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Pauses Reflecting the Processing of Syntactic Units in Monolingual Text Production and Translation

open access: yesHermes, 2010
This study explores how the process of translating relates to other types of writing processes by comparing pause lengths preceding syntactic units (words, phrases and clauses) in two types of writing task, a monolingual text production and a translation.
Sini Immonen, Jukka Mäkisalo
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Anticausatives with passives of subordinate intransitive clauses in Xitsonga

open access: yesStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019
Literature shows that anticausatives have been well investigated in European languages such as English, German, and Greek. However, this is not the case with African languages, particularly Bantu languages such as Xitsonga.
Hlungwani, Madala Crous
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Emergence of a subordinate construction in a sign language: Intonation ploughs the field for morphosyntax

open access: yesGlossa, 2022
A central question in historical linguistics is how subordination emerges. Many linguists have hypothesized that diachronically subordinate constructions start off with intonational signals, and that these precede morphosyntactic markers of subordination
Svetlana Dachkovsky
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Who Qualifies to Assure? The Professional and Managerial Capture of Sustainability Assurance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the qualification of assurors in sustainability and environmental reporting assurance (SERA) is constructed and why it remains fiercely contested. Drawing on actor–network theory (ANT) and qualitative evidence from regulators, NGOs, assurors and reporting companies in India, we conceptualise ‘qualification’ as a ...
Flavia Rodricks   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Korelativní spojení řídící a vedlejší věty

open access: yesČeský jazyk a literatura
A classification of these subordinate clauses is provided according to the part of speech of the correlation expression, which can be a demonstrative pronoun (e.g., Mluvil o tom, že má doma desky Beatles [He talked about the fact that he had Beatles ...
Josef Štěpán
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An Examination of the Letter "Vav" as a Stylistic Indicator and a Meaning-building Phenomenon between a Causal Sentence and its Purpose in the Holy Quran [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های ترجمه در زبان و ادبیات عربی, 2015
In Arabic, the letter “vav” (meaning and) is normally not used to indicate a causal function between a main clause and a subordinate clause of purpose beginning with “causal Lam Mansoub” and a present verb.
Jalal Marami, Fatemeh Beiglari
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Anchoring Corporate Climate Action: Credible Commitments and the Internal Governance of Private Standard‐Setters

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate climate commitments depend partly on the credibility of the institutions that define and validate them. This article examines the Science Based Targets initiative as a key private standard‐setter in polycentric climate governance.
Marybel Perez, Alejandro Agafonow
wiley   +1 more source

The adjectival subordinate clause in the production of meaning in the text: the prospect of Portuguese textbooks in high school

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2016
This paper studies how Portuguese textbooks of high school, approved by the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático-2015, approach the teaching of adjectival subordinate clause.
Aliana Lopes Câmara
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Some subordinate clause constructions in Modern German, Swedish, and English. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This study is an examination of subordinate clause constructions, focusing in particular on dass-clauses in German, and where necessary their Swedish and English equivalents.
Fennell, Barbara Anne.
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From Nonfinancial Reporting to Management Control: A GRI‐Based Sustainability Balanced Scorecard

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The integration of sustainability into strategic management systems has shifted from a reporting‐oriented exercise to a challenge of implementation, control, and accountability. Although the SBSC is widely acknowledged as a suitable framework to embed environmental and social objectives into strategy execution, its practical application ...
Piedad Ortiz‐Fernández   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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