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Counterfactuals, hyperintensionality and Hurford disjunctions
This paper investigates propositional hyperintensionality in counterfactuals. It starts with a scenario describing two children playing on a seesaw...
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Data-driven dependency parsing of Vedic Sanskrit
This paper describes the first data-driven parser for Vedic Sanskrit, an ancient Indo-Aryan language in which a corpus of important religious and...
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Cross-Cultural Scenarios
This volume discussed aspects of international (and intercultural) workplaces relating to communication, leadership and trust. This chapter brings...
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Analyzing Creativity in Children’s Picture Books
The purpose of this study was to examine creativity in children’s books in terms of problem solving, divergent thinking, curiosity, and growth...
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Evaluation of a rule-based approach to automatic factual question generation using syntactic and semantic analysis
We present a rule-based approach to automatic factual question generation implemented in the Adaptive Courseware and Natural Language Tutor, a...
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Explaining Language Change
In this chapter, we address two big questions in historical linguistics: How does language change start, and how does it spread through the...
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The Struggle Against Hegemonic Femininity: The Narrative of a Japanese Actress
This chapter investigates the interview narrative of a Japanese actress. Her reflections on her professional and private life demonstrates the...
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“I got confused when they said ‘you’re a girl’”: Trans Men’s Life Histories and the Regulation of Gender
In this chapter, we analyse autobiographical narratives written by young transgender men who were patients at a British gender identity clinic. The...
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To Make You Hear, Make You Feel, Make You See: Representing Sense-Perceptions in Narrative Fiction
Sense-perception of the world around us is foundational to our making sense of that world. Sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell are not our only...
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Transparent quantification into hyperpropositional attitudes de dicto
We prove how to validly quantify into hyperpropositional contexts de dicto in Transparent Intensional Logic. Hyperpropositions are sentential...
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Staging Religious Toleration: Pierre Corneille’s Polyeucte martyr (1643)
This article explores French neoclassical tragedian Pierre Corneille’s Polyeucte martyr (1643) as a theoretical reflection on religious toleration....
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Valuation in Reviews
This chapter uses the Appraisal category of Valuation to explore non-aesthetic appreciation in the reviews. For this purpose, seven subcategories are...
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Numbers and Cardinalities: What’s Really Wrong with the Easy Argument for Numbers?
This paper investigates a certain puzzling argument concerning number expressions and their meanings, the Easy Argument for Numbers. After finding...
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The Facilitating Role of English as a Reference Language for the Awakening of Young Students to Linguistic Diversity
During the last decade, migrant and refugee flows toward Greece have contributed to the formation of a multilingual and multicultural mosaic within...
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Effects of working memory and visual search skill on Chinese reading comprehension: examining the simple view of reading
To investigate the longitudinal effects of two domain-general cognitive abilities, namely verbal working memory and visual search skill, on Chinese...
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Arbobanko - A Treebank for Esperanto
In this paper we describe and evaluate Arbobanko, a syntactic treebank for the artificial language Esperanto, as well as methods and tools used to...
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Spelling errors by Spanish children when writing in English as a foreign language
English orthography differs from that of other European languages in terms of complexity and regularity. This difference may impact the development...
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From the Reflexive to the Middle Construction: What is ‘In-Between’? a Comparison Between English and Italian
This chapter aims to provide an initial cross-linguistic and cognitively oriented analysis of aspectual verbs in English and Italian. The focus is on...
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Children’s Literature: Exploring Intertextual Relationships
Texts carry traces of the language, social and cultural characteristics of both the period in which they were written and the period before them....
