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This paper deals with diachronic aspects of noun incorporation as a low transitivity phenomenon, concentrating on evidence from Indo-European languages.
Kulikov, Leonid +1 more
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Raised Possessors and Noun Incorporation in West Greenlandic [PDF]
This paper addresses the question of whether noun incorporation is a syntactically base-generated or a syntactically derived construction. Focusing on so-called 'raised possessors' in West Greenlandic noun incorporating constructions and presenting some ...
van Geenhoven, V.
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Achieving Firm Ambidexterity Through Portfolio Management Meeting Conversations
ABSTRACT The ability to pursue exploration and exploitation simultaneously has been extensively examined within the ambidexterity framework in creativity and innovation research. However, whether and how firm portfolio management meetings enable ambidexterity has not yet been identified by analyzing managers' conversations during such sessions ...
Claus J. Varnes, John K. Christiansen
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Kā pao te tōrea: Opportunities to Improve Oral Health Services for Māori
ABSTRACT Objective Colonisation continues to shape Indigenous health outcomes today. Māori are the Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, and experience barriers to accessing care and a greater prevalence of dental caries, periodontal diseases, and tooth loss compared with non‐Māori.
J. Kuramaiki Lacey +3 more
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Noun-modifying clause constructions in Sino-Tibetan languages
After a short background introduction on Sino-Tibetan noun modifying clause constructions generally, this paper demonstrates, using naturally occurring data, that the Mandarin pre-head noun-modifying clausal construction is grammatically unlike a ...
Randy J. LaPolla, LaPolla, Randy J.
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Noun-modifying clauses in Cantonese
Whether relative clauses can be identified in Chinese is a recurrent question. This paper asks whether relative clauses are distinct from other noun-modifying clause constructions in Cantonese, one of many East Asian languages in which a noun can be ...
Stephen Matthews +3 more
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Abstract Language profoundly shapes how diabetes is perceived, experienced and managed, with the potential to perpetuate stigma or promote dignity and respect. This expert review, conducted by an international, multidisciplinary team, traces the evolution of the global diabetes #LanguageMatters movement and synthesises evidence on the effects of ...
Elizabeth Holmes‐Truscott +15 more
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Difference and the Liberation of Sufficient Reason
Abstract The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) holds that every event and entity can be explained by a sufficient reason or cause. Philosophers have long struggled with the question of the PSR's compatibility with freedom, for if what occurs or exists follows necessarily from its sufficient reason then it seems it could not have been otherwise ...
Louis Matheou
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Syntactic awareness as a mediator of reading–writing relations in young Chinese L2 learners
Abstract This longitudinal study examined the mediating role of syntactic awareness in reading–writing relations among young learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 177 students from non‐Chinese‐speaking backgrounds in Hong Kong were assessed annually from Grades 4 to 6 on word‐level literacy (character reading, spelling), sentence ...
Yu Ka Wong, Dongbo Zhang
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ABSTRACT This study examines multilingual practices in research interviews, focusing on English lexical insertions in Chinese‐language research interviews with teachers of Chinese in Australian secondary schools, and treating these code‐switches as analytically meaningful rather than incidental.
Chengwen Yuan, Tianwei Zhang, Gary Bonar
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