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Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In this article, I examine practices of social detachment among West African migrants in urban Ghana. Faced with pressures arising from expectations of reciprocity, especially from kin back home, some migrants exert considerable efforts to break, if temporarily, with relations of mutual recognition and support, entering what I term migratory aloneness.
Michael Stasik
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Forgotten factors in the development of dependent clauses in Swedish as a second language [PDF]
, 2015 This paper is concerned with the acquisition of Swedish dependent clauses. In a longitudinal study of Belgian foreign language learners of Swedish, three factors were found to be of special relevance in the learner’s successive acquisition of dependent ...
Wijers, Martje
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Mood Selection in the Old Northumbrian Gloss to Durham MS A.iv.19
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The aim of this article is to examine the use of the subjunctive in the 10th‐century Old Northumbrian gloss to Durham, MS.A.iv.19. We assess whether there is evidence for a weakening of the indicative/subjunctive opposition, as has been argued for the earlier gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels, which was the work of the same glossator, Aldred of
Julia Fernández Cuesta +1 more
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.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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From ergativus absolutus to topic marking in Kiranti : a typological perspective [PDF]
, 2010 In many languages, clauses can be subordinated by means of case markers. For Bodic languages, a branch of Sino-Tibetan, Genetti (1986) has shown that the meaning of case markers on clauses is in most instances a natural extension of their function on ...
Bickel, Balthasar
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Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This literature review provides an overview of sociological perspectives on budgeting. The organizational relevance of budgeting has made it the subject of many perspectives and comprehensive reviews. However, the “niche” of sociological budgeting research deserves more attention as it helps us understand how and why budgets thrive—not ...
Kai DeMott
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A discourse-based approach to verb placement in early West-Germanic [PDF]
, 2006 The paper presents a novel approach to explaining word order variation in the early Germanic languages. Initial observations about verb placement as a device marking types of rhetorical relations made on data from Old High German (cf.
Petrova, Svetlana
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Co‐opted Boards and the Obfuscation of Financial Reports
Abacus, EarlyView.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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XML technology assisted research paper abstract writing [PDF]
, 2006 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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Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.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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