Studying the sociolinguistic dimension of overabundance and defectivity; more specifically, what role do language authorities (or the lack of them) have in the emergence, preservation or restriction ...

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 44, No. 3/4 (June–August 2014), pp. 324-342 (19 pages) It has recently been argued (for instance by Sanford Goldberg, expanding on earlier work by Tyler Burge) ...

Can there be a non-reductivist, source-based explanation of the use of normative language in statements describing the law and legal situations? This problem was formulated by Joseph Raz, who also ...

Since gaining power in August 2021, the Afghan Taliban, following a unique normative mixture of Pashtun culture and Islamic law, have closed universities, colleges, and secondary and primary schools ...