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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 This paper offers an analysis of a robustly attested semantic change in which progressive markers “spontaneously” emerge in languages, become entrenched in the grammatical system, and diachronically generalize by turning into imperfective ...
Ashwini Deo
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Bridging Global Green HRM and Local Behavior: The Supervisory Role in MNE Subsidiaries
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Multinational enterprises (MNEs) increasingly deploy global Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices to drive environmental sustainability across geographically dispersed subsidiaries. However, translating these standardized practices into local employee green behavior presents significant implementation challenges, particularly in ...
Jeeyoon Jeong, DuckJung Shin, Wanyun Tai
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Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2012 Counterfactual attitudes like imagining, dreaming, and wishing create a problem for the standard formal semantic theory of de re attitude ascriptions. I show how the problem can be avoided if we represent an agent's attitudinal possibilities using "multi-
Dilip Ninan
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Bridging Academic Research and Business Practices at the Crossroad of Circular Economy and the SDGs
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The global shift toward sustainability has amplified interest in the Circular Economy, which aims to optimize resource use and minimize waste. In parallel, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a universal framework for addressing social, environmental, and economic challenges.
Corentin Juin, Andrea Nicolodi
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 This paper introduces and analyzes chimerical conditionals, a class of conditionals that are puzzling vis-à-vis the distinction between so-called 'biscuit' and hypothetical conditionals.
Itamar Francez
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Energy Landscapes in Chemical Reactions and Transport
ChemPhysChem, Volume 26, Issue 6, March 15, 2025.Kinetics/dynamics of chemical reactivity and transport of chemical species in a solid are both determined by the energy landscape in which they take place. Discussing common grounds but also distinct differences may help in advancing the understanding in both fields.
Karl‐Michael Weitzel
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Embedded implicatures observed: a comment on Geurts and Pouscoulous (2009)
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 Conventionalist theories of scalar implicature differ from other accounts in that they predict strengthening of embedded scalar terms. Geurts and Pouscoulous (2009) argue that experimental support for this prediction is largely based on sentence ...
Charles Clifton, Chad Dube
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The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This contribution critically analyses the main international educational frameworks for teachers' digital competence, highlighting both critical issues and potential in relation to their professional development and the need to update school curricula.
Daniela Marzano +3 more
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Dependent indefinites and their post-suppositions
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 This paper presents an analysis of a new scope puzzle that arises through the interaction of two lesser-studied constructions, dependent indefinites and verbal pluractionality.
Robert Henderson
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Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.A scientometric analysis of 2449 journal articles and a comprehensive review of 336 papers were conducted, discussing and identifying challenges and research gaps in rockburst prediction and prevention and proposing an ontology‐based framework for better decision‐making in underground excavations. Abstract With underground engineering projects becoming
Hongchuan Yan +6 more
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