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Metaphor and Metonymy according to functionalist approach: the study of grammaticalization of the É QUE

open access: yesSigno, 2016
There is a growing spoken and written use of the expression é que named " expletive " both in the Brazilian and European Portuguese. This paper reports the results of an empirical investigation of the emergence use of the expression é que.
João Bosco Figueiredo Gomes   +1 more
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Grammaticized discourse connectivity [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2014
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2013), pp.
openaire   +2 more sources

Does the CEO's Attention Affect How Well the Firm Performs Environmentally?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores whether CEOs' environmental attention (CEA) enhances firms' environmental performance. Drawing on attention‐based and upper echelons theories, which emphasize that executives' cognitive focus shapes organizational outcomes, we argue that CEOs who devote greater attention to environmental issues are more likely to integrate ...
Salah Aldain Abdullah Alshorman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sul presente neoindoario a doppio verbo finito

open access: yesAtti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019
The present paper deals with the problem of the origin of a type of “double-finite” periphrasis having the structure, e. g., IS WALKS = ‘walks’ – i.e., formed by a finite form of the ‘be’ auxiliary plus a finite form of the main verb – which is used to ...
Paolo Milizia
doaj   +1 more source

Grammaticalization or pragmaticalization of discourse markers? More than a terminological issue

open access: yes, 2012
Whether the diachronic evolution of discourse markers (DMs) should be accounted for in terms of grammaticalization and/or pragmaticalization is a question that has given rise to a number of diverging views (see e.g.
New Reflections on Grammaticalization 5   +2 more
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CEO Characteristics, Carbon Disclosure and Earnings Management in China: The Role of Risk Tolerance and Environmental Uncertainty

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how earnings management shapes the relationship between CEO characteristics, i.e., gender, education, age, tenure and financial expertise, and corporate carbon disclosure. While prior research links managerial attributes to environmental transparency, limited attention has been paid to the role of financial reporting ...
Shihong Zeng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multidimensional Sustainability Performance Measurement in the Banking Industry: A Data‐Driven Grey Decision‐Support Framework

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the critical role that banks play in sustainable development through their financial intermediation and capital allocation functions, assessing their sustainability performance has become an increasingly important research issue.
Özcan Işık   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rota de Gramaticalização dos advérbios ainda e sempre

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2013
This paper presents a possible route for the grammaticalization of items ainda (still) and sempre (always), traditionally classified as adverbs of time in Portuguese language. We study how that items start their grammaticalization process.
Beatriz Del Grossi Ferreira
doaj   +1 more source

Grammaticalization in sign languages

open access: yes, 2012
AbstractThis article considers the factors and processes associated with grammaticalisation in sign languages. It provides commentaries on the methodological challenges diachronic sign language research is faced with and describes selected grammaticalisation phenomena that we take to be modality-independent.
Pfau, R., Steinbach, M.
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