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On the Semantics and the Ontology of the Mass‐Count Distinction

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The mass‐count distinction is a morpho‐syntactic distinction among nouns in English and many other languages. Tree, chair, person, group, and portion are count nouns, which come with the plural and accept numerals such as one and first; water, rice, furniture, silverware, and law enforcement are mass nouns, which lack the plural and do not ...
Friederike Moltmann
wiley   +1 more source

Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

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Critical Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 4-42, April 2026.
Francesca Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

Fair or Foul? Interrogating the Role of Baseball Knowledge in Studies of Knowledge and Comprehension

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
Abstract Although links between knowledge and reading comprehension have been widely documented for decades, recent translational science publications (e.g., teacher journals, books, and podcasts) have increasingly referred to studies using baseball (a sport popular in the USA) as a proxy for knowledge to explain those links, especially within science ...
Dan Reynolds   +2 more
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A Bathroom of One's Own: Intimacies of Austerity and Austerities of Intimacy in Barbara Pym's Fiction

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Critical Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 82-102, April 2026.
Charlotte Charteris
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Metaphors of Sin and Disability in Augustine's Anti‐Pelagian Writings

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 3-20, January 2025.
Abstract This article examines Augustine's use of theological metaphor in his anti‐Pelagian writings. Drawing on disability studies in theology and literary theory, it explores how Augustine uses metaphors of disability to provide a material anchor for his concept of sin in Nature and Grace and The Grace of Christ and Original Sin. However, the article
Tanya Kundu
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational Alignment With Artificial Intelligence in Context

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 89-102, December 2024.
ABSTRACT The development of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents based on large language models raises important questions about the relationship between human norms, values, and practices and AI design and performance. This article explores what it means for AI agents to be conversationally aligned to human communicative ...
Rachel Katharine Sterken   +1 more
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Pure Event Semantics

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 54-88, December 2024.
ABSTRACT In a pure event semantics for natural language, the domain of quantification and predication is limited to events and states. I offer pure event semantic analyses of several phenomena, some of which have not been treated before in formal semantics. In the pure event semantics sketched in the second section, nouns are state predicates, and this
Roger Schwarzschild
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals

open access: yesSyntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.
Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
wiley   +1 more source

On the Reflexive KENDİ in Turkish Sign Language. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol, 2022
Kayabaşı D, Abner N.
europepmc   +1 more source

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