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Australian Complex Predicates

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2006
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openaire   +2 more sources

Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Process, eventuality and wieder/again [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper argues for a scopal explanation of the readings of the adverb wieder (‘again’). It is the syntactic entity that wieder is related to which determines whether the repetitive or the restitutive reading obtains.
Pittner, Karin
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National Environmental Policies and Corporate Green Innovation: The Mirroring Versus Substitution Hypotheses

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on comparative institutional theory, we study the nature and magnitude of the effects of national environmental policies on corporate green innovation in developed versus emerging markets. Using a sample of 1831 listed firms in 34 countries from 2002 to 2020, we find that national environmental policies increase corporate green ...
Ivan Miroshnychenko   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Not Strictly a Woman—QUD-Based Four-Valent Reasoning Discharges Lexical Meaning

open access: yesLogics
We offer a framework that captures both context-dependency and vagueness of predicate meanings—illustrated by the politically relevant case of woman—as an interaction of lexical meaning and Question under Discussion (‘QUD’). We extend existing approaches
Emil Eva Rosina, Franci Mangraviti
doaj   +1 more source

Unlocking Proenvironmental Behaviour: A Scoping Review of Green Human Resource Management and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour for the Environment Through the Ability–Motivation–Opportunity Lens

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite accelerating interest in green human resource management (GHRM) and its connection to organisational citizenship behaviour for the environment (OCBE), the field remains theoretically fragmented. This scoping review synthesises 12 empirical studies anchored in the ability–motivation–opportunity (AMO) framework.
Mamdoh M. Algethami, Nadine Campbell
wiley   +1 more source

Contrastive Meanings of the Terms "Predicative" and "Predicational" in Various Linguistic Theories (II) [PDF]

open access: yesComputer Science Journal of Moldova, 2004
This paper is devoted to a problem of lexical semantics, discussing various aspects gravitating around two distinct meanings of the terms "predicative" and/or "predicational" in some important and/or of particular interest linguistic approaches, trying ...
Neculai Curteanu
doaj  

From Stakeholder Pressure to Strategic Advantage: A Framework of Achieving Environment Sustainability Through Pathway of Carbon Neutrality

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Businesses are increasingly striving to reduce their carbon footprint, with carbon offsetting emerging as a viable pathway towards achieving carbon neutrality. Such efforts signify a demonstrated commitment to fostering environmental sustainability and contributing to a more sustainable future.
Sanjeev Yadav   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The organization of verb meaning in Lengua de Señas Nicaragüense (LSN): Sequential or simultaneous structures?

open access: yesGlossa
One structural dimension that varies across languages is the simultaneous or sequential expression of meaning. Complex predicates can layer meanings together simultaneously in a single-verb predicate (SVP) or distribute them sequentially in a multiple ...
Ann Senghas   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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