Recent pragmatic accounts of slurs argue that the offensiveness is generated by a speaker's free choice to use slur opposed more appropriate and semantically equivalent neutral counterpart. I theoretical role counterparts on such views overstated. consider two recent analyses, Bolinger (Noûs, 51, 2017, 439) Nunberg (New work speech acts, Oxford University Press, 2018), which rely heavily upon o...

Abstract Thick and highly viscous roots are the key to cratonic survival. Nevertheless, can be destroyed under certain geological scenarios. Eruption of mantle plumes underneath cratons reduce root viscosity thus make them more prone deformation by convection. It has been proposed that Indian craton could have thinned due eruption Réunion plume it at ca. 65 Ma. In this study, we constructed sph...