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Tseltal clause structure
… investigated involves non-finite complement clauses. This portion of the thesis examines the relationship between case opacity, agreement, and Person Case Constraint (PCC). It is argued that an ergative language like Tseltal exhibits object-to-subject raising, the counterpart to …
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The clause structure of Turaif Arabic
In this dissertation, I investigate the clause structure of Turaif Arabic, an undocumented dialect, a dialect that is spoken in the northern region of Saudi Arabia. I present a description and analysis of the three main clauses SVO, VOS, and VOS. I show that one order may have different …
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The social clause: reality or utopia
… during my one year in South Africa. The Social Clause turned out to be the perfect issue for my dissertation because it embraced three of the four courses I followed • Human rights, with the human side that underlies the issue; • Labour Law, because productivity is increasingly dictating labour …
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Clause chaining, switch reference and coordination
… ergative is assigned to the subject of INFL-less clauses. Importantly, the particles I take to instantiated INFL in Kisedje don't have tense semantics, but rather modal semantics. Investigating other properties of this modal INFL in Klsedje, I can determine the fine structure of its clause. This …
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Recontruction of standard contract clause in sharia contract law: A study on standard contract clause at BTN Sharia
… is parallel with the standard contract clause that facilitates the contract drafter. In its development, the sharia agencies also use standard contract clause for transaction. Although standard contract clause has put the sharia elements in it, but there are some weaknesses, either in …
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Clause structure, agreement and case in Gitksan
This dissertation proposes an analysis of certain aspects of the syntax and morphology of Gitksan, a Tsimshianic language of northwestern British Columbia. In particular, the goal of the dissertation is to show that, despite claims and surface appearances to the contrary, the structure of a Gitksan …
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Facultative reinsurance and the full reinsurance clause
The Full Reinsurance clause by which a reinsurer agrees to be bound by the same terms and conditions as the original policy and commits to follow the reinsured’s settlements is widely used in London Market facultative reinsurance contracts. In most disputes the outcome depends upon resolving the …
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A tagmemic analysis of Swahili clause structure
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Linguistics and Oriental and African Languages, 1968
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A study of the Navajo relative clause.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1973. M.S.
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Effects of embedded pronouns on relative clause processing
Difficulties with object relative clauses (ORC), as compared to subject relative clauses (SR), are widely attested across different languages, both in adults and in children. This SR-ORC asymmetry is reduced, or even eliminated, when the embedded constituent in the ORC is a pronoun, rather than a …
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Effects of Some Clause Variables on Memory-Scanning
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T22:32:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7511626.PDF: 2939371 bytes, checksum: cd2a0895c86b30bef4876856b5cf6b77 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Solving optimal satisfiability problems through clause-directed A*
… by introducing a tightly coupled approach, Clause-directed A * (CIA *). ClA* simultaneously directs the search towards assignments that are feasible and optimal. First, satisfiability is generalized to state logic by unifying the DPLL satisfiability procedure with forward checking. Second, …
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Relative clause processing in Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese
… experiments in Japanese using main/embedded clause ambiguities are reported in support of this claim. The second part of the dissertation (Chapters 2, 3 and 4) uses a well-established generalization as a starting point, namely, that a modifying phrase is preferentially attached to the closest …
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Indecent Traffic: Shifting Understandings of the U.S. Commerce Clause
This paper focuses on the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution and explores how its scope has expanded throughout history. This paper, organized chronologically, evaluates the alterations to the scope of the Commerce Clause through the American Industrial Revolution, anti-vice and purity …
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The syntax and semantics of clause-typing in Plains Cree
This thesis proposes that there are two kinds of clauses: indexical clauses, which are evaluated with respect to the speech situation; and anaphoric clauses, which are evaluated with respect to a contextually-given (anaphoric) situation. Empirical motivation for this claim comes from the …
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Major Old High German clause structures in Isidor and Tatian
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Linguistics and Oriental and African Languages, 1969
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The Clause Structure of the Shimaore Dialect of Comorian (Bantu)
… not relying on an agreement phrase in the clause structure of the language, and using an approach to agreement similar to that of Henderson (2006). In addressing the order of functional projections in Shimaore, I draw on work by Cinque (1999) and Julien (2002), among others. In addition to …
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Word Order, Focus, and Clause Linking in Greek Tragic Poetry
… elements (subject, verb, and object) within the clause, the emphatic position at the start of the clause, and the structure of inter-clausal linking. It is argued that these three features, usually considered separately, are interdependent, and that intra-clausal word order is directly related to …
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Analysis of school board policies relating to the Establishment Clause
… system's interpretation of the Establishment Clause. Twenty-four federal district, circuit and Supreme Court cases were analyzed to determine the court's interpretation of the Establishment Clause as it relates to the public schools. Twenty-one criteria were developed from this analysis and …
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