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Fanonian “Radical Empathy” for a Politics of Ethics: Toward a Sociolinguistics of Potentiality
ABSTRACT This contribution takes up the Dialogue's question of the politics of ethics in sociolinguistics from a Fanonian perspective. Taking Sweden as an illustrative case of Euro‐Northern de/recolonization, it argues that ostensibly emancipatory discourses of liberal humanist inclusion can remain bound to colonial and racializing formations of ...
Christopher Stroud
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Water and Artisanal and Small‐Scale Gold Mining: A Review of the Literature
This paper reviews the relationships between artisanal and small‐scale gold mining (ASGM) and water. We show the variegated impacts ASGM has on water and, thus, socio‐ecological systems and health. We conclude by identifying gaps in the scholarship.
Heidi Hausermann +3 more
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On the Syntax of Mandarin Sluicing: a Cleft Approach [PDF]
This dissertation investigates the derivation of sluicing in Mandarin Chinese. Sluicing refers to clausal ellipsis in wh-questions that only leaves a wh-phrase.
Yin, Boyan
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Graphical Abstract Abstract Effective sediment management in reservoir–river coupled systems remains a global challenge due to the conflicting objectives of sediment evacuation from reservoirs and deposition reduction in downstream reaches. This study proposed a physics‐based modeling framework oriented to a reservoir–river coupled system, which ...
Junqiang Xia +7 more
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Sprouting: A Key to Unifying Japanese Sluicing
There are two subtypes of sluicing, merger and sprouting. This paper investigates the structure of matrix sprouting in Japanese, which has not been studied in literature.
Fujiwara, Yoshiki
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THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA
Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
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Sinking peatlands: Optimal control of subsidence
Abstract Land subsidence threatens the living conditions of about 1.2 billion people worldwide in deltaic regions characterized by soft top soil. Economic activity in these areas requires lowering groundwater levels to keep the land sufficiently dry, which leaves future generations worse off by accelerating subsidence and increasing future costs.
Suphi Sen +2 more
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The paper shows that in various sluicing types, the wh-phrase in the sluicing sentence as well as its relatum in the antecedent clause must be F-marked, and it explains this observation with Schwarzschild's (1999) and Merchant's (1999) focus theory ...
Schwabe, Kerstin
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On the overlapping discourse functions of Spanish ‘cómo que’ and French ‘comment ça’ interrogatives
We present evidence for an overlap in the discourse functions of Spanish cómo que XP ‘how thatcomplementizer’ and French comment ça ∅/XP ‘how thatdemonstrative’ interrogatives.
Fliessbach Jan, Brunetti Lisa, Yoo Hiyon
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How About Ellipsis?: Young Children's Subject Bias in Interpreting Ambiguous “How About” Questions
ABSTRACT Ellipsis refers to the omission of words or phrases, requiring listeners to fill in the missing elements from earlier in the conversation. Ambiguity in elliptical questions, such as “How about X,” has received little attention in research on children's testimony.
Breanne E. Wylie +3 more
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