This paper offers an empirical examination of topicalization in contemporary Hebrew literature. A corpus chosen to reflect contemporary Hebrew prose was examined for topicalization, and the structures ...

Evidentiality and modality are interrelated linguistic phenomena that shape the way speakers encode and communicate their sources of knowledge and their degree of commitment to a proposition.

Diminutives are rarely used in the Estonian language and only in specific conversational contexts, such as giving negative evaluations, conveying uncomfortable information and uncertainty, or in ...

This article appears in the August 2024 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. The most distinctively American contribution to the world’s philosophical tradition is pragmatism.