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The Vulnerable on Campus: Financial Independence of College Students

Journal of Consumer Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT College years are a critical transition period from financial dependence to financial independence for young adult college students but research on financial independence of this population is limited. The purpose of this exploratory, mixed‐method study is to identify types of young adult college students in terms of financial independence ...
Jing Jian Xiao, Nilton Porto, Luiz Cruz, Ting An   +3 more
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The Ancient Egyptian Second Infinitive? ‘iw + subject + r + infinitive’ Interpreted Through the Biblical Infinitive Absolute and the Polish Second Infinitive

Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2014
Infinitives and infinitival constructions seem to be a kind of conceptualization embedded in a language with a ‘genus’ different to that of other grammatical forms. But why did human cognition invent infinitives and their associated constructions?
Mariusz Izydor Prokopowicz
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The double modal construction in English world wide

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 485-503, September 2026.
Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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There is no need to climb!

Isogloss
This paper explores the correlation between clitic climbing and restructuring. In particular, it offers evidence from Catalan and cross-linguistic data to demonstrate that restructuring is universal and that clitic climbing is a facultative epiphenomenon
Anna Paradís
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Bringing Purported Black Sheep into the Fold: Galician Inflected Infinitives and Puerto Rican Spanish Pre-Verbal Infinitival Subject Pronouns

Languages, 2019
This work reports the results of quantitative, variationist analyses of two typologically unusual constructions in order to explore the grammatical conditioning of subject expression in non-finite clauses.
Esther Brown, Javier Rivas
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The Effect of Arabic Infinitives on Persian Word Formation: An Application of Johnson’s “Lexical Variation Theory” Using a statistical model (based on the story Dar Ol-Majanin; Malakoot and Gileh Mard [PDF]

ادبیات تطبیقی, 2019
Along with human relationships, languages are in continuous exchange. The clearest evidence for language exchange is the existence of loan words in a language.
Farzaneh Haji Qasemi, Somayeh Kazemi NajafAbadi   +1 more
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Developing indices to study engineers' interest, confidence, and experience with global engineering work activities

Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 115, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract Background As engineering work has become increasingly globalized, prior studies have examined the intercultural attitudes and competencies of engineering students and practicing engineers. However, we lack tools to study how engineers engage in global work across industries, roles, and organizational contexts.
Lexy Arinze, Joe Tort, Kirsten A. Davis
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On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects

Isogloss
In this paper I argue that the position and realization of subjects in adverbial non-finite clauses in Italian, Spanish, Galician, and European Portuguese can provide valuable insight into the licensing conditions for pro and postverbal subjects in ...
Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro
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What Nature Does the Persian Infinitive Have and How Is It Projected? An Explanation in the Distributed Morphology Framework [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān
The categorization and syntactic structure of the infinitive have been subjects of debate, with differing views considering it either as a noun or a verb.
Claris Sarkissian, Fatemeh Bahrami, Mazdak Anoushe   +2 more
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An Early Lexical Screening Tool for British English: Psychometric Properties and Clinical Utility

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 4, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Existing direct measures of vocabulary for ages 2–3 years are insufficient as vocabulary increases to include nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, reflecting qualitative changes that support emerging grammatical abilities. Aims The present study aims to establish the psychometric properties and validate a lexical screening tool for
Allegra Cattani, Dora Bianchi, Caroline Floccia   +2 more
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