This study aims to document the variation of a minor imperative construction in five varieties Spanish and four discursive genres, represent this by proposing constructional network that recognizes different degrees abstraction form schemas subschemas. Our data comes from (Argentinian, Caribbean, Chilean, Mexican Peninsular) genres: two spoken (conversations interviews) written (novels news rep...

“Borrowing” is a lingual process that is studied in diachronic linguistics. In this process a language borrows elements from another language. This process usually occurs in areas that two languages make contact with each other. In a dialect spoken in South Khorasan the language borrowing happens. Arabs living in this part of Iran probably have immigrated in the early centuries of Islam. In thi...

Much attention has been paid to how digital technologies affect peacebuilding through the production of information, data and evidence. While research thus documented enable a sincere approach concerned with hurtful past present world ‘really’ is, can also play role in enabling subjunctive sensitivity for future worlds that ‘could’ or ‘should’ be. The article explores peacebuilding, subjunctivi...

This paper contrasts two metaphysical accounts of modality and properties: Modal Realism which treats possible entities as primitive; and Strong Dispositionalism in which metaphysical possibility and necessity are determined by actually existing dispositions or powers. I argue that Strong Dispositionalism loses its initial advantages of simplicity and parsimony over Modal Realism as it is exten...

A striking feature of the traditional armchair method of philosophy is the use of imaginary examples: for instance, of Gettier cases as counterexamples to the justified true belief analysis of knowledge. The use of such examples is often thought to involve some sort of a priori rational intuition, which crude rationalists regard as a virtue and crude empiricists as a vice. It is argued here tha...