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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Older people's preference is to age in place. Optimizing the delivery of high‐quality home‐based primary care for this growing population is a priority for healthcare systems worldwide. Provision of primary care is essential to support the health and wellbeing of the older population, yet there is a lack of high‐quality evidence ...
Gillian E. Caughey +17 more
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An intervention account of the distribution of main clause phenomena: Evidence from ellipsis [PDF]
, 2012 Based on an examination of some asymmetries between VP ellipsis and VP fronting, this paper argues for an intervention approach and against a truncation approach to the distribution of main clause phenomena in adverbial clauses and, by extension, in ...
Authier, J. Marc, Haegeman, Liliane
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Subliminal wh-islands in brazilian Portuguese and the consequenceS for Syntactic theory
Revista da ABRALIN, 2014 Categorical acceptability judgments form an important and productive heuristic that provides a substantial body of data to theoretical linguists. Despite its popularity, however, they might not always provide an accurate representation of the acceptability facts, especially when it concerns complex patterns of judgments across a range of different ...
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Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) exhibits exceptional tolerance to infertile soils and contains abundant cyanogenic glucosides (CGs). Previous research has indicated that CGs can serve as a significant reservoir of organic nitrogen in plants.
Weitao Mai +10 more
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Scrambling in German and Japanese: adjunction versus multiple specifiers [PDF]
, 2002 This paper argues that short (clause-internal) scrambling to a pre-subject position has A properties in Japanese but A'-properties in German, while long scrambling (scrambling across sentence boundaries) from finite clauses, which is possible in Japanese
Grewendorf, Günther, Sabel, Joachim
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A Natural LTR Retrotransposon Insertion in the Promoter of GhNAC140‐Dt Boosts Cotton Lint Yield
Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transposable elements (TEs) are fundamental drivers of crop evolution and domestication. Whereas the underlying mechanisms of TE‐mediated gene activation remain poorly understood. Lint percentage is an important yield component in cotton. Here, we report a retrotransposon insertion in the promoter of GhNAC140‐Dt, a secondary wall NAC encoding ...
Yujia Yu +9 more
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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Tree Adjoining Grammar at the Interfaces [PDF]
, 2014 This thesis constitutes an exploration of the applications of tree adjoining grammar (TAG) to natural language syntax. Perhaps more than any of its major competitors such as HPSG and LFG, however, TAG has never strayed too far from the guiding principles
Longenbaugh, Nicholas Steven
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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Semantic Reconstruction and the Interpretation of Chains [PDF]
, 2019 This paper explains three known constraints on scope reconstruction – reconstruction is blocked into wh-islands, after remnant movement, and after countercyclic merge – by postulating an underlying condition on semantic reconstruction, which follows ...
Ruys, E. G.
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