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Thematic Structure in the Persian Imperative Clauses [PDF]
̒Ilm-i ZabānThis 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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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
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Preposition omission before indirect questions in contemporary standard European Portuguese
Études romanes de BrnoThis 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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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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The acquisition of German relative clauses: A case study [PDF]
, 2008 This paper investigates the development of relative clauses in the speech of one German-speaking child aged 2;0 to 5;0. The earliest relative clauses we found in the data occur in topicalization constructions that are only a little different from simple ...
Diessel, Holger +2 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) in the context of ongoing debates on private and public governance of global value chains (GVCs). Conceptually, it draws on neo‐Gramscian perspectives to analyze how contestation and compromise between distinct stakeholders and dynamics of hegemony
Louise Curran +2 more
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Public Procurement's Long COVID: Emergency Responses and Shifting Corruption Risks in Europe
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic caused an unprecedented surge in spending to combat the pandemic with widespread accusations of corruption. The magnitude, drivers, and trajectory of corruption across the pandemic response remain underexplored. This paper approximates the impacts of the pandemic on public procurement corruption risks and the mechanisms ...
Mihály Fazekas +2 more
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„Nescit quo flectere puppem" (Corippi Johan. I 273). Hipoteza kontaminacyjna
Vox Patrum, 2005 The paper examines a Late Latin construction consisting of a relative or an interrogative pronoun followed by a bare infinitive. It has been often proposed that the syntactic structure of such sentences results from a contamination of two distinct ...
Jarosław Jakielaszek
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Integrity management systems (IMSs) are increasingly promoted to embed ethical conduct, mitigate corruption risks, and strengthen organizational accountability. Yet empirical evidence on their effectiveness remains sparse and contradictory, offering little insight into how these systems operate in practice and why they often fail in heavily ...
Georgios Kominis +3 more
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Unveiling Multiple wh- Free Relative Clauses and their functional wh-words
, 2020 International audienceWe provide the first description and compositional semantic analysis of a construction that we label a “multiple wh- free relative clause”⎯an embedded non-interrogative wh- clause with more than one wh-word. We show that multiple wh-
Falaus, Anamaria, Caponigro, Ivano
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