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Publications of Mykolas Biržiška in Vilnius press at the beginning of the 20th century: features of the intellectual biography

Knygotyra, 2006
Mykolas Biržiška (1882–1962) was a prominent Lithuanian scholar and politician, a signatory of the Act of Independence (1918), a member of the Lithuanian Council (1917–1920), director of the first Lithuanian Gymnasium of Vytautas the Great in Vilnius ...
Mindaugas Kvietkauskas
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Main names of blueness in Polish and Lithuanian languages: prototypes and connotations.

The article presents the results of the contrastive semantic analysis of the main Polish and Lithuanian blueness names. The aim is to compare the collocability of color names with names of various objects and phenomena including the identification of the
Ušinskienė, Viktorija,
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Using Virtual Exchange for Teaching BELF Pragmatics: Developing an Online Negotiation Activity

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Teaching Business English (BE) is experiencing a paradigm shift to reflect the communicative needs of the global workplace. With the majority of interactions in English now taking place among multilingual speakers, there are increasing calls to integrate perspectives of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) into English language and ...
Miya Komori‐Glatz, Kaisa S. Pietikäinen   +1 more
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MICROTOPONYMY OF BELARUSIAN–LITHUANIAN–POLISH BORDERLANDS

, 2014
In the present report we will focus on the analysis of microtoponyms of Bobrovniki (Babrowniki) village and its surroundings. The village is in Ostrovets (Astravets) district (Republic of Belarus, Grodno (Hrodna) region), north-western part of which ...
Komara, Veronika
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Corporate Tax System Complexity and Investment Sensitivity to Tax Policy Changes

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Effective policymakers must balance the demands of formulating a corporate tax system that raises revenue and spurs economic activity (e.g., investment) while promoting a “level playing field” across firms. Balancing these tradeoffs has likely caused tax systems to become more complex over time, increasing firms’ difficulty in understanding ...
HARALD AMBERGER, JOHN GALLEMORE, JARON WILDE   +2 more
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Lithuanian resultatives in the context of neighbouring Slavic languages

Lietuvių Kalba, 2015
Resultative secondary predicates, or resultatives, express the state of a participant of an event as a result of the action denoted by a verb. On the other hand, resultatives bear a semantic relation to the main predicate as well.
Benita Riaubienė
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Beyond Manoeuvre Theory for European Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the debate about European defence in the light of the Russo‐Ukraine war and growing doubts about US commitment to Europe. It argues that Europeans need to fundamentally relearn the ability to imagine military strategy from a European viewpoint.
Lukas Mengelkamp, Sam Vincent
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Lithuanian language in secondary schools from 1906 to 1914

, 2016
Reikšminiai žodžiai: 20 amžius; Vidurinės mokyklos; Early twentieth century; Secondary schoolsThe decree of 1 (14) May 1905 of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II ‘On some operating restrictions in nine western provinces and the enforcement of the nominal ...
Mastianica, Olga
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The European Union in the Indo‐Pacific: Gauging the EU's Indo‐Pacific Strategy Across Eight Indo‐Pacific Locations

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a macro‐overview of the reception and effectiveness of the European Union's (EU) Indo‐Pacific Strategy (IPS) released in April 2021. Drawing on research conducted across eight Indo‐Pacific locations—Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand—the study involved 111 semi‐structured ...
Nicholas Ross Smith, Martin Holland
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The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania. International Diplomacy on the European Periphery (15th–18th Century). A Study of Peace Treaties Followed by Annotated Documents. Ottoman Empire and its Heritage [PDF]

Крымское историческое обозрение
This work is a translation from English of the first chapter “The language and preservation of documents” from the second part “A Study in the Crimean and Polish-Lithuanian diplomatics and diplomacy” of the scientific work “The Crimean Khanate and Poland-
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Leilya S. Seitkhalilova, Arzy Yu. Alieva   +2 more
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