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Subordination and Relativization in Early Indo-European
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp.
G. Holland
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe+2 more
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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MAKING MOTILITY: Sociospatial Mobility as Capital
Abstract ‘Motility’ has become a highly influential concept in global mobility and migration studies in the two decades since it emerged in this journal. The call to centralize sociospatial mobility as a form of individual capital gave motility a particular and enduring significance in the wider mobilities turn.
Niall Cunningham
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A usage based approach into the acquisition of relative clauses [PDF]
: Previous research has shown that cross-linguistically relative clauses are acquired late and are considered as a signal of linguistic complexity. This study adapts a usage-based account of relative clause acquisition in Turkish. A corpus based on three
Altan, Aslı, Altinkamis, Feyza
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Co‐opted Boards and the Obfuscation of Financial Reports
This study investigates the relationship between board co‐option and the obfuscation of financial disclosures in a comprehensive sample of 9,620 10‐K filings by 1,076 US‐listed firms between 1996 and 2018. Our empirical results are consistent with our hypotheses that board co‐option partly explains the obfuscation of financial reports.
Abongeh A. Tunyi+3 more
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Principle Based Semantics for HPSG
The paper presents a constraint based semantic formalism for HPSG. The advantages of the formlism are shown with respect to a grammar for a fragment of German that deals with (i) quantifier scope ambiguities triggered by scrambling and/or movement and ...
Frank, A., Reyle, U.
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XML technology assisted research paper abstract writing [PDF]
iven its briefness, inherent complexity and massive and critical use in scientific discourse, the research paper abstract (RP A) is a text type particularly interesting for both linguistic modelling (writing and reading) and automatic processing ...
Castel, Víctor M.
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ABSTRACT Accounting researchers have produced a large quantity of high‐quality goal setting research. This paper uses the high performance cycle as a framework for classifying goal setting research and reviews research from leading accounting journals.
Greg Richins
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