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Inquiry and Logical Form

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
wiley   +1 more source

FIRST PERSON JUDGMENTS AND THEIR PRAGMATIC LOAD IN THE REACTIVE REPLICAS OF THE POLITICIAN INTERVIEWED [PDF]

open access: yesАктуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2017
In our article we state that in interviews politicians use the first person pronoun for representing their «I», relate this pronoun with personal coverage of their images in the positive light.
Borisenko Viktoriya A.
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Translating the field

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey
Borut Telban, Ute Eickelkamp
wiley   +1 more source

Restrictive Relative Clauses in Maltese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper provides a descriptive overview of restrictive relative clauses (henceforth RRCs) in Maltese, a construction which has received little atten- tion to date and which is poorly described in existing grammars.
Camilleri, M, Sadler, L
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(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
wiley   +1 more source

Two Case Studies on Translating Pronouns in a Deep Syntax Framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We focus on improving the translation of the English pronoun it and English reflexive pronouns in an English-Czech syntax-based machine translation framework.
Nedoluzhko, Anna   +2 more
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
wiley   +1 more source

Middle voice marking in Tibeto-Burman [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Middle voice marking is very rarely recognized as such in the grammars written on Tibeto-Burman languages. It is often simply treated as a normal direct reflexive or as an intransitivizer.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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“I'm Not Here to Teach You How to Be Gay:” LGBTQ+ Client Experiences of Othering in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy

open access: yesJournal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite the increasing emphasis on addressing the intersections of client and therapist identity to improve therapeutic outcomes, therapy clients holding marginalized identities continue to experience othering. Othering is a process that engenders marginalization and inequality based on preconceived group identity, involves the hegemonic ...
Caitlin Edwards   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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