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Artificial Intelligence, Regulatory Capacity, and the Adaptive State

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence is changing not only what regulators govern but the informational environment through which regulation is conducted. Regulators increasingly use advanced analytics to process evidence and target supervisory attention, while regulated organizations deploy AI across their operations. This paper develops the concept of the
Chris Doyle, Martin Cave, William Webb
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Reconstraining massive pied-piping in English: A non-interrogative CP analysis [PDF]

, 2020
This dissertation focuses on the distribution of massive pied-piping (Heck 2008) constructions in English. Compared to other forms of wh-movement and pied-piping, broadly speaking, massive pied-piping is limited in the environments in which it may ...
Amy, Daniel Garrett
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Synchronic and diachronic variation phenomena in inverted interrogative and related contexts in Northern Italian dialects

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007
In the spirit of Ferdinand de Saussure, the present contribution is offered as an integrated synchronic and diachronic analysis of syntactic variation phenomena across a selected number of Veneto and other Northern Italian dialects: the main focus of the
Chiara Polo
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Syntactic Structures on Intonational Pitch Movement in Mandarin Chinese

Languages
Previous research on Mandarin Chinese tones and intonation has focused primarily on universal sentence pitch patterns (declination) and sentence types (declarative and interrogative).
Ling Zhang
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Effect of the first language on spanish learners’ production of english embedded interrogative clauses

Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023
This paper tries to articulate from the point of view of linguistic theory how Spanish native grammatical competence of embedded indirect questions, as characterized by the Minimalist Program (Chomsky, 1995), can influence knowledge and production of ...
Marciano Escutia
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Embedded Inversion Worldwide

Linguaculture, 2010
The inversion of (auxiliary) verb and subject in subordinate interrogative clauses (embedded inversion, or EI) is a feature that occurs in many non-standard varieties of English, especially in varieties that have developed in language contact situations,
Daniela Kolbe, Andrea Sand
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Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu, Busani Maseko, Liqhwa Siziba   +2 more
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Hauta-galderez

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2009
Grammars usually distinguish three kinds of interrogative sentences: a) WH questions; b) alternative questions and 3) polar or 'yes/no' questions. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the analysis of the last two types in Basque.
Patxi Goenaga
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