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By way of or in the manner of a device that allows material to be sorted and retrieved, usually alphabetically.

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  • Yet at the same time, as its label suggests, verb agreement in sign languages follows the same syntactic restrictions as in spoken languages: in all languages, verbs may agree...
  • Choosing series, in which "players" take turns indexically indicating their selection of one of three possible parallel linelike vegetables - carrots, beans, rhubarb, etc.
  • ˜I,™ ˜here,™ ˜now™) reference has led some (Kaplan 1979, Perry 1977) to maintain that the content of our states of mind cannot always be constituted by Fregean senses but must...
  • (other than indexically ” e.g.,
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