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The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 76-95, March 2026.Abstract Spelling is the most standardized level of language, and prescriptive spelling norms in former British colonies often advocate adherence to British spelling norms which differs from the local linguistic reality. Hence, recent research on the evolution of postcolonial Englishes and the Americanization of Englishes worldwide has questioned the ...
Temitayo Olatoye
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Once Again Why Lexicography Is Science
Lexikos, 2018 The article addresses some issues connected with the disciplinary status of lexicography. Drawing on the views of scholars such as L. Zgusta, R. Ilson, H. Wiegand, R. Gouws, H. Bergenholtz, S. Tarp, R.
Tinatin Margalitadze
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On Strengthening the Logic of Iterated Belief Revision: Proper Ordinal Interval Operators [PDF]
, 2018 Darwiche and Pearl’s seminal 1997 article outlined a number of baseline principles for a logic of iterated belief revision. These principles, the DP postulates, have been supplemented in a number of alternative ways.
Booth, Richard, Chandler, Jake
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Strategic Flip‐Flopping in Political Competition
International Economic Review, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 79-96, February 2026.ABSTRACT We study candidates' position adjustments in response to information about voters' preferences. Repositioning allows candidates to move closer to the median voter, but it incurs financial and electoral costs. In a subgame‐perfect equilibrium, candidates diverge from the center ex ante if the costs of adjustment are sufficiently large.
Gaëtan Fournier +2 more
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Woordeboekdidaktiek in ’n omvattende woordeboekkultuur
Literator, 2018 Dictionary didactics within a comprehensive dictionary culture. This article argues that the curricula of language and linguistics departments should include a component on lexicography.
Rufus Gouws
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Multi-Profile Intergenerational Social Choice [PDF]
Ferejohn and Page transplanted a stationarity axiom from Koopmans' theory of impatience into Arrow's social choice theory with an infinite horizon and showed that the Arrow axioms and stationarity lead to a dictatorship by the first generation.
Bossert, Walter, Suzumura, Kotaro
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 55-75, February 2026.Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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Basic Problems of Learner's Lexicography *
Lexikos, 2011 <p>Abstract: In general, learner's dictionaries suffer from the fact that lexicography has beentreated as a subdiscipline of linguistics and not as an independent discipline and that, correspondingly,no serious efforts have been made to develop a ...
Sven Tarp
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 198-223, January 2026.Abstract The term semantic primitives refers to a set of basic, atomic concepts from which all other (compound) concepts are constructed. It presupposes the principle of compositionality—the idea that complex items or expressions can be formed by combining simpler constituents.
Birger Hjørland
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Is there really a dictator's dilemma? Information and repression in autocracy
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 1, Page 381-395, January 2026.Abstract In his seminal work on the political economy of dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe posited the existence of a “dictator's dilemma,” in which repression leaves an autocrat less secure by reducing information about discontent. We explore the nature and resolution of this dilemma with a formalization that builds on recent work in the political economy
Scott Gehlbach +3 more
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