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Grammaticalization in Emirati Arabic [PDF]
, 2017 This paper is concerned with the process of language change whereby lexical items and constructions, in specific contexts, come to serve new grammatical functions. Emirati Arabic provides us with a wide range of grammaticalization phenomena.
Najib Ismail Jarad
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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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Studies in African Linguistics, 2019 The present article analyzes the polysemy of the element ti in Kituba from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, by applying the framework of dynamic semantic maps and waves.
Alexander Andrason
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From adjective to prefix : lexicalization and grammaticalization of French ancien/nouveau + N [PDF]
, 2008 "In our paper, we will claim that, once lexicalized, some compounds undergo a further process by which they end up as derivations. This claim implies that there is not only a continuum between syntax and compounding, but also between compounding and ...
Van Goethem, Kristel +1 more
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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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Shared Grammaticalization With Special Focus on Transeurasian Languages [PDF]
Double-negative periphrastic litotes have been for nearly three centuries the usual way to express necessitive predicates in Japanese and Korean. These constructions do not, however, go back to the earliest stages of these languages and should not be ...
Robbeets, Martine., Cuyckens, Hubert.
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Grammaticalization accounts of word order correlations [PDF]
, 2019 This paper examines the role that grammaticalization plays in explaining word order correlations. It presents some data that only grammaticalization accounts for, but also argues that there are correlations that grammaticalization does not account for ...
Matthew S. Dryer
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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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Business 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
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Language Contact and Grammaticalization in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
Academic Journal of Modern PhilologyThe language situation in the countries of the Arab Gulf is a highly complex one. The multilingual landscape is characterized by diglossia (Modern Standard Arabic vs.
Andrei A. Avram
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