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Intransitive preferences or choice errors? A reply to birnbaum

open access: yes, 2020
Birnbaum (2020) reanalyses the data from Butler and Pogrebna (2018) using his ‘true and error’ test of choice patterns. His results generally support the evidence we presented in that paper.
Butler, D
core  

Arguments or macroroles? : Two functional approaches to Old English quirky case

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 2002
After comparing two functional approaches to the question of Old English deviant accusatives, genitives and datives, this paper follows Martín Arista (2001a, b) with respect to Old English prototypical verbal constructions: the prototypical transitive ...
Francisco Javier Martín Arista   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parity and the Permissivism Puzzle: A Defense of Epistemic Options

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Moral philosophers generally affirm that there are moral options: a single person sometimes has multiple morally permissible actions at a time. But epistemologists generally deny that there are epistemic options: a single person never has multiple epistemically permissible doxastic attitudes at a time. This asymmetry is striking.
Chris Tucker, Elizabeth Jackson
wiley   +1 more source

When Business Breaks the Rules: The Value of a Criminology‐Informed “Organizational” Perspective for the Regulation of White‐Collar and Corporate Crimes

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that if the aspiration is to enhance regulatory and governance responses to white‐collar and corporate crimes, consideration of the organization of these offending behaviors must be central to the scholarly, practice, and policy discussion.
Nicholas Lord, Michael Levi
wiley   +1 more source

Intransitive Transitivity: The Derivation of Syntactically Intransitive Two-Place Predicates in Séliš-Ql̓ispé

open access: yes, 2022
In this dissertation I investigate the structure of syntactically intransitive sentences in Séliš-Ql̓ispé (Southern Interior Salish) using a Distributed Morphology framework.
McKay, Isabel Cooke
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Contextual deletion of object and ambiguity in machine translation

open access: yesRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1994
Constructions surfacing as intransitive are highly ambiguous in English. They may be the reflection of a true intransitive verb or, rather, the result of one of the linguistic processes which derive an intransitive construction from a canonical ...
Álvarez Benito, Gloria   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leibniz on Compossibility: Towards a Neo‐Logical Interpretation

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Leibniz's concept of compossibility explains why not all possible substances are actualised, thereby resisting Spinoza's necessitarianism. Yet, the precise basis of incompossibility remains unresolved. The influential ‘logical’ interpretation—exemplified by the Hintikka–D'Agostino thesis—locates incompossibility in contradictions among ...
Jun Young Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs in Relation to Allah’s Acts from Religious and Grammatical Perspectives S [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Islamic Studies, 2013
This research explores the meanings of the terms “transitive” and “intransitive” in relation to Allah’s acts, and if Shari’ah specialists and grammarians agree on the meanings, with special reference to the views of Ibn-Taymiyah and Ibn-Alqayyim.
uoliman Ibn-Mohamed Al-Dobikhy
doaj  

Observation of simple intransitive actions: the effect of familiarity. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
INTRODUCTION: Humans are more familiar with index - thumb than with any other finger to thumb grasping. The effect of familiarity has been previously tested with complex, specialized and/or transitive movements, but not with simple intransitive ones. The
Julio Plata Bello   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
wiley   +1 more source

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