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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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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
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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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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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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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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels +4 more
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Erlatiboak iparraldean "Haur prodigo"aren 141 itzulpenetan
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2009 The article attempts to analyze the comparative usage of the different relative clause types through the 141 translations of the parabola of the Prodigal son in the Bourciez collection.
Bittor Hidalgo
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar +2 more
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Comparatives in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)
Linguistic Discovery, 2018 This study focuses on the comparative constructions in Turkish Sign Language (TİD), the native language of the deaf in Turkey. We show that in terms of Stassen’s (2013) typology, TİD uses two distinct constructions to express comparison: (i) Conjoined ...
A. Sumru Özsoy, Hüner Kaşıkara
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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