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Predictably intransitive preferences [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2018 The transitivity axiom is common to nearly all descriptive and normative utility theories of choice under risk. Contrary to both intuition and common assumption, the little-known 'Steinhaus-Trybula paradox' shows the relation 'stochastically greater than'
David J. Butler, Ganna Pogrebna
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Invasion Consequences in Communities Maintained by Niche and Intransitive Coexistence Mechanisms
Diversity, 2023 Understanding invasion mechanisms or identifying their potential outcomes has been a longstanding objective of invasion. Many recent empirical and theoretical works tend to frame a perspective of invasion biology within the field of coexistence theory ...
Bozhong Zhang +3 more
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To What Extent Does Split Intransitivity of the Adult Target Affect Children’s Emerging Verb Patterns? [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2014 The Unaccusative Hypothesis has produced several diagnoses for determining whether a given intransitive verb is unaccusative or unergative. While some are suggested to be language-specific, like ne in Italian or pleonastic “there” in English, others have
John M. Ryan
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Lexico - Semantic Interpretation of Transitive And Intransitive Constructions in The Grammar of The German Language [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 The article is devoted to the description of studies of transitivity-intransitivity categories as a grammatical category of the German language.The author pays special attention to the question of the function and place of the accusative in a German ...
Abdukadyrova Tumisha, Khasieva Marina
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Empirical evidence for intransitivity in consumer preferences
Heliyon, 2020 The present paper addresses one of the most important assumptions in consumer preference patterns: transitivity. This assumption states that, logically, selections between goods are rational because of the transitivity statement, which posits that people
Jorge Guadalupe-Lanas +3 more
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Transimpersonal constructions in Lithuanian: towards the emergence of Split Intransitivity
Baltistica, 2015 Transimpersonal constructions have recently attracted the attention of many scholars, especially in the field of functional typology, as they have been proven to play an important role in the rise of Split Intransitive patterns in languages. In the light
Silvia Piccini
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Light Verbs and Split Ergativity in the Western Cholan Languages
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2006 This paper is a discussion of a complex verbal construction in Western Cholan languages and how this construction interacts with the split ergative systems found in these languages. The Cholan languages all display split-ergative systems based on aspect.
Montgomery-Anderson, Brad
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CurmElo: The theory and practice of a forced-choice approach to producing preference rankings.
PLoS ONE, 2021 We introduce CurmElo, a forced-choice approach to producing a preference ranking of an arbitrary set of objects that combines the Elo algorithm with novel techniques for detecting and correcting for (1) preference heterogeneity induced polarization in ...
Soham Sankaran +2 more
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Plant-soil feedbacks promote coexistence and resilience in multi-species communities.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Both ecological theory and empirical evidence suggest that negative frequency dependent feedbacks structure plant communities, but integration of these findings has been limited.
Keenan M L Mack +2 more
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Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2012 Resumen: En el marco de los esquemas de intransitividad y transitividad indirecta (preposicional), este trabajo se limita a describir algunos ejemplos de verbos que alternan entre una construcción pronominal y otra no pronominal en portugués al contrario
Shirley de Sousa Pereira
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