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Clause chaining and switch-reference in Aikanã and Kwaza
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2021 In Aikanã and Kwaza, neighbouring endangered isolate languages of Rondônia, Brazil, sentences can include chains of medial clauses and end with a predicate in a matrix sentence mood, such as declarative, interrogative etc.
Hein van der Voort
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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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Island effects in Spanish comprehension
Glossa, 2020 A growing body of experimental syntactic research has revealed substantial variation in the magnitude of island effects, not only across languages but also across different grammatical constructions.
Claudia Felser +4 more
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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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The Syntax of Serbian How-Complements
LanguagesThis paper discusses a special type of complement of perception verbs in Serbian, introduced by kako (‘how’). Via a parallel corpus analysis, I compare the distribution of Serbian kako-clauses and English -ing forms.
Alberto Frasson
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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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Factive Islands and Interrogative Logical Triviality
, 2020 Factive predicates can prevent wh-movement from the clauses they embed (Cinque 1990). This \u27factive island\u27 effect has recently been analysed as resulting from pragmatic constraints on questions: wh-extraction is thought to be prohibited either ...
Kalpak, Hana, Hana Kalpak
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Agree in the derivation of root subjunctives in Corfioto
IsoglossThis paper investigates the nature of the syntactic operation Agree with respect to syntactic restrictions in subject-verb agreement in the derivation of root subjunctive clauses in Corfioto, the endangered Balkan Venetan variety of the Corfiot Jews ...
Georgios Vardakis
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Ecuador's 2008 Constitution advanced an ambitious substantive economic vision through Buen Vivir (Good Living), recognizing a plural economy which encompasses private, public and solidarity economy (SE) sectors. This paper aims to analyze public procurement programs in Ecuador, one of the flagship Buen Vivir policies for SE promotion.
Maria‐José Ruiz‐Rivera +1 more
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Quantitative research of English Nominal clauses [PDF]
, 2023 The paper presents and investigates the incidence of nominal clauses in spoken and written English. The focus is placed on the frequency of occurrence and the range of subordinators that introduce this type of subordinate clause.
Jovanovska, Sashka
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