
Language resources are essential for linguistic research and the development of NLP applications. Low- density languages, such as Irish, therefore lack significant research in this area.
Cetinoglu, Ozlem, Dras, Mark, Foster, Jennifer, Lynn, Teresa, Uí Dhonnchadha, Elaine, van Genabith, Josef   +5 more
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Situated Attention and Strategic Leadership Interfaces: The Role of CEO Humility and Digital Transformation Urgency for Corporate Venture Capital Investments

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Integrating the attention‐based view with the strategic leadership interfaces perspective, we propose a theoretical model of situational urgency mechanisms influencing the allocation of CEOs' attention towards responsive actions. Specifically, we theorize upon the role of humility, which leads CEOs towards embracing interfaces and makes them ...
Petrit Ademi, Philipp Schade, Monika C. Schuhmacher   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arabic verbless sentences: is there a null VP? [PDF]

, 2005
Este trabajo pretende describir y analizar el fenómeno de la ausencia de verbo copulativo en tiempo presente en las oraciones sin verbo en árabe. Por regla general, se asume que, en árabe, las oraciones sin verbo contienen un verbo copulativo nulo o ...
Al-Horais, Nasser
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The Gradability of ‘Conscious’

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Are some creatures “more conscious” than others? A number of consciousness researchers have aimed to answer this question. Yet some have claimed that this question does not even make sense. They claim that “conscious” (in the phenomenal sense) never occurs as a gradable adjective, meaning an adjective that permits degree expressions (“more f ...
Andrew Y. Lee, Poppy Mankowitz
wiley   +1 more source

Against a Davidsonian analysis of copula sentences [PDF]

, 2003
Semantic research over the past three decades has provided impressive confirmation of Donald Davidsons famous claim that “there is a lot of language we can make systematic sense of if we suppose events exist” (Davidson 1980:137).
Maienborn, Claudia
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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
wiley   +1 more source

(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
wiley   +1 more source

Expletive Constructions and Agreement in Labeling Theory

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I explain how agreement occurs in English expletive constructions, in accord with recent work in the Minimalist Program. I develop a proposal that relies on feature unification and probe‐goal agreement, as well as the notion that internal merge of arguments generally applies freely.
Jason Ginsburg
wiley   +1 more source