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The cognitive role of concept variability
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 66-87, February 2026.I present and defend concept variability, the view that concepts can admit of indefinitely many variations and changes in their representational contents without thereby losing their identity. I argue that the variability of concepts is central to their role in enabling cognition, and thus that a concept's content variability is, despite philosophical ...
Alnica Visser
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O rozbieżnych etymologiach nazwisk polskich i litewskich
Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2017 On divergent etymologies of Polish and Lithuanian surnames The conflict of national Polish and Lithuanian historiographies typically involves divergent interpretations of the shared history, but it is seldom noticed that linguistic interpretations ...
Justyna Barbara Walkowiak
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A lexikális jelentésviszonyok élményközpontú tanítása multimediális szövegekkel [Experience-based teaching of lexical-semantic relatedness by multimedial texts] [PDF]
Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2017 This paper intends to describe new ways of teaching lexical-semantic relatedness with the help of texts and image-text relations published primarily on Facebook.
Szerdi, Ilona
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Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 2-20, February 2026.Orthodoxy assumes that the first‐person thoughts of an individual are anchored to a stable object. I challenge this assumption by arguing that “I” is polysemous. The perspectival anchor of a first‐person thought could be the bearer of the thought, the agent, the bearer of perception, or a body, to name just a few options.
Susanna Schellenberg
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Socio-anthropologie, 2017 My essay concerns two cases, two individuals, who lived at about the same time, between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. One is very well known: Garcilaso de la Vega, « El Inca ». The other is known only by specialists: John David Rhys. The first,
Carlo Ginzburg
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Finding the right structure for lexicographical data: experiences from a terminology project [PDF]
, 2006 This paper deals with issues related to the design of structures for holding lexicographical and terminographical data, drawing from experiences gained during a terminology project.
Měchura, Michal Boleslav
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Revue suisse de zoologie., 1981 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Polysemy and roots: Deep versus shallow fetching
Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 472-491, November 2025.The paper argues for a model of polysemy based on the blueprint offered by Paul Pietroski whereby the meaning of a lexical item is an instruction to fetch a concept from an address. We show that the bare idea of fetching admits of a deep construal, where a concept is fetched, and a shallow construal, where the instruction merely links a lexical item to
John Collins, Tamara Dobler
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Etymological Aspects of Ambiguity in Arabic Language and its impact on the translation of the Holy Quran [PDF]
پژوهشهای ترجمه در زبان و ادبیات عربی, 2015 We can divide ambiguity in etymological structures of the Arabic language in two types: 1-Ambiguities that might arise, but have been prevented by taking some tact. 2- Structures that are potentially produced ambiguity. Early scholars have named only the
Yusuf Nazari
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Modelling Social Structures and Hierarchies in Language Evolution [PDF]
, 2010 Language evolution might have preferred certain prior social configurations over others. Experiments conducted with models of different social structures (varying subgroup interactions and the role of a dominant interlocutor) suggest that having isolated
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