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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Integrating the attention‐based view with the strategic leadership interfaces perspective, we propose a theoretical model of situational urgency mechanisms influencing the allocation of CEOs' attention towards responsive actions. Specifically, we theorize upon the role of humility, which leads CEOs towards embracing interfaces and makes them ...
Petrit Ademi +2 more
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Irish treebanking and parsing: a preliminary evaluation [PDF]
, 2012 Language resources are essential for linguistic research and the development of NLP applications. Low- density languages, such as Irish, therefore lack significant research in this area.
Cetinoglu, Ozlem +5 more
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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation
Studia Linguistica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
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Studia Linguistica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the putative N‐intervening word order among Numeral (Num), Classifier (Clf), and Noun (N), that is, [Clf N Num], where the numeral is the indigenous one, found in 16 Asian languages, 15 Tai‐Kadai and one Austroasiatic, whose canonical word order is otherwise [Num Clf N].
Zi‐Yun Cao, One‐Soon Her
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Reassessing pseudosluicing in Austronesian
Syntax, EarlyView.Abstract Pseudosluicing diagnostics have played an important role in wider debates about sluicing. Sluicing is the term used to describe the deletion of an embedded clausal constituent, which leaves only a wh‐phrase overt. Genuine sluicing requires syntactic or semantic identity between the sluiced clause and its antecedent, contrasting with ...
John Middleton
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Against a Davidsonian analysis of copula sentences [PDF]
, 2003 Semantic research over the past three decades has provided impressive confirmation of Donald Davidsons famous claim that “there is a lot of language we can make systematic sense of if we suppose events exist” (Davidson 1980:137).
Maienborn, Claudia
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
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Arabic verbless sentences: is there a null VP? [PDF]
, 2005 Este trabajo pretende describir y analizar el fenómeno de la ausencia de verbo copulativo en tiempo presente en las oraciones sin verbo en árabe. Por regla general, se asume que, en árabe, las oraciones sin verbo contienen un verbo copulativo nulo o ...
Al-Horais, Nasser
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Where Mathematical Symbols Come From
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract There is a sense in which the symbols used in mathematical expressions and formulas are arbitrary. After all, arithmetic would be no different if we would replace the symbols ‘+$+$’ or ‘8’ by different symbols. Nevertheless, the shape of many mathematical symbols is in fact well motivated in practice.
Dirk Schlimm
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