namely, that we cannot arrive at a new understanding through our current thinking (much as Einstein pointed out in his famous quote) but rather that we have to be blocked in order to make an asymmetric
In short, both these examples—subconscious biases in the viewing of inanimate objects according to their grammatical gender, and the association of opera with Italian—illustrate well the extent to which languages aren’t in fact entirely fungible. No, there’s no constraint on Spanish speakers us...
You are buffeted between these huge melodic riffs but just as you’re about to become lost, the synths drop out and you’re left standing on a tightly coiled beat. After a few moments to breathe, you’re then thrown back out again into the tempest. And all you want is for it to l...
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Imperfective aspect, which corresponds to Reichenbach's notion of 'extended tense', refers to homogeneous eventualities, i.e., states, and can be further broken down into habitual and continuous aspect (Comrie 1976). The imperfect in Spanish thus marks past tense as well as imperfective aspect....