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6. Modal Empiricism Made Difficult: An Essay in the Meta-Epistemology of Modality
Sammanfattning : Philosophers have always taken an interest not only in what is actually the case, but in what is necessarily the case and what could possibly be the case. These are questions of modality. Epistemologists of modality enquire into how we can know what is necessary and what is possible. This dissertation concerns the meta-epistemology of modality. LÄS MER
7. Evidencialidad indirecta en aimara y en el español de La Paz : Un estudio semántico-pragmático de textos orales
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the expression of the indirect evidential subdomain in two languages in contact, i.e. the northern variety of Central Aymara and the variety of Spanish spoken in La Paz (Bolivia).For this aim, the study uses first-hand data collected in La Paz and El Alto (Bolivia) during 2014 and 2015. LÄS MER
8. Kripke on Necessity : A Metaphysical Investigation
Sammanfattning : I undertake a metaphysical investigation of Saul Kripke's modern classic, Naming and Necessity (1980). The general problem of my study may be expressed as follows: What is the metaphysical justification of the validity and existence of the pertinent classes of truths, the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori, according to the Kripke Paradigm? My approach is meant to disclose the logical and ontological principles underlying Kripke's arguments for the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori respectively. LÄS MER
9. Verbal Meaning: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Framework for Interpretive Categories of the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System as Elaborated in the Book of Ruth
Sammanfattning : The verbal system of Biblical Hebrew has intrigued the minds of exegetes, linguists, theologians, and translators for centuries. With regard to the verbal system, Biblical Hebrew is radically different from Modern Hebrew. Furthermore, it doesn't fit the traditional structure of grammar modelled on Latin. LÄS MER
10. Evidentiality in Tajik
Sammanfattning : The focus of this study is evidentiality—the grammatical marking of information source—in written and spoken Tajik. For marking evidential statements, Tajik employs a secondary register of verb forms (called register II forms) that all end in -a: the Perfect and the Perfectoids (the Perfectoid Imperfect and Perfectoid Pluperfect). LÄS MER