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Many of us know about stretch reflexes from the doctor's office, when a physician taps the tendon near our kneecap to elicit a quick knee extension. This procedure is used as a diagnostic tool to determine the integrity of the spinal cord and the extension response it elicits may seem otherwise useless. In fact, the tendon tap taps into one aspect of a
Reschechtko, Sasha +1 more
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We investigate the sources of betting constructions, and specifically their predicates. The notion of risking something of value on an outcome is a complex one. Culturally, some degree of disposability of property is required. The concept is nevertheless
Hollmann, Willem +2 more
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Dieser Artikel untersucht den Zusammenhang von Denken und Reflexion aus einer beratungs- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Wichtige Vertreter in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Denktradition sind der Sozialphilosoph John Dewey, der Soziologe ...
Anna Dumpe
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The term reflexive is applied by traditional grammarians to an event or situation that “reflects” (“rebounds”) upon its initiator, typically when some internal argument of the predicate co-refers with its subject (e.g., English John pinched himself or John saw himself in the mirror).
Zribi-Hertz, Anne, Cohen, Dana
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Reflexivity and adjustment strategies at the interfaces
I argue in this work that Reinhart & Reuland’s (1993) conditions A and B hold for Spanish. I provide evidence supporting the hypothesis that this language makes use of both SE and SELF-anaphors.
Ismael Teomiro
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Students make a plan: understanding student agency in constraining conditions [PDF]
Drawing on Archer’s perspectives on the agency / structure relationship, this paper explains situations where students in varied, challenging circumstances find ways to negotiate difficult conditions.
Brown, Cheryl +2 more
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Referential Dependencies in Turkish: Some Novel Arguments on the Binding of Kendisi, O and Pro
The Turkish reflexive kendisi (self-3SG.POSS) deviates from Principle A of the Binding Theory and from the Minimalist movement approaches to referential dependencies.
Nazik DİNÇTOPAL DENİZ
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Reflex seizures (RS) are epileptic events that are objectively and consistently elicited in response to a specific afferent stimulus or by an activity of the patient. The specific stimulus can be a variety of heterogenous intrinsic or extrinsic factors, ranging from the simple to the complex, such as flashing lights or reading a book.
Hanif, Samrina, Musick, Shane T
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Faroese long-distance reflexives face off against Icelandic long-distance reflexives
Long-distance reflexives (LDRs) in Faroese are often compared to those in Icelandic, and are even considered to have the same distribution (Thráinsson et al., 2004). In this paper I evaluate the extent to which this is true.
Tania E. Strahan
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On how 'middle' plus 'associative/reciprocal' became 'passive' in the Bantu A70 languages [PDF]
In this paper we show that the Bantu A70 languages did not preserve the passive morpheme inherited from Proto-Bantu (PB), but developed a new suffix. It is a morpheme that is compound in origin, consisting of two verbal derivation suffixes which still ...
Bostoen, Koen, Nzang-Bie, Yolande
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