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Acquiring complexity: the Portuguese of some Piraha Men

Linguistic Discovery, 2012
The Piraha language has been claimed to have no syntactic complexity. What happens when speakers of this language come into contact with another, more complex language?
Jeanette Sakel
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Does Strengthening Collective Action Clauses (CACs) Help? [PDF]

We study the effect of strengthening CACs in a debt rollover model of a sovereign debt crisis. Conditional on default, there are multiple equilibria: the impact of strengthening CACs depends critically on the prevailing equilibrium.
Kannika Thampanishvong, Sayantan Ghosal
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The Syntax of Serbian How-Complements

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This paper discusses a special type of complement of perception verbs in Serbian, introduced by kako (‘how’). Via a parallel corpus analysis, I compare the distribution of Serbian kako-clauses and English -ing forms.
Alberto Frasson
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Renegotiation, Collective Action Clauses and Sovereign Debt Markets [PDF]

Collective action clauses (CACs) are provisions specifying that a supermajority of bondholders can change the terms of a bond. We study how CACs determine governments' fiscal incentives, sovereign bond prices and default probabilities in environments ...
Federico Weinschelbaum, Jose Wynne
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Reconstruction in German relative clauses : in favor of the matching analysis [PDF]

, 2008
In this paper I argue in favor of a Matching Analysis for German relative clauses. The Head Raising Analysis is shown to fail to account for parts of the reconstruction pattern in German, especially cases where only the external head is interpreted and ...
Salzmann, Martin
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(EYE)-TRACKING OBJECT RELATIVE CLAUSES PROCESSING: ANTICIPATION AND INTEGRATION OF CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION ON AMIBIGUITY RESOLUTION

Gragoatá, 2016
The on-line processing of temporarily ambiguous object relative clauses (relative clause/complement clause) is investigated in contexts that favor the incremental integration of information and the anticipation of the referent of a complex DP.
Renê Forster, Letícia Maria Sicuro Corrêa   +1 more
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On the Syntax of Instrumental Clauses: The Case of Indem-Clauses in German

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In this article, I examine the external and internal syntax of instrumental indem-clauses in German. As a subordidating conjunction, indem takes a finite TP as its complement and triggers verb final position.
Łukasz Jędrzejowski
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Complement Clauses in Tuvan and Their Counterparts in Turkish

, 2017
The topic of this article is non-finite complement clauses in Tuvan and their counterparts in Turkish. Tuvanian non-finite complement clauses which are formed with participle and infinitive suffixes (-GAn, -(V) r, -vAK)link to the main clause as a ...
AYDEMİR, İBRAHİM AHMET
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Complement clauses in Russian : A corpus study

This thesis mainly investigates Russian complement clauses in the Uppsala corpus. The clauses are divided into the standard groups described by Švedova 1980 and the Swedish Academy Grammar (Svenska Akademiens grammatik 1999).
Edgren, Arthur
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Collective action clauses in sovereign bonds [PDF]

The universal adoption of collective action clauses (CACs) was the most promising reform proposal in recent debates on sovereign debt crisis management. Academics and the public sector had been promoting CACs since 1995, yet market practice did not begin
Häseler, Sönke
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