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Pragmatism and Political Pluralism - Consensus and Pluralism [PDF]

Academicus International Scientific Journal, 2015
A pragmatist thinker like Nicholas Rescher deems the idea that social harmony must be predicated in consensus to be both dangerous and misleading. An essential problem of our time is the creation of political and social institutions that enable people to live together in peaceful and productive ways, despite the presence of not eliminable disagreements
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Diminutives and plurals of Dutch nouns

Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, 2014
In Dutch dictionaries, nouns appear with their plural and their diminutive. This reflects the intuition among native speakers that a noun normally has these two related forms.
Pius ten Hacken
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2 + 2 = 3: Number contrasts in Blackfoot

Glossa, 2017
Blackfoot nominals are singular, plural or general in number. The existence of languages with either a singular-plural opposition or a plural-general opposition is well-attested in the literature.
Elizabeth Ritter, Hotze Rullmann, Kyumin Kim, Martina Wiltschko   +3 more
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Spirituality as a Predictor of Well-Being, Mental Distress or Both: A Four-Week Follow-Up Study in a Sample of Dutch and Belgian Adults

Religions
In general, studies of spirituality show positive associations with measures of well-being, but less is known about the possible role of mental distress in this association. Following the two-continua model of mental health, the current quantitative four-
Thijs Huijs, Arjan W. Braam, Renske Kruizinga, Nele Jacobs, Jennifer Reijnders, Marianne Simons   +5 more
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Marquage du pluriel en créole guyanais et au-delà

Études Créoles, 2017
Based on synchronic and diachronic corpus data, this contribution provides a formal and functional study of the noun (phrase) marker ye la / ya(n) in Guianese French Creole, which has received only little attention up to now.
Evelyn Wiesinger
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Plural Reference and Reference to a Plurality

, 2016
There are two approaches to the semantics of plurals: reference to a plurality (sums, sets) and plural reference. The paper argues in favor of plural reference, mainly based on linguistic data.
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Correction: Huijs et al. (2024). Spirituality as a Predictor of Well-Being, Mental Distress or Both: A Four-Week Follow-Up Study in a Sample of Dutch and Belgian Adults. Religions 15: 179

Religions
In the original publication (Huijs et al [...]
Thijs Huijs, Arjan W. Braam, Renske Kruizinga, Nele Jacobs, Jennifer Reijnders, Marianne Simons   +5 more
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The category of Number in Basque: I. Synchronic and historical aspects [PDF]

Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 2009
This is the first half of an article in which all sectors of Basque morpho - logy with some overt opposition for grammatical number are synchronically and diachronically analyzed. This opposition presents different values across lexical categories: sg.
Mikel Martínez Areta
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The category of Number in Basque: II. Prehistorical and typological aspects [PDF]

Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 2009
In this second and last part of the article about the grammatical number in Basque, it is discussed what the state of affairs in prehistorical periods may have been like, taking historical data as a starting point. In Point 3, the different sectors of
Mikel Martínez Areta
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Sigmatic plurals in Romance varieties spoken in Italy and their interaction with -i plurals

LingBaW, 2018
In Sardinian, Friulian, Rhaeto-Romance, Occitan (not considered in this work) and Franco-Provençal varieties spoken in peripheral Italian areas, the -i inflection is not totally eradicated but interacts with plural -s.
Leonardo M. Savoia, Benedetta Baldi, M. Rita Manzini   +2 more
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