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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"possessive"”.
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The possessive in Zulu
This study is a review of the Possessive in Zulu. Many grammarians that have dealt with the possessive in Zulu over—emphasised the structure of the possessive thus very often neglecting the meaning of the possessive in Zulu, and the so-called unmarked possessive. Different approaches to word …
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HUU-FA THESIS DAT?: A Syntactic Analysis of Possessive Jamaican Creole Possessive WH-elements
<p>This thesis discusses the differences between the Jamaican Creole expressions huu-fa and fi-huu. Jamaican Creole is a language that was born from a combination of the lexifier language English and the substrate language Twi, therefore it is reasonable to check whether the features of JC were …
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Possessive Investment: California, 209 and the Reconstruction of Racist Educational *Policy
"This study is concerned with the development of educational policy in the State of California. The California Civil Rights Initiative (Proposition 209), as anti-affirmative action legislation, was composed and implemented with the intent to limit the access of African-American and Latino/a …
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Steps Toward Healing from the Possessive Other: The Vital Role of Fantastical Literature in Trauma Theory
<p>Fantastical narratives such as fairy tales and magical realist literature utilizes fantastic and intangible spaces to unpack that which is often beyond the limitations imposed on our understanding by reality: the stunting experience of individual and generational traumas. This study aims to …
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The Genitive Ratio and its Applications
… concrete or abstract. English has two genitive (possessive) constructions: possessive-s (the boy's head) and possessive-of (the head of the boy). There is compelling evidence that preference for possessive-s is strongly influenced by the possessor's animacy. A corpus analysis that counts each …
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K posesivitě v českém znakovém jazyce
The thesis describes the ways of expressing possessiveness in Czech sign language, using a replication of the research described in Possessive and existential constructions in sign languages (Zeshan - Perniss, 2008), which is a part of a series formulating the first findings concerