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 transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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Syntactic change in diachrony versus contact-induced change: two sides of the same coin? [PDF]
Linguist RevD'Alessandro R, Putnam MT, Terenghi S.
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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Subjective cognition in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Complaints with SSTICS & SACCS. [PDF]
Schizophr Res CognStip E +8 more
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Bulk and grain-scale minor sulfur isotope data reveal complexities in the dynamics of Earth's oxygenation. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Izon G +8 more
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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A phylogenetic analysis of numeral anchor choice in New Guinea and lowland South America. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciVerkerk A +2 more
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Making Referents Seen and Heard Across Signed and Spoken Languages: Documenting and Interpreting Cross-Modal Differences in the Use of Enactment. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Vandenitte S.
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