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McDowell and Sellars on Objective Purport
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 313-332, March 2026.Abstract John McDowell has criticized Wilfrid Sellars on several occasions and over a number of years for his ‘non‐relational’ account of intentionality. This account is, according to McDowell, at least partly responsible for a ‘blind spot’ in Sellars's thinking: Sellars, allegedly, fails to see how objects or states of affairs in the external world ...
Stefan Brandt
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N+V complex predicates in Guinean Kpelle:
MandenkanThe paper focuses on noun-based complex predicates (NVCPs) in Guinean Kpelle (iso 639-3 [gkp], Southwestern Mande). We explore the degree of nominal boundedness and the bracketing within complex predicates by looking at the phonological, morphological ...
Maria Konoshenko, Maria Uvarova
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 67-102, March 2026.Abstract This study investigates how distributional cues are integrated into the mental representation of the as‐predicative construction by English native and nonnative speakers, drawing on associative learning theory. We examined speakers’ constructional retrieval when given a verbal cue (Experiment 1) and their verb retrieval when given a ...
Ivana Domazetoska, Helen Zhao
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Thematic Roles In Analysing Semantic Roles Of The Sentence
Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Khoa học Xã hội, 2012 Language learners need strategies for interpreting contextual clues, which can provide them with information about the likely content of the languge to which they are being exposed. An English sentence is make up of units that combine to contribute to
Hứa Văn Đức
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 103-131, March 2026.Abstract The current study investigated from a usage‐based perspective how phrasal frequency and collocational strength of verb–preposition collocations influence preposition placement in wh‐relative clauses. Native English speakers and Chinese learners of English as a second language of the intermediate and advanced English proficiencies completed a ...
Henan Duan (she/her) +2 more
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SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC PATTERNS OF PROPERTY PREDICATE REFLEXION IN GERMAN
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2014 The article focuses on references of semantic and syntactic patterns to cognitive comprehension of an extralinguistic event by means of semantic predicate of property.
Generalova Larisa Mikhaylovna
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The Gradability of ‘Conscious’
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 2, Page 392-405, March 2026.ABSTRACT Are some creatures “more conscious” than others? A number of consciousness researchers have aimed to answer this question. Yet some have claimed that this question does not even make sense. They claim that “conscious” (in the phenomenal sense) never occurs as a gradable adjective, meaning an adjective that permits degree expressions (“more f ...
Andrew Y. Lee, Poppy Mankowitz
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Covert Nouns and Definiteness in Superlatives
IsoglossThe Italian definite superlative phrase la/il più found in predicate superlative constructions is analyzed in the light of parallels to Syrian Arabic superlative constructions.
Peter Hallman, Margherita Pallottino
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Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 2020 The article presents analyses of the form of the noun used as a predicate in the spoken Eastern Slavonic language, the language of the Lemkos, which has been in contact with the Polish language.
Jan Patrick Zeller
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The Concept of the Relative Adjective
Prague Journal of English Studies, 2014 This article aims to give a cognitive linguistic account of the dual nature of the concept of relative adjectives, and the specific character of their semantic processes.
Vinogradova Svetlana
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