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Aristotle on unity in Metaphysics Z.12 and H.6
Ratio, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 243-259, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Aristotle's inquiry into the definitional question “what is substance?” in the central books of the Metaphysics is constrained by the unity requirement. Roughly, a particular hylomorphic compound substance, such as this human, ought to be a unified whole and not just a heap of material parts and form.
Michail Peramatzis
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On the properties of Emai's khi copula construction
Studies in African Linguistics, 2003 This paper examines the equational identity (El) construction in Nigeria's Edoid language Emai. It weighs this construction's grammatical properties against a complex of equational identity patterns developed in the crosslinguistic investigations of ...
Ronald P. Schaefer, Francis O. Egbokhare
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Agree and the subjects of specificational clauses
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 251-279, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article investigates agreement in Persian sentences with a specificational copular clause embedded under the epistemic modal tavānestan ‘can’. We argue that this structure is a raising structure. It exhibits agreement on both the embedded and modal verbs.
Susana Bejar, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
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Pragmatic enrichment, issues and domain goals
Mind &Language, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 669-692, June 2023., 2023 In this article, I propose an inquisitive approach to semantic underdetermination using the model of issue resolution to describe how occasion meanings are determined in the process of pragmatic enrichment. I appeal to “Travis cases” to motivate the account of semantic underdetermination based on alternative ways for some object a to be F.
Tamara Dobler
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Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 552-590, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Constructionist approaches to language have often viewed metaphors and metonymies either as motivating factors or constraints on lexical‐constructional integration (Goldberg 1995, 2006; the Lexical‐Constructional Model: Butler & Gonzálvez 2014, Gonzálvez 2020, Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal 2008, Ruiz de Mendoza & Galera 2014).
Beatriz Martín‐Gascón
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Predicative Possessives, Relational Nouns, and Floating Quantifiers [PDF]
Linguistic Inquiry, 2019 Green (1971) notes the apparent unacceptability of certain quantificational expressions as possessors of singular head nouns. We provide data from a range of English dialects to show that such constructions are not straightforwardly unacceptable, but there are a number of restrictions on their use.
Tsoulas, George, Woods, Rebecca Louise
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The Status of De in Romance Indefinites, Partitives and Pseudopartitives*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 167-211, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper focuses on the status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and pseudopartitives. It argues that there is neither a ‘partitive article’ nor a ‘partitive preposition’ in syntax. De in Romance indefinites is the overt Spell‐Out of an abstract operator de that cancels the definiteness of articles and is responsible for ...
M.Teresa Espinal, Sonia Cyrino
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Generics and the metaphysics of kinds
Philosophy Compass, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2021., 2021 Abstract Recent years have seen renewed interest in the semantics of generics. And a relatively mainstream view in this work is that the semantics of generics must appeal to kinds. But what are kinds? Can we learn anything about their nature by looking at how semantic theories of generics appeal to them?
David Liebesman +1 more
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Existe-t-il des « noms nus » en latin ?
Pallas, 2016 Since in Latin all noun phrases lack articles and therefore can be called “bare nominals”, my aim is to investigate whether Latin displays the same semantic properties as the ones appearing in the opposition between “bare noun phrases” and noun phrases ...
Bernard Bortolussi
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A syntax for semantic incorporation: generating low-scope indefinite objects in Inuktitut
Glossa, 2019 The range of scope readings for Inuktitut nominal expressions appears superficially to depend on the verbal morpho-syntax, with noun incorporation and antipassive inflection both playing a role. A new model is presented in which the syntactic role played
Douglas Wharram, Phil Branigan
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