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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford +2 more
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The grammaticalization of K(case): grammaticalization and 'lateral' grammaticalization
, 2017 This paper considers the genesis of case markers (K(case)), a functional category hitherto unanalysed in formal (Minimalist) analyses of grammaticalization (Roberts and Roussou (2003), van Gelderen (2004, 2011)), and new proposals are made not only with regards to their diachronic genesis but also to their synchronic and typological status in Case ...
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A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
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From LIKE/LOVE to habitual: the case of Mainland East and Southeast Asian languages
LinguisticsThis paper documents the common grammaticalization path of the LIKE/LOVE constructions into expressing habitual aspect in Mainland East and Southeast Asian languages. The stages and degrees of grammaticalization for the LIKE/LOVE constructions vary cross-
Fang Hongmei
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La teoría de la gramaticalización y sus aplicaciones en las lenguas románicas
Estudios de Lingüística, 2004 The paper aims at showing how grammaticalization theory applies to Romance languages. In the first part of the paper we give a short overview of the main definitions and principles of the theory.
Béatrice Lamiroy
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Industrial clusters are central to the circular economy transition, yet how they develop into eco‐clusters and the paradoxical tensions this transformation fuels remain underexplored. Drawing on 48 in‐depth interviews and secondary data from a Turkish textile‐recycling cluster, we develop an empirically grounded model of eco‐cluster transition
Tulin Dzhengiz +2 more
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Does the CEO's Attention Affect How Well the Firm Performs Environmentally?
Business 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
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 Cognitive and generative approaches to linguistics have taken a different perspective on grammatical polysemy and grammaticalization. While the former see polysemy as a core characteristic of language and a necessary result of grammaticalization within ...
Locatell, Christian
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Grammaticalization, reanalysis, and CP layering
, 2005 The article describes the diachronic development of the distibutional properties of some wh-items in the Northern Veneto dialects from the 16th to the 20th century; on the basis of this empirical evidence, the author shows that grammaticalization ...
MUNARO, Nicola, NICOLA MUNARO, MUNARO N.
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The Grammaticization of Passive Morphology [PDF]
Studies in Language, 1990 This paper examines passive markers in 80 languages from around the world and asks what kinds of source constructions typically give rise to passive markers.
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