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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]
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2013), pp.
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Does the CEO's Attention Affect How Well the Firm Performs Environmentally?
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
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Sul presente neoindoario a doppio verbo finito
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
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Grammaticalization or pragmaticalization of discourse markers? More than a terminological issue
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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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
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The grammaticalization of the infinitival preposition
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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
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Rota de Gramaticalização dos advérbios ainda e sempre
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
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Grammaticalization in sign languages
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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