In this paper we argue for a slightly modified conception of phonological representations along the lines of Government Phonology. Releasing C and V from their traditional, phonetically oriented connotations as consonants and vowels and promoting them into abstract phonological primitives, we show that phonological elements, melodic expressions and phonological structure can be viewed in a unfi...

Universally used decimal representations, such as 5; 200; 856763; 189200000 are rendered (written, pronounced) differently in different languages. The number 5 is tllus five in English, fern in Swedish, cinq in French, ketsmala in Koyukon, biyar in Hausa and nga: in Burmese. Numbers can furthermore be written differently in different mathematical systems. The number 5 is written V in the Roman ...

Quebec's struggle between francophones and anglophones has deeply affected other immigrant communities' identitarian practices. Within Montreal's eighties and nineties nationalist environment some Italo-Quebecois worked as a bridge between the two groups through the transcultural magazine Vice Versa. The article presents some findings from a case study that looks at how Vice Versa challenged do...

It has been recently argued that knowledge is the norm of practical reasoning. A way of formulating this norm is the following bi-conditional: it is rational to treat p as a reason for acting if and only if you know that p. In my talk, I provide three new counterexamples to this claim. I show cases of rational action: i) motivated by imagining, ii) grounded in acceptance, and iii) performed in ...