La scalarité: autant de moyens d'expression, autant d'effets de sens - introduction [PDF]
, 2007 B
Hadermann, Pascale +2 more
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Equative constructions in world-wide perspective [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, we report on a world-wide study of equative constructions (‘A is as big as B’) in a convenience sample of 119 languages. From earlier work, it has been known that European languages often have equative constructions based on adverbial ...
Haspelmath, Martin +1 more
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Plastic wastes to construction products: Status, limitations and future perspective
Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2020 Plastic waste is becoming extremely threatening to the environment due to their high quantities generated which pose serious harm to both the environment and its inhabitants. A major victim of this menace is the marine environment.
P. Awoyera, A. Adesina
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The Lord of Limits: On Trinitarian Ontology and the Tragic
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 658-683, October 2025.Abstract The essay focuses on a dimension of the trinitarian metaphysics of Rowan Williams. It aims to articulate his understanding of the ontological implications of the Trinity, particularly in relation to his theological leitmotif of the tragic, and has a reparative focus of easing some of the tensions that may arise in such relating.
Khegan M. Delport
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Metaphor and Metaphilosophy: Wittgenstein, MacDonald, and Conceptual Metaphor Theory
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 1038-1053, September 2025.Abstract The discipline of philosophy has been critiqued from both within and outside itself. One brand of external critique is associated with Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the view that human cognition is partially structured by pervasive and automatic mappings between conceptual domains.
Cameron C. Yetman
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Vagueness expressions in Italian, Spanish and English task-oriented dialogues [PDF]
, 2017 In this article, we present a corpus-based analysis on the use of Vagueness Expressions (VEs) in Italian, Spanish and English in Task-oriented Dialogues. Following the distinction among informational, relational and discourse vagueness (Voghera 2012), we
Borges, Carla, Voghera, Miriam
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Rethinking responsibility: An Abhidharma Buddhist view
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 2, Page 549-570, September 2025.Abstract If reductionism about personal identity is true, “no one ever deserves to be punished for anything they did.” I call this the Responsible Agency Challenge. This paper addresses the question: How should we respond to this challenge? My response is inspired by the famous fifth century Buddhist Abhidharma philosopher, Vasubandhu, and the ...
Monima Chadha
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Mood and Modality in Beja [PDF]
, 2013 version avant révisionTwo intriguing, and crosslinguistically unfrequent, formal means for the expression of modality are discussed in this paper: (i) the cliticization of a nominal copula to finite verb forms, and (ii) the cliticization of a special set
Vanhove, Martine
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From sentence negation to connective : old Lithuanian nei(gi) ‘and not; nor; than; before’ [PDF]
, 2014 This paper aims to show the sources of the Lithuanian conjunction nei(gi) ‘than’ and its later development. The most archaic function of nei that can be found in Old Lithuanian texts is nei ‘and not’ as a type of sentence negation in a clause following ...
Ostrowski, Norbert
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Morpho-Phonetic Effects in Speech Production: Modeling the Acoustic Duration of English Derived Words With Linear Discriminative Learning. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Stein SD, Plag I.
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