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The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
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WU-Type Construction in Karaja
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2000 This paper studies the left periphery of the clause in Karaja, a Macro-Je stock language spoken by about 3,000 people on and around the Bananal Island in Central Brazil.
Maia, Marcus
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy +3 more
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Bipartite question formation in Sm’algyax
GlossaMatrix questions in Sm’algyax (Tsimshianic; British Columbia, Alaska) are doubly marked. Wh-questions involve the fronting of a wh-expression to the clause-initial position, together with the interrogative clitic =u; polar questions are introduced by the
Colin Jonathan Brown
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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, 2021 The system of clause type in English, standardly treated as comprising four terms-declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamative-each associated with a characteristic illocutionary force, raises challenging questions as to the relationship ...
Collins, Peter ; https://orcid.org/
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“Green Developmentalism” and the Role of International Law in Negotiating the Energy Transition
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Policy evolutions in North American and European capitals have prompted debates about ongoing shifts in global economic governance from a primary emphasis on promoting markets to a more extensive role for the state in steering economic relations.
Lorenzo Cotula
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Proximity Loses: Real-Time Resolution of Ambiguous Wh-Questions in Japanese
LanguagesThis study investigated how Japanese speakers interpret structurally ambiguous wh-questions, testing whether filler–gap resolution is guided by syntactic resolution based on hierarchical structure or linear locality based on surface word order.
Chie Nakamura +3 more
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Pronominal Doubling in Estonian Complex Wh-Questions; pp. 81-103 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2018 In recent years, the use of pronoun-doubling constructions as alternatives to standard long-distance wh-questions, where the wh-phrase is spelled out only in the matrix clause, has received substantial attention in research of syntactic variation ...
Kais Allkivi
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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