A discourse-based approach to verb placement in early West-Germanic [PDF]
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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From Theatre to Transformation: Learning, Action, and Diffusion for SDG2 in Cambodia
ABSTRACT The arts are envisioned as able to help address the longstanding ‘implementation gap’ between research and realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For SDG2 (Zero Hunger), Forum Theatre offers a participatory alternative to top‐down interventions, yet its impacts have not been evaluated using rigorous, mixed‐methods that are ...
Brian R. Cook +6 more
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A Study of Direct Speech Complementation with Embedding Verbs: Collostructional Analysis
Non-relational verbs, as opposed to relational ones, cannot replace their complement clause with a complex nominal, meaning that they do not denote a proposition, as the Relational Analysis states. However, direct speech seems to be a proper replacement
Aroa Orrequia-Barea
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ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of green transformational leadership, green human resource management, and pro‐environmental behavior on sustainable performance. Despite the increasing emphasis on environmental sustainability, the mechanisms through which organizational practices translate into sustainable outcomes remain insufficiently ...
Sharifa Khalid. Mousa +2 more
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Fair Markets and Resilient Supply Chains: Designing Sustainable Intermediation for Rural Communities
ABSTRACT Agriculture in Ecuador's communes faces significant economic, social, and environmental challenges, intensified by supply chains dominated by traditional intermediaries. The lack of context‐specific sustainability studies further increases the vulnerability of smallholders.
Jacqueline del Rocío Bacilio Bejeguen +3 more
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Focus or narrative constructions? : Morphosyntactically marked focus constructions in some Gur and Kwa languages [PDF]
0. Introduction 1. Observations concerning the structure of morphosyntactically marked focus constructions 1.1 First observation: SF vs. NSF asymmetry 1.2 Second observation: NSF-NAR parallelism 1.3 Affirmative ex-situ focus constructions (SF, NSF), and ...
Fiedler, Ines, Schwarz, Anne
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Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys
Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
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It's Not You, It's the System: Women Professors in TESOL and the Persistence of Gender Bias
Abstract Although progress has been made with respect to the role and position of women in academia, overt and covert discrimination as well as structural and systemic bias persist. In this article, we report on research conducted with 14 women professors from 10 different countries to explore to what extent these issues affect women professors in ...
Sarah Mercer +3 more
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The Vocabulary of Town-Twinning: A Corpus Analysis of the Press in Soviet Karelia (1960s–1980s)
Introduction. The study of the functions of town-twinning city terminology in the regional press of the Soviet period constitutes a relevant scholarly issue.
Ksenia M. Bogacheva
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