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Speaker attitude and demonstrative choice in Ncane (Beboid)
Ncane is an underdocumented Bantoid language, which offers speakers multiple choices for referring to aforementioned participants. Anaphoric reference is usually made through a noun and an accompanying anaphoric demonstrative.
Richard L. Boutwell
doaj
Gradability and Knowledge [PDF]
Epistemic contextualism (‘EC’), the view that the truth-values of knowledge attributions may vary with the context of ascription, has a variety of different linguistic implementations.
Michael, Blome-Tillmann
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Determiner-Number Specification and Non-Local Agreement Computation in L1 and L2 Processing. [PDF]
Cheng Y +3 more
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COMMUNICATION AND GRAMMATICALIZATION. THE CASE OF (CROATIAN) DEMONSTRATIVES
The focus of this paper is on the role that shared reference plays in communication and, relatedly, on the way in which communicative needs drive the formation and development of grammatical categories.
Maja Brala-Vukanović
doaj
Acquaintance and first-person attitude reports [PDF]
It is often assumed that singular thought requires that an agent be epistemically acquainted with the object the thought is about. However, it can sometimes truthfully be said of someone that they have a belief about an object, despite not being ...
Schiller, Henry Ian
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A conceptual framework for the study of demonstrative reference. [PDF]
Peeters D, Krahmer E, Maes A.
europepmc +1 more source
This paper is largely exegetical/interpretive. My goal is to demonstrate that some criticisms that have been leveled against the program Gareth Evans constructs in The Varieties of Reference (Evans 1980, henceforth VR) misfire because they are based on ...
Grush, Rick
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Cognitive and Pragmatic Perspectives on Speech Actions. Editorial to Ril 10.3 [PDF]
Iwona, Witczak-Plisiecka
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