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Focus Fronting in a Language with In Situ Marking: The Case of Mǝ̀dʉ́mbà
LanguagesThis paper discusses the structural realisation of contrastive focus in the Grassfields Bantu language Bamileke Mǝ̀dʉ́mbà, yet another language with grammatically optional focus fronting.
Malte Zimmermann, Constantine Kouankem
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Experimentally investigating the production of additive presupposition triggers [PDF]
, 2022 This study investigates under which circumstances speakers produce additive presupposition triggers such as too to understand what contexts (if any) necessitate their presence and how sensitive they are to discourse factors. Additives have been argued to be obligatory (in affirmative sentences) as soon as their presupposition is met in the context.
Lorson, Alex +2 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the environmental, social and governance (ESG) scoring methodologies used by Bloomberg and S&P Global through the lens of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It addresses a notable gap in the literature by identifying the underlying factors that shape ESG scores and providing practical insights for companies seeking to ...
Philipe Balan +4 more
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The PCDID Approach to Treatment Effects Estimation: A Further Investigation
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the present paper, we study the so‐called “PCDID” approach to treatment effects estimation in panels with interactive effects where the factors represent trends whose effect need not be parallel across the cross‐sectional units. Our interest in this step‐wise approach originates with the observation that the interactive effects are ignored ...
Tilman Bretschneider, Joakim Westerlund
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Don't interpret focus : why a presuppositional account of focus fails, and how a presuppositional account of givenness works [PDF]
, 2009 This paper advances a purely presuppositional analysis of intonation. I first show that a inspiring recent article by Geurts and van der Sandt (Theoretical Linguistics, 2004) that pursues the same goal cannot account for multiple foci.
Sauerland, Uli
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Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez +1 more
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AI-LinguisticaThis paper aims to provide a comparison between texts produced by French and Italian politicians on polarizing issues, such as immigration and the European Union, and their chatbot counterparts created with ChatGPT 3.5.
Davide Garassino +3 more
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The Presuppositions of Soft Triggers are Obligatory Scalar Implicatures [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 2014 Presupposition triggers can be divided in two groups, ‘soft’ and ‘hard,’ based on whether the presuppositions they give rise to are easily defeasible and whether they project uniformly in quantificational sentences (Abusch 2002, 2010, Charlow 2009). Recently, two ideas have been put forward in the literature in connection to this problem.
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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of market.
Andrew Allison +2 more
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The influence of tense in adverbial quantification [PDF]
, 2004 We argue that there is a crucial difference between determiner and adverbial quantification. Following Herburger [2000] and von Fintel [1994], we assume that determiner quantifiers quantify over individuals and adverbial quantifiers over eventualities ...
Endriss, Cornelia, Hinterwimmer, Stefan
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