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	Pleonasm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some pleonastic phrases are part of a language's idiom, like "safe haven" and "tuna fish" in English.
		Pleonastic phrases like "off of" are common in spoken or informal written English, such as when used in a phrase like "keep the cat off of the couch".
		This same pleonastic style remains very common in modern poetry and songwriting, for example: "Anne, with her father / is out in the boat / riding the water / riding the waves / on the sea", from Peter Gabriel's "Mercy Street".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pleonasm (3002 words)

	Alan Musgrave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Throughout his career he has defended scientific realism and scientific rationalism, and it often considered their chief contemporary defender.
		Metaphysically speaking, Musgrave can be considered a nominalist; he argues for a position he specifically calls Pleonastic Platonism.
		Pleonastic is a term with greek roots meaning "excessive".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Musgrave (772 words)

	Universality of grammar and grammatical universals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This new pleonastic usage is by no means obvious, and if we explain the development of an old tense by the fact that old auxiliary signs were simply necessary when, for example, there were not enough adverbs of time yet (e.g.
		That is why the pleonastic or redundant usage exists right from the beginning: the morpheme was not placed in a context to give it a new signification but, conversely, it was interpreted within the context.
		Such purely pleonastic markings are by no means to be removed in any case, but they can be preserved for a very long time, as is shown by many languages.
	www.phil.uni-erlangen.de /~p2gerlw/ressourc/dauses3.html (6431 words)

	Proverbs in Pleonastic Language
		Common proverbs have been recast in rather pleonastic language (do you know what pleonastic means?).
		A research team proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact size of which was unspecified.
		One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure; subsequently the second member of the team performed a self rotational translation oriented in the same direction taken by the first team member.
	www.geocities.com /vasudevanvrv/pleonast.htm (634 words)

	Stephen Schiffer - The Things We Mean - Reviewed by Peter Pagin, Stockholm University - Philosophical Reviews - ...
		The idea of pleonastic entities is motivated to a great extent by the assumption that we can have them with no or very small metaphysical costs.
		A pleonastic entity is an entity that falls under a pleonastic concept; and a pleonastic concept is the concept of an F that implies true so-called something-from-nothing-F-entailment claims (p 57).
		This means in particular that pleonastic propositions are individuated according to their role in attitude attributions, given our intuitive truth value distributions over such attributions (e.g.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=3181 (4917 words)

	Oxford Scholarship Online: The Things We Mean
		The book is about what these propositions are in themselves, and about their place in nature, language, and thought.
		Chapters 1 and 2 advance the theory of pleonastic propositions, and of pleonastic entities generally.
		The remaining six chapters bring that theory to bear on issues in the theory of content: the existence and nature of meanings; knowledge of meaning; the relation between content-involving facts and underlying physical facts; vagueness and indeterminacy; conditionals; normative discourse; and the role of pleonastic propositions in explanation, prediction, and knowledge acquisition.
	www.oxfordscholarship.com /oso/public/content/philosophy/0199257760/toc.html (185 words)

	Footnotes
		Hobbs proposed the use of semantic information using selectional restrictions as a straightforward extension of his method in order to improve the obtained results in anaphora resolution.
		In order to detect pleonastic it pronouns in AGIR, a set of rules, based on pattern recognition, that allow for the identification of this type of pronoun is constructed.
		In the detection of pleonastic it pronouns a 88.7% P (568 out of 640) was obtained.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/jair/pub/volume18/peral03a-html/footnode.html (908 words)

	What Mother Never Heard About Daylily Catalogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I call it a "pleonastic oxymoron" —; a phrase that wraps a redundance around a contradiction.
		The opposite of this term is an oxymoron which, in pleonastic terms, is a "cataclysmic catastrophe" known as the "unregistered introduction" or "named seedling".
		If a contradiction fails to hold true under certain pleonastic circumstances, it is really a semi-oxymoron.
	home.earthlink.net /~kernels/MOTHER3.html (985 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		I have been trying to find a distinct difference between the two words "pleonastic" and "tautological," but everything I have seen blurs the line.
		Examples are some of the doublets we've discussed on the page, such as kit and caboodle and without let or hindrance.
		In this cases the tautologous word has the same meaning as a previous word; in the pleonastic examples, the unnecessary word conveys the same meaning but is not actually synonymous with the previous word.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19990120 (452 words)

	Kivimaa (1967) The pleonastic that in relative and interrogative constructions in Chaucer's verse
		Kivimaa (1967) The pleonastic that in relative and interrogative constructions in Chaucer's verse
		The pleonastic that in relative and interrogative constructions in Chaucer's verse
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	www.getcited.org /?PUB=101758974&showStat=Ratings (99 words)

