Abstract Fundamentally, meaning is organized along two dimensions, similarity and contiguity, corresponding to areas of the brain primarily responsible for language processing, Wernicke’s area Broca’s area, respectively. Modern culture has tended overemphasize dimension through money/commodification in capitalism, mathematics science, with disastrous ecological consequences. Ecostylistics can c...

I argue that patterns of case syncretism across languages can be modelled by partially, rather than totally, ordered hierarchies. Partially hierarchies avoid the need for postulating multiple instances same while retaining contiguity in representation syncretism. discuss data from three which differential object marking is syncretic with dative and show partially capture these other line some c...

We estimate the impact of Cap-and-Trade Program (CATP) in California on regional greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth. Our preferred identification strategies, based spatial distance county-level contiguity, fail to provide evidence a reduction or growth due CATP. Multi-state organisations do not transfer non-Californian facilities, but parent-level concentration changes, consistent wit...