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Translation‐Induced Interrogative Relativizers and Stability in Icelandic
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 1-32, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Throughout the history of Icelandic, invariant particles, which do not inflect for semantic or syntactic features of the antecedent, are the typical markers of relative clauses (Þráinsson 2007). Another, putatively foreign strategy—relativization with interrogative–relative pronouns—is archaic in Modern Icelandic, but is frequent between the ...
Christian D. Brendel
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Saying Yes without Yes: The Positive Response System in Latin
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 65-90, March 2023., 2023 Abstract The article studies a set of three positive response strategies in Latin: the echo response and the positive response particles ita and sic. It aims to determine their functions and division of labour and to establish what kind of agreement strategy existed in Latin, based on the typology of positive response systems by Sadock and Zwicky (1985)
Tomaž Potočnik
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Theoria, Volume 88, Issue 2, Page 296-325, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper is about the Causal Theory of Names, as outlined by Kripke in Naming and Necessity. The paper argues that causal chains which connect users in command of a name N with those present at the baptismal event in which N was introduced are branches of networks of ‘N‐labelled’ entity representations in the minds of past and present users ...
Hans Kamp
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Weather predicates, binding, and radical contextualism
Mind &Language, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 56-72, February 2022., 2022 The implicit content indicating location associated with “raining” and other weather predicates is a definite description meaning “the location occupied by x,” where the individual variable “x” can be referential or bound. This position has deleterious consequences for certain varieties of radical contextualism.
Paul Elbourne
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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Donkey Anaphora in Sign Language: Evidence from LSF and ASL
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2009 There are two main approaches to the problem of donkey anaphora (e.g. If John owns a donkey, he beats it ). Proponents of dynamic approaches take the pronoun to be a logical variable, but they revise the semantics of quantification so as to allow an indefinite to bind a variable that is not within its syntactic scope.
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Determiners do not need to manage donkey anaphora
Semantics and Linguistic TheoryIf a quantificational determiner denotes a relation between the restrictor and the scope, then in order to handle donkey anaphora, the transmission of anaphoric information from the restrictor to the scope must be baked into the lexical semantics of the determiner.
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Referential Dependencies Between Conflicting Attitudes. [PDF]
J Philos Logic, 2017 Maier E.
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Discourse accessibility constraints in children's processing of object relative clauses. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2015 Haendler Y, Kliegl R, Adani F.
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