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Relative clause structures in the Rawang language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper discusses the types of relative clause and noun complement structures found in the Rawang language, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Myanmar, as well as their origin and uses, with data taken mainly from naturally occurring texts.
LaPolla, Randy J.
core  

Fundamental Challenges, Physical Implementations, and Integration Strategies for Ising Machines in Large‐Scale Optimization Tasks

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Ising machines are emerging as specialized hardware solvers for computationally hard optimization problems. This review examines five major platforms—digital CMOS, analog CMOS, emerging devices, coherent optics, and quantum systems—highlighting physics‐rooted advantages and shared bottlenecks in scalability and connectivity.
Hyunjun Lee, Joon Pyo Kim, Sanghyeon Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Should You Allow Your Agent to Become Your Competitor? On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We discuss a principal-agent model in which the principal has the opportunity to include a non-compete agreement in the employment contract. We show that not imposing such an agreement can be beneficial for the principal as the possibility to leave the ...
Kräkel, Matthias, Sliwka, Dirk
core   +5 more sources

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Noun complement clauses as referential modifiers

open access: yesGlossa, 2017
A number of recent analyses propose that so-called noun complement clauses should be analyzed as a type of relative clause. In this paper, I present a number of complications for any analysis that equates noun complement clauses to relative clauses, and ...
Carlos de Cuba
doaj   +2 more sources

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

D’où viennent les relatives ? [PDF]

open access: yesStudii de Lingvistica, 2023
Relative clauses (of the type … le livre qui est sur la table…, la lettre que tu as écrite…) appeared in Latin by a shift from the correlative structure quas litteras scripsisti, eae… ‘quelle lettre tu as écrite, elle…’ to litterae quas scripsisti ...
Pierre Le Goffic
doaj  

Out-of-focus encoding in Gur and Kwa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper investigates the structural properties of morphosyntactically marked focus constructions, focussing on the often neglected non-focal sentence part in African tone languages.
Fiedler, Ines, Schwarz, Anne
core  

Lexicalized structural priming in second language online sentence comprehension [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Prior work has shown intriguing differences between L1 and L2 comprehension priming of relative clauses. We investigated English reduced relative clause priming in Chinese adult learners of English.
Boland, Julie E.   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

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