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Theoretical Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/tl-2021-frontmatter3-4

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Shaking up counterfactuality: even closer to the linguistic facts 动摇反事实：更接近语言事实

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Theoretical Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/tl-2021-2026

Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Ellison Luk

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Justifying tense and mood morphology in counterfactuals 反事实中时态和语气形态的辨证

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Theoretical Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/tl-2021-2021

A. Grønn

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Taking a psychological view on another way to look at counterfactuals 用另一种心理学的观点来看待反事实

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Theoretical Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/tl-2021-2023

E. Kulakova

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Another way to look at counterfactuals 另一种看待反事实的方式

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Theoretical Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/tl-2021-2019

W. Klein

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Truthmaker-based content: syntactic, semantic, and ontological contexts 基于truthmaker的内容:句法、语义和本体论语境

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Theoretical Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/tl-2021-2012

Friederike Moltmann

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On doing theoretical linguistics 论做理论语言学

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Theoretical Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/tl-2021-2003

David Adger

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General linguistics must be based on universals (or non-conventional aspects of language) 一般语言学必须以语言的共性(或非常规方面)为基础。