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The use and interpretation of the particle snad in polar interrogative clauses [PDF]

This BA thesis deals with the use and interpretation of the Czech particle snad in both matrix and embedded polar questions. The interpretation is carried out with particular attention to two pragmatic factors: epistemic and evidential bias. Based on the
Koštejnová, Adéla
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Accountability in Government Use of AI: Citizen Concerns and Preferences

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Government adoption of AI opens the “pandora's box” of accountability, a core aspect of public value. Despite the centrality of governmental AI accountability, citizens' concerns and preferences in holding governments accountable for AI usage remain poorly understood.
Naikang Feng, Yanto Chandra
wiley   +1 more source

Past participle agreement in Felanitx and Manacor : the case for the preverbal direct object without clitic

Études romanes de Brno
This paper examines the vitality of past participle agreement (PPA) in the Catalan spoken in Mallorca, specifically in Felanitx and Manacor. Through grammaticality judgments and induction tests, it analyzes the presence of PPA in interrogative and ...
Maria Nicolau Bennàsar, Elga Cremades Cortiella   +1 more
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

Thematic Structure in the Persian Imperative Clauses [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān
This study investigates the thematic structure of Persian imperative clauses within the framework of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), focusing on the concept of Theme.
Azadeh Mirzaei
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
wiley   +1 more source

Interrogative Clauses across CEFR Levels in Finnish and Swedish as an L2

, 2014
The present study investigates the frequency of three types of interrogative clauses in 329 semi-formal email messages written by language learners of Finnish and of Swedish spoken in Finland.
Lahtinen, Sinikka, Toropainen, Outi
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SyMiLa and the Atlas linguistique de la France: A tool for the study of Gallo-Romance syntax

Glossa, 2018
This paper presents different ways in which the Gallo-Romance data of the Atlas linguistique de la France (ALF) can contribute to syntactic description, typology and analysis.
Anne Dagnac
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How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Taking its cue from the growing frequency of disruptive crises, new research argues that crisis‐induced turbulence calls for robust governance based on adaptation and innovation. While law plays a key role in the effort of governments to govern robustly, the robustness of law has received scant regard.
Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing, Peter Triantafillou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preposition omission before indirect questions in contemporary standard European Portuguese

Études romanes de Brno
This paper discusses the use of argumental prepositions, mainly de 'of' and sobre 'about', before subordinate interrogative clauses, used as complements, examining the tendency – discussed in the literature – to suppress them.
Telmo Móia
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