	LINGUIST List 3.846: Ne Pleonastique
		In addition to `si jamais' (`just in case'), which is idiomatic, I think constructions like `le plus beau village que j'ai jamais vu' (`the most beautiful town I've ever seen) are quite common, unlike those with expletive `ne'.
		Ellen Prince points out that "pleonastic negation" occurs in (what I call) parametric concessive conditional clauses in Yiddish: Es iz mir gut vu ikh zol nit zayn.
		In a recent talk on the typology of concessive conditional clauses by Ekkehard Koenig and myself, we speculate that there might be a connection between pleonastic negation in concessive conditionals and negation in exclamative clauses, e.g.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/3/3-846.html (784 words)

	iFlipFlop: Word of the Day Blogging: Pleonastic
		Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
		Pleonastic: Using or containing an excessive number of words: diffuse, long-winded, periphrastic, prolix, redundant, verbose, wordy.
		Sent to iFlipFlop by the WordMensch from 48Facets.
	www.iflipflop.com /2006/01/word-of-day-blogging-pleonastic.html (75 words)

	Subjunctive (Subjonctif)
		Both of these expressions, when followed by que require the subjunctive and, when desired, the pleonastic 'ne'.
		The "ne" in parentheses is referred to as the pleonastic ne.
		The pleonastic ne can also be used with this conjunction.
	www.orbilat.com /Languages/French/Grammar/Syntax/Moods/French-Syntax-Moods-Subjunctive.html (2073 words)

	OUP: UK General Catalogue
		Schiffer argues that there are such things as the things we mean and believe.
		They are what he calls pleonastic propositions, and he provides an account of what they are in themselves and of their place in nature, language and thought.
		After developing the theory of pleonastic propositions, Schiffer uses it to provide accounts of (among other things) linguistic meaning and knowledge of meaning, the relation between intentional and non-intentional facts, vagueness and indeterminacy, moral discourse, conditionals, and the role of propositional content in information acquisition and explanation.
	www.oup.com /uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199257768 (471 words)

	-yourDictionary.com - Word of the Day
		"Pleonastic" is the adjective form and "pleonastically" is the adverb.
		Suggested Usage: The Department of Redundancy Department specializes in pleonastic constructions, of course.
		Become pleonastically aware and take steps to wipe out pleonasms.
	www.yourdictionary.com /wotd/wotd.pl?word=pleonasm (278 words)

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	Record Of Lodoss War: Chronicles Of The Heroic Knight Review Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sprawling, vibrant adaption follows the persisting saga of a young knight, and the ever-presently disequilibrated land of turmoil.
		It's pleonastic style action, character-driven narrative & unremitting drama pleases ardents of the original OAV.
		A must see for fantasy buffs in store for a cleverly executed, enchantment laden extravaganza.
	www.angelfire.com /anime4/anime45/rolwtv.html (59 words)

	LINGUIST List 3.836: Ne Pleonastique and Polarity Items
		Message 2: Re: 3.830 Pleonastic Ne Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 14:14:36 ESRe: 3.830 Pleonastic Ne From: "Ellen F. Prince"
		Subject: Re: 3.830 Pleonastic Ne just in case people think that pleonastic negation is limited to french and possibly english, i'd like to point out that it certainly occurs in yiddish, and definitely not only in 'careful' speech.
		as for the note about modality, all the examples of pleonastic negation in my yiddish corpus have _zoln_ 'shall' as the inflected verb, which is the verb that does the work of the subjunctive mood in yiddish.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/3/3-836.html (614 words)

	The Magickal Review: Poetry and Prose
		The Haunted and the Haunters: Or, The House and the Brain, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
		Perverse and pretentious persons pronounce him pompous and prolix, yet this pioneer's pristine prose is precise, and neither purple nor pleonastic.
		See a profile of this imaginative individual in The Lost Club Journal.
	themagickalreview.org /poetry (81 words)

	Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This paper is a critical discussion of Schiffer's new book The Things we Mean, and part of a sympossium on this book.
		I in particular disucss the relation between Schiffer's new pleonastic theory and his older no-reference theory.
		I focus on his discussion of substitution failure of that-clauses (I fear that p vs. I fear the proposition that p), and on the question whether non-existent objects might be pleonastic entities, and whether pleonastic entities might be non-existent objects.
	www.unc.edu /~hofweber/papers (1771 words)

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		it is as pleonastic as what is called a pleonastic "non-negating negative" (french: "j'attends qu'il ne vienne" (i'm waiting till he comes"--the "ne" is no negation" (yiddish has a similar usage) in regard to case endings yiddish employs some pleonasms, e.g.
		should we call the english plural in this usage "pleonastic" since it's unnecessary but required?
		my point is that the concept of "pleonastic" is buried deep within the gestalt of any language and may not even feel tautological.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/languages/yiddish/mendele/vol6.134 (864 words)

	COUNT THE SUPERFLUOUS REDUNDANT PLEONASTIC TAUTOLOGIES
		Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 3:00 pm Post subject: Re: COUNT THE SUPERFLUOUS REDUNDANT PLEONASTIC TAUTOLOGIES
		My count came to 30 after a quick read, but I'd bet my
		Had my students do it -- 44 -- with some disagreements.
	www.vocaboly.com /forums/post-90251.html (398 words)

	JavaRAP Readme
		JavaRAP is an implementation of the classic Resolution of Anaphora Procedure (RAP) given by
		It resolves third person pronouns, lexical anaphors, and identifies pleonastic pronouns.
		The original purpose of the implementation is to provide anaphora resolution result to our
	www.comp.nus.edu.sg /~qiul/NLPTools/JavaRAP.html (485 words)

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