Renvoyant aux possessions matérielles et immatérielles d’un groupe māori, le terme polysémique de taonga reste controversé. Il soulève problème la protection propriété culturelle intellectuelle autant que celui souveraineté des Māori sur leurs terres ressources, deux enjeux difficiles à concilier dans common law néo-zélandaise. Cet article en propose un double éclairage, axé mise œuvre du Trait...

Alienable possessive constructions in Biakic stand out with respect to the South Halmahera-West New Guinea language family which they belong. This article investigates origins of innovative alienable forms Biakic, constitutes an example grammaticalization from predicative attributive possession. It describes marking possession for each four languages, examining form markers, their position poss...

Legislative regulation, establishing the forms of relations between persons, in case non-compliance with proposed model behavior, provides for either application sanctions or qualification actual accordance established legal forms. In latter case, signs that may have nothing to do reality are often imputed such relationships. Thus, example, author proposes consider a group persons as collective...

0. Introduction Previous analyses of the use of English definite descriptions have generally taken one of two approaches, loosely characterizable as familiarity and uniqueness. That is, felicitous use of the definite article has been argued to require that the referent of the NP be either known to the hearer within the current context of utterance (e.g. Heim 1983, Prince 1992) or uniquely ident...

Fodor offers a novel argument against Bare-bones Concept Pragmatism (BCP). He alleges that there are two circularities in BCP’s account of concept possession: a circularity in explaining concept possession in terms of the capacity to sort; and a circularity in explaining concept possession in terms of the capacity to draw inferences. We argue that neither of these circles is real.

OBJECTIVES We investigated the possible relationship between being shot in an assault and possession of a gun at the time. METHODS We enrolled 677 case participants that had been shot in an assault and 684 population-based control participants within Philadelphia, PA, from 2003 to 2006. We adjusted odds ratios for confounding variables. RESULTS After adjustment, individuals in possession of...

Magic is “a concept used to describe a mode of rationality or way of thinking that looks to invisible forces to influence events, effect change in material conditions, or present the illusion of change” (Encyclopedia Britannica s.v. magic). “Magic and sorcery are the influencing of events, objects, people, and physical phenomena by mystical, paranormal or supernatural means. The terms can also ...