Escape from Noun Complement Clauses in Avatime
LanguagesThis paper discusses the status of island phenomena in Avatime, an endangered Kwa language of Ghana. We focus on clausal adjuncts, specifically noun complement clauses (NCCs). We show that while standard adjuncts are strong islands in Avatime, NCCs allow
Travis Major, Harold Torrence
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The Impact of Intentional Breach of Contract on the Validity of Exemption Clauses (A Comparative Study in Civil Law, Common Law, and Islamic Legal Systems, with Emphasis on Judicial Practices and Jurisprudential Foundations) [PDF]
پژوهش تطبیقی حقوق اسلام و غرب, 2023 Failure to perform contractual obligations may be unintentional or intentional. Intentional breach represents the most severe form of contract violation, consequently leading to unique consequences not applicable in cases of unintentional breaches, among
Ebrahim Abdipour Fard, Rohollah Rezayi
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Superlative QP “Hyper-Raising” in dialectal Spanish: the role of dormant Edge Features
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 In this paper I deal with a particular relative-clause superlative construction attested in Spanish dialects like Canariense (Bosque & Brucart 1991) and Puerto Rican (Rohena-Madrazo 2007), among others.
Luis Ángel Sáez del Álamo
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Quantifying Institutional Fiscal Discipline – Development and Application of the Fiscal Rule Strictness Index (FRSI) in Germany, the USA, and the Czech Republic (2000–2024) [PDF]
ACTA VŠFSBackground - Assessing fiscal discipline is often based on observed outcomes such as debt and deficit levels. However, these indicators reflect policy results rather than the underlying institutional design of fiscal rules.
HOLZMANN, Linus
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Ethics & Global Politics, 2013 How can advocates of global democracy grapple with the empirical conditions that constitute world politics? I argue that flexibility mechanisms—;commonly used to advance international cooperation—should be employed to make the institutional design ...
Jonathan W. Kuyper
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Unifying the that-trace and anti-that-trace effects
Glossa, 2017 This article proposes a unified analysis of the that-trace and anti-that-trace effects in English. Unification of these two seemingly diametrically opposed effects remains an outstanding problem.
Jamie Douglas
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LAW-LANGUAGE: THE CHALLENGE OF THE CAVEAT ‘WHENEVER REASONABLY PRACTICABLE’ IN LANGUAGE POLICIES
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language TeachingThe challenge of escape clauses in various policies has been a longstanding issue for policy scholars worldwide. This challenge is also prevalent in South African institutions, particularly in their language policies. This article reports on the findings
Malesela Montle, Tebogo Johannes Kekana
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The Holocaust in Vilkaviškis County: the Fate of Pilviškiai Jewish Community in 1941
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2011 Until summer 1941, Pilviškiai was one of the important locations populated with Litvaks (Lithuanian Jews) in Užnemunė (the area on the left bank of the River Nemunas) and in Vilkaviškis County.
Stanislovas Buchaveckas
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Flexibility in International Investment Law: Legal Efficacy of Public Health Escape Clauses
Groningen Journal of International LawIn article, I assess whether core terms in recent investment treaties can serve their designed objective by analysing the efficacy of public health exceptions or “escape clauses”.
Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja
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On the Absence of Certain Island Effects in Mende
LanguagesThe distinction between weak and strong islands has been extensively explored in the literature from both a descriptive and analytical perspective. In this paper, I document and analyze island constructions and constraints in Mende, an understudied Mande
Jason D. Smith
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