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Adverbial clauses and adverbial concord [PDF]
This paper speculates that the merge site of an adverbial clause, i.e. its external syntax, is determined by its derivational history, i.e. its internal syntax.
Endo, Yoshio, Haegeman, Liliane
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The Linnaean revolution – A history of the Natural System
Abstract A very brief history of the Natural System (NS) is presented, focusing on angiosperms. The account is divided into four parts. The first, “Setting the stage”, gives an outline of my understanding of evolutionary ontology and how this reflects on taxonomy.
Magnus Lidén
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ABSTRACT This study explored how minoritized youth‐guided experiences as facilitators of science outreach activities in their community can become a powerful pathway to developing their science capital. The educational setting was the Gap‐Year Program run by Alrowad for Science and Technology.
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Abstract Despite decades of curricular change and the introduction of language pedagogies emphasising meaning and communication, teachers of English in Chilean schools still tend to favour traditional methods and focus largely on discrete language. Using data from stimulated recalls, interviews and observations with preservice teachers, interviews with
Luis Carabantes
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Forgotten factors in the development of dependent clauses in Swedish as a second language [PDF]
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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Abstract Intersectional theory recognises inequity is rarely the result of one social identity; social identities, and their interaction with context and power relations, offer some protective factors, while marginalises others. Taking an intersectional approach to social policy has the potential to provide deeper insights in terms of identifying and ...
Shona Bates, Rosemary Kayess, Ilan Katz
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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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On the Borders of Subordination: Signaling Relative Clauses in Spoken German
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp.
Stephan Schuetze-Coburn
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Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration
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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From ergativus absolutus to topic marking in Kiranti : a typological perspective [PDF]
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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