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Optionality in animal communication: a novel framework for examining the evolution of arbitrariness. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc, 2022 A critical feature of language is that the form of words need not bear any perceptual similarity to their function – these relationships can be ‘arbitrary’.
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Share buybacks: a theoretical exploration of genetic algorithms and mathematical optionality [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2023 This article exclusively formulates and presents three innovative hypotheses related to the execution of share buybacks, employing Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and mathematical optimization techniques.
Joerg Osterrieder, Joerg Osterrieder
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Optionality in the Expression of Indefiniteness: A Pilot Study on Piacentine
Languages, 2022 Optionality is an issue within the minimalist theory of language, in which the principle of the “last resort” does not admit competing options to express the same meaning.
Luca Molinari
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Variation and optionality in clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish
Isogloss, 2015 Since Cinque’s (2006:31-32) four-way typology of languages in terms of clitic climbing (CC, herein), those in which CC displays optionality, such as Argentinean Spanish (ArgSp, herein), remain poorly understood. This paper aims to address this need. Here,
Ioanna Sitaridou +2 more
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Optionality in Australian Football League draftee contracts. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Though player drafts have commonly been utilised to equitably disperse amateur talent and avoid bidding wars, often they have also been accused of creating a monopsony labour market which restricts player movement.
Jemuel Chandrakumaran +3 more
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Unveiling DOM optionality in Central Catalan
IsoglossThis paper presents data indicative of optionality in acceptance and processing of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in 27 adult bilinguals of central Catalan-Spanish across two tasks: Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) and Self-Paced Reading (SPR). Each
Eloi Puig-Mayenco, Tiffany Judy
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French wh-in-situ Questions and Syntactic Optionality: Evidence from Three Data Types
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2006 The aim of this paper is to corroborate the assumption of syntactic optionality for French wh-questions. In terms of a broader basis of evidence three different data types are utilized: Firstly, a qualitative interview approach suggests that wh-in-situ ...
Adli Aria
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IsoglossThe following paper considers the potential for optionality of anaphoric null objects in two early Romance languages: Old French and Old Tuscan. In both languages, anaphoric objects can be omitted in different syntactic contexts (e.g., in coordination ...
Prudence de Pontbriand
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Optionality of 的 De in Chinese Possessive Structures: A Quantitative Study
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2022 In this paper, we explore quantitative tools to investigate the optionality with respect to the presence of the possessive marker 돨 de in alienable and inalienable constructions in Chinese. We explore three models to account for this optionality.
Giuseppe Samo, Fuzhen Si
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Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2022 We investigated the effect of optionality on the acquisition of new/given markers, with a special focus on grammaticalization as a stage of optional use of the emerging form. To this end, we conducted a narrative-elicitation task with 5-year-old children
Vishakha Shukla +2 more
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