In the ongoing philosophical debate over the origins and nature of lexical concepts stemming from the work of Fodor (1970, 1998, 2000, 2008), the potential of first language acquisition studies as a source of evidence has been somewhat overlooked. At the lexical interface with syntax, a restricted set of lexical conceptual elements can be shown to play a pivotal role in the generation of syntac...

Psychological research on beliefs, values, worldview, and ideology has been limited by inadequate structural models to organize the plethora of constructs. The present studies investigate the potential of a dimensional model based on lexical, dictionary-represented -ism concepts to form an organizing structural model. Four isms factors found previously in college samples are shown to replicate ...

Unsupervised Data-Oriented Parsing models (U-DOP) represent a class of structure bootstrapping models that have achieved some of the best unsupervised parsing results in the literature. While U-DOP was originally proposed as an engineering approach to language learning (Bod 2005, 2006a), it turns out that the model has a number of properties that may also be of linguistic and cognitive interest...

This article proposes a number of models to examine through which mechanisms a population of autonomous agents could arrive at a repertoire of perceptually grounded categories that is sufficiently shared to allow successful communication. The models are inspired by the main approaches to human categorisation being discussed in the literature: nativism, empiricism, and culturalism. Colour is tak...

It has long been known that the West and Russia have a different approach to international relations. However, whether this also extends attitude towards law was not so widely known. As Lauri Mälksoo proves in his book on Russian law, although attempts made westernise developed its own understanding of over centuries. The efforts pro-Western modernisers proved ineffective. Soviet period particu...

The European Union’s common public sphere project dates back to the 1960s and relies on Europeanisation through gradual eradication of communication boundaries between its member countries. However, it is evident by now that national spheres hard achieve increasing overlaps spheres, synchronisation news reporting across boundaries, or diffusion Europeanist norms into politics. may hence be in d...

In 2019, for the first time in Portugal, a populist radical right party (PRR) made it to parliament. Since then voting intentions Chega (Enough) have grown with leader finishing third 2021 presidential race. This article provides an empirical-based account of party’s agenda and ideological profile. It asks what extent shares core characteristics PRR family, i.e. nativism, populism authoritarian...

Abstract In his discussion of Roman wind-names, Seneca the Younger employs a striking metaphor to describe integration name south-east wind, Eurus, into Latin. The says, has been ‘granted citizenship’. This is one six instances ‘granting citizenship words’ in surviving ancient texts. this article, I use as an entry-point reconsider importance and language conceptions identity status. revelatory...