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Patient perspectives on chronic kidney disease and decision-making about treatment. Discourse of participants in the French CKD-REIN cohort study. [PDF]
Montalescot L +7 more
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Towards a semantic typology of specific determiners [PDF]
This paper investigates properties of a class of determiners which can be loosely la- belled specific in that their distribution falls in between maximally-quantifying definite determiners and indefinites which only contribute existential quantification.
Simonenko, Alexandra
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Abstract Following the global financial crisis, European financial authorities introduced a host of new initiatives intended to advance market integration, improve the quality of bank oversight and enhance both economic stability and prospects for growth.
Dóra Piroska, Rachel A. Epstein
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A pragmatic explanation of the mei-dou co-occurrence in Mandarin. [PDF]
Liu M.
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Adjective Syntax and (the absence of) noun raising in the DP [PDF]
The paper is structured as follows. Section 2.1 introduces the basic classes of adjectives that constitute the factual core of the paper. Section 2.2 summarizes in greater detail the X° and the XP movement approaches to word order variation within the DP.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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What Are Asset Price Bubbles? A Survey on Definitions of Financial Bubbles
ABSTRACT Financial bubbles and crashes have repeatedly caused economic turmoil notably but not just during the 2008 financial crisis. However, both in the popular press as well as scientific publications, the meaning of bubble is sometimes unspecified.
Michael Heinrich Baumann +1 more
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On the Acquisition of Polarity Items: 11- to 12-Year-Olds' Comprehension of German NPIs and PPIs. [PDF]
Schwab J, Liu M, Mueller JL.
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Donkeys under Discussion [PDF]
Donkey sentences have existential and universal readings, but they are not often perceived as ambiguous. We extend the pragmatic theory of nonmaximality in plural definites by Križ (2016) to explain how context disambiguates donkey sentences.
Bumford, Dylan +2 more
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Introduction : Alternatives in semantics and pragmatics [PDF]
International audienceThis chapter offers a state of the art on alternatives in current linguistic theory and provides an accessible but detailed overview of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics.
Falaus, Anamaria
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