Worm-theoretic Persistence and Temporal Predication

A Relevance-theoretic Account of the Property Predication Restriction

As several linguists have pointed out, the occurrence of indefinite subject NPs (in initial or preverbal position) is more restricted than the occurrence of definite ones. There seems to be a widespread typological preference for definite preverbal subjects, and some languages (Arabic, for instance) even forbid the presence of preverbal indefinite subjects. Other languages (such as English or S...

Predication 1 Predication

Predication

Inter-temporal Accrual Persistence and Accrual Anomaly

Prior accounting research argues that diminishing marginal returns on new investments drive lower persistence of accruals relative to cash flows. Macroeconomic research documents that marginal profitability is counter-cyclical, which implies that diminishing marginal returns on new investments are more pronounced during periods of expansions than recessions. Linking the cyclicality of diminishi...

Truthmakers and Predication

To what extent do true predications correspond to truthmakers in virtue of which those predications are true? One sort of predicate which is often thought to not be susceptible to an ontological treatment is a predicate for instantiation, or some corresponding predication (trope-similarity or set-membership, for example). This paper discusses this question, and argues that an "ontological" appr...