In the first part of his book Rouse states his thesis, which is to justify in philosophy naturalism,
construable as metaphilosophical in deference to science, or as philosophical in concert with sciences accountable to nature.
In this essay reflexivity is understood broadly, in line with Derrida's "expansion of the concept of the text," to include print and electronic texts and all details
construable as "enunciatory" or as matters of "discours," in the terminology of Emile Benveniste.
Here is a novelist offering you an image that seems not only familiar, but easily
construable as well, at least to begin with, like the man in Beckett's Watt walking from the rail station with a chamber pot on his head.
There can be little doubt that the Witta who rules the Swaefe, in the Widsith-poet's catalogue of names, is the same man whom Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle identify as the grandson of Woden and the grandfather of Hengest, the renowned conquerer of Kent and, in the eyes of post-Bedan generations, the chief founder of Anglo-Saxon England.(68) Information given in Widsith that at first seems inconsequential or opaque can thus be seen to have a
construable purpose.
Hence, expressionists are inclined to regard art meaning as indexed to something beyond the vehicle of artistic expression -- something
construable cognitivistically as a kind of statement, or emotivistically as an emotion or feeling.
While the surfaces of these works are richer, they are still
construable in the ways we have discussed above.(16)
This is exactly what went through the Marine's mind, and what prompted him to act when he was herded into the rest room, and then ordered to the floor into what is reasonably
construable as an execution position.
(66) In making this determination, the Commission cited dictionary definitions of "profanity" as "'vulgar, irreverent, or coarse language,'" (67) and a Seventh Circuit opinion stating that "profanity" is "'
construable as denoting certain of those personally reviling epithets naturally tending to provoke violent resentment or denoting language so grossly offensive to members of the public who actually hear it as to amount to a nuisance.'" (68) The Commission acknowledged that its limited case law regarding profane speech has focused on profanity in the context of blasphemy, but stated that it would no longer limit its definition of profane speech in such manner.
If so, apparently discontinuous complements of adjectives in cases like (62) and (63) would not be counterexamples to the present theory at all, just PPs that, although introduced by prepositions that would allow them to be complements of the adjectives, are alternatively
construable in certain contexts as modifiers of higher projections.
Grammer, an act
construable as Attempted Murder, which fits that category of crimes known as "heinous felonies against the person." Had he escaped, he would have been likely to remain at large indefinitely, constituting a clear and present danger to innocent human life and to the public safety.
In (41a), the object the book is
construable from the discourse and therefore deaccented (e.g.
An object quantifier can bind a pronoun contained within a subject only if the latter is narrowly focused and the object is
construable from the context.
This `move' schema may be integrated into a scene that is
construable as an eventuality that happens spontaneously without the intervention of an external agent.
