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Targeted Trade Policy Instruments and Climate Change Mitigation: The Case of Environmental Provisions in Trade Agreements

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the effect of including environmental provisions (EPs) in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on climate change mitigation and explores whether these effects vary based on the heterogeneity of the EPs. Our analysis combines country‐level data on climate change mitigation with details on 300 types of EPs in 775 trade ...
Petros Suzgo Kayovo Mkandawire   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Do M&A Rumours Influence Deal Completion? The Role of Board Gender Diversity and Language Differences

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract In this study, we apply the upper echelons theory (UET) lens to investigate how M&A rumours influence deal completion. Based on our findings, we propose a two‐stage channel that drives the rumour‐specific effect. In doing so, we provide theoretical arguments and empirical support for the relationship between M&A rumours and deal completions ...
Yama Temouri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The necklace of the Pleiades : studies in Persian Literature Presented to Heshmat Moayyad on his 80th Birthday : 24 essays on Persian literature, culture and religion

open access: yes, 2010
The Necklace of the Pleiades is a volume on Persian literature, culture and religion by Persian scholars from around the world. This book reflects the state of the field of Persian literary studies and will be of substantial interest not only to scholars
Michele Piemontese, Angelo   +2 more
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

NP Focus in Somali and Dirayta A Comparison of Baa and Pa

open access: yes, 1984
This paper is concerned with a comparison of the focus word 'baa' in standard Somali with a proposed cognate 'pa' in Dirayta (Eastern Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia).Maqaalkani wuxuu isu barbardhigayaa diradeeyaha "baa" ee Af-soomaaliga iyo ...
Hayward, Dick, Saeed, John
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
wiley   +1 more source

There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
wiley   +1 more source

Relation between Ailao and Lao Thai in Southeast Asia

open access: yes, 2013
哀牢夷的名称最早出现在东汉时期的史料中。一些西方学者和东南亚学者认为老挝的佬族、泰国的泰族(以下简称佬泰族)是哀牢夷的后裔,曾经建立了南诏国。通过对相关史料的对比分析,应用历史比较语言学的相关理论和方法进行分析,可以认为哀牢夷属于古羌族,哀牢夷与东南亚佬泰族没有族源关系。Ailao first appeared in the historical data of the Eastern Han Dynasty.Some Western scholars and Southeast Asia ...
潘岳
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