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Penalty Clauses In England And France: A Comparative Study [PDF]
International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 2004 The study of penalty clauses1is a rewarding area of comparative research. The most cursory of examinations reveals the diametrically opposed theoretical positions of contemporary legal orthodoxy in France and England. Asearch for the rationale behind this theoretical divergence gives insight not only into the broader conceptual and substantive ...
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Marcher comme une reine/ Nager comme une sirène. Les verbes de déplacement et les compléments de manière en comme [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2011 The aim of this paper is to explore the relation between lexical and syntactic encoding of manner in French by studying the combinatory potential of a small set of manner of motion verbs with comparative comme ‘as’ clauses (e.g.
Estelle Moline, Dejan Stosic
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Arbitral Clauses / Some Comparative Observations [PDF]
, 1983 On 1 September 1981 the local court (kantongerecht) of Alphen aan den Rijn decided on a case in which a contracting party, a commercial enterprise, invoked an arbitral clause in order to prevent the court from deciding the case on its merits. In accordance with Dutch case law, the defendant’s reliance on the arbitral clause was allowed and plaintiffs ...
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Parametric variation in Romance synchronic V2 through a French lens
Isogloss, 2022 In this article I provide an analysis of XVS order in (Modern) standard French, and reconcile it with comparative analyses of XVS in (Modern) Romance by taking into account recent conceptual accounts for topic and focus.
Karen Lahousse
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Linguistic analysis of the object clauses [PDF]
Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și LiteraturăThis study provides a comparative linguistic analysis of object subordinate clauses in modern English and Azerbaijani. It examines the structural and semantic criteria that distinguish subordination from coordination, emphasizing that the number of ...
Parvana ABBASOVA
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LanguagesThis paper investigates the syntax and diachrony of Italian causal clauses introduced by perché, siccome, and poiché. Although often treated as near-synonyms in Contemporary Italian, these subordinators differ systematically in their syntactic ...
Jacopo Garzonio, Emanuela Sanfelici
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Revista de Investigações Constitucionais, 2018 The debate over the exercise of primary and secondary constituent power is a long-lasting one and is grounded on positions diverging according to the interpretation of constitutionalism and democracy, and to the conception of constitution’s flexibility ...
Valentina Rita Scotti
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 The paper reexamines the interpretations that quantifiers in "than"-clauses give rise to. It develops an analysis that combines an interval semantics for the "than"-clause with a standard semantics for the comparative operator.
Sigrid Beck
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Cortadora relative clauses: A comparative analysis between Spanish, Portuguese and French
Isogloss, 2020 This paper focuses on cortadora relative clauses – or non-pronominal relative clauses –, a special type of relativization registered in Rio de la Plata Spanish varieties, in which the preposition is deleted or ‘chopped’ (‘cortada’). This phenomenon is an
Enrique Pato, Anahí Alba de la Fuente
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DISTRIBUTION OF SEMI-CLAUSE CONSTRUCTIONS IN ACTS OF PARLIAMENT VS. APPELLATE JUDGMENTS
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2014 The paper presents the findings obtained by comparative syntactic analysis of four types of semi-clause constructions (present participial, gerundial, infinitival and past participial) in two corpora of British legal English, i.e. Acts of Parliament and
Zuzana NAD’OVÁ
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