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Ostension and Demonstrative Reference [PDF]
, 2014 . The strong similarity between the use of ostension and that of a simple demonstrative to predicate something of an object seems to conflict with equally strong intuitions according to which, while “this” does usually refer to an ...
Stefanov, Gheorghe
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The myth of occurrence-based semantics [PDF]
, 2020 The principle of compositionality requires that the meaning of a complex expression remains the same after substitution of synonymous expressions. Alleged counterexamples to compositionality seem to force a theoretical choice: either apparent synonyms ...
Pickel, Bryan, Rabern, Brian
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Determination: a universal dimension for inter-language comparison : (preliminary version) [PDF]
, 1976 The basic idea I want to develop and to substantiate in this paper consists in replacing – where necessary – the traditional concept of linguistic category or linguistic relation understood as 'things', as reified hypostases, by the more dynamic concept ...
Seiler, Hansjakob
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Do Demonstration Farms Demonstrate?
Poultry Science, 1926 Abstract The demonstration farm idea seems to be more or less in general use in extension work as an effective means of getting better practices adopted by farmers and poultrymen. At Ohio State University this method is in use by the Animal Husbandry Department, the Crops and Soils Department, the Horticultural Department, and to some extent at least
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Swahili demonstratives evaluating the validity of competing semantic hypotheses
Studies in African Linguistics, 1985 Swahili demonstratives h- and -Ie have traditionally been analysed to mean "proximity" and "non-proximity" respectively. However, this analysis fails in that it can only account for a small part of the distribution of these forms in actual texts.
Robert A. Leonard
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Harmony, Head Proximity, and the Near Parallels between Nominal and Clausal Linkers [PDF]
, 2010 This paper puts forward a notion of harmonic word order that leads to a new generalisation over the presence or absence of disharmony: specific functional heads must cross-linguistically obey this notion of harmony absolutely, while for other categories ...
Philip, J
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2017 This paper discusses the syntax of relative clauses in European Portuguese (EP) by focussing on the status of the relativizer que in restrictive and appositive relative clauses.
Elisabeth Aßmann, Esther Rinke
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What linguists always wanted to know about german and did not know how to estimate [PDF]
, 2006 This paper profiles significant differences in syntactic distribution and differences in word class frequencies for two treebanks of spoken and written German: the TüBa-D/S, a treebank of transliterated spontaneous dialogues, and the TüBa-D/Z treebank of
Hinrichs, Erhard, Kübler, Sandra
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Sellarsian Perspectives on Perception and Non-Conceptual Content [PDF]
, 2006 I argue that a Sellarsian approach to experience allows one to take seriously the thought that there is something given to us in perception without denying that we can only be conscious of conceptually structured content.
Schellenberg, Susanna
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Demonstrative reference is central to human communication. But what influences our choice of demonstrative forms such as "this" and "that" in discourse?
Roberta Rocca +2 more
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