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Chapter Udug
(2014)
Assyriology; Mesopotamia; Ancient Near East
Chapter 2 The Trans New Guinea family
(2017)
The island of New Guinea is a region of spectacular, deep linguistic diversity.1It contains roughly 850 languages, which on present evidence fall into at least 18 language families that are not demonstrably related, along ...
Chapter Contacts between indigenous languages in South America
(2012)
This chapter I will try to describe a few aspects of language contact in the history of the languages of the American Indian communities of South America. The topic ofcontacts between the indigenous languages in South ...
Chapter Subsidiarity to the Rescue for the European Courts?
(2016)
Contemporary esearch on federalism is rarely concerned with its philosophical foundations. However, arguments on why and how best to organise a plurality of states in a multilevel political order have first been discussed ...
Chapter Catastrophes, the Imaginary and Citizenship
(2015)
This article reflects on the relationship between the media and the construction of publics, taking these to be based on identities and the processes of creating identities activated in concrete, well-defined contexts. ...
Chapter Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and Relativism
(2016)
One important strand in the contemporary debate over epistemological relativism focuses on the question whether, and to what extent, Wittgenstein in “On Certainty” (1969) leaned towards this position. This paper is a ...
Chapter Ruth Barcan Marcus on Believing Without a Language
(2015)
This paper surveys Ruth Marcus’ many contributions to modal logic and its interpretation, starting with her pioneer work on quantified modal logic and ending with the controversies concerning the origin of the idea of rigid ...
Chapter 14 Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies
(2016)
This chapter will begin by discussing the implicational verb hierarchy of Tsunoda (1985) as a convenient starting point for looking at what happens when are latively large dataset and a principled, quantitative approach ...
Chapter When Paul Met Ludwig
(2017)
This paper tries to make plausible the following claims: The paragraphs §608–612 of “On Certainty” do not speak in favour of what Boghossian construes as the Master Argument for Relativism; that “On Certainty” introduces ...
Chapter Sakralisierung von Zeit in Rom und Italien
(2012)
The meaning of holiness and how one can speak about it remains an active research question in religious studies and theology. The articles analyze discourses about holiness from the religious cultures of late antiquity. ...