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Contestation and Compromise in Shaping the European Union's Corporate Sustainability due Diligence Directive: Implications for Global Value Chain Governance

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, Matthew Alford, Khalid Nadvi   +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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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, Zdravko Veljanov, Aly Abdou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The interrogative in the S.A. Bantu languages [PDF]

, 2014
The article will give an overview of questions in the S.A. Bantu languages with specific attention to the syntax and semantics of these sentence, i.e. the structure and meaning of interrogative clauses. For this purpose the following issues will be dealt
Du Plessis, Jacobus A.
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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
wiley   +1 more source

On the semantics of when-clauses

, 2010
This paper is about non-interrogative temporal embedded clauses introduced by when (temporal when-clauses), their semantic interpretation and their syntax/semantics mapping.
Hall, David Patrick, Caponigro, Ivano
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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
wiley   +1 more source

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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Moral Tolerance: The Ethics of Social Punishment in Cases of Moral Disagreement

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many practical contemporary contexts, people need to make correct ethical judgements about how to respond to perceived wrongdoing—in particular, whether to punish it or tolerate it. This judgement can be challenging when the wrongdoer does not accept the allegation of wrongdoing at the level of moral principle, holding that the type of ...
Hugh Breakey, Graham Wood
wiley   +1 more source

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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