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Showing 1 to 20 of 384 for “"Clauses"”.
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Conditional Clauses
My MFA written thesis addresses work completed and shown in a thesis exhibition at West Virginia University as well as significant influences to my studio process. While my stated focus is printmaking, the work presented in the exhibition consisted of six sculptural and installation pieces. This …
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French relative clauses.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Adverbial subordinate clauses in English.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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Extraction from relative clauses in Swedish
… an empirical study of extraction from relative clauses (ERC) in Swedish, where a phrase outside a relative clause (RC) is related to a gap or a resumptive pronoun inside the RC. The aim of the study is to provide an analysis of Swedish ERC-sentences based on spontaneously produced examples, …
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Limitation clauses reducing or excluding liability
… to analyse grounds of validity of limitation clauses under both Maltese law and foreign law. Lack of uniformity in both local and foreign law highlights the importance of court judgments on the matter. Since previous studies on the area are minimal, this research project strives to pinpoint …
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Studies in Basque syntax: relative clauses.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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Mood Simplification: Adverbial Clauses in Heritage Spanish
Results show that position does not play a big role in recognizing and using the subjunctive. There are similarities between the monolingual and heritage speakers regarding familiarity with and use of the grammatical subjunctive. Heritage speakers seem to be more tolerant towards the ungrammatical …
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Differences Between Full and Reduced Relative Clauses
… they did not generalize to the center-embedded clauses tested here. The findings also raise the possibility that other effects may have been attributed to clause structure in previous experiments.
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The Determinants of Police-Specific Contract Clauses
… of twenty-eight police-specific contract clauses encompassing bargaining issues such as mandated equipment, manning, premium pay provisions, officer bill of rights, and residency rules. These specific contract clauses are viewed as central to police officers' feeling of physical and …
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The comprehension of main and embedded clauses
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1998.
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Superlative degree clauses : evidence from NPI licensing
This paper concerns itself with the superlative morpheme -est and its ability to license Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) such as any or ever, and in particular the compositional analysis of a puzzling type of utterance which incorporates these grammatical elements. Specifically, an embedded clause …
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Evaluation of Price Adjustment Clauses for Construction Materials
… materials, and the use of price adjustment clauses. The most common method that has been adopted at most state agencies is the use of price adjustment clauses. This study analyzes price adjustment clauses currently in use by United States Departments of Transportation to determine the …
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Incorporation of charterparty clauses into Bills of Lading
… Yet, it is an undeniable fact that incorporation clauses can make the holders subject to the charterparty provisions, even though the copies of these contracts are not shown to them. Nonetheless, since the early years, the issue of whether the charterparty terms are actually imported into a bill …
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The Syntax of Temporal Interpretation in Embedded Clauses
In this thesis I argue that verbs in embedded clauses are temporally interpreted by being bound to the temporal arguments of AspP and VP in the matrix clause. I build up this claim by proposing that (i) Reichenbach’s relation of association can be expressed in terms of Binding Theory in the syntax, …
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The Syntax of Temporal Interpretation in Embedded Clauses
In this thesis I argue that verbs in embedded clauses are temporally interpreted by being bound to the temporal arguments of AspP and VP in the matrix clause. I build up this claim by proposing that (i) Reichenbach’s relation of association can be expressed in terms of Binding Theory in the syntax, …
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Small Clauses in Swedish : Towards a Unified Account
… I offer a unified syntactic account of the small clauses involved in Swedish object-with-infinitive constructions (ECM), object predicative constructions and absolute constructions. In the present framework, this similarity is conceptually appealing and is also supported by empirical data. My …
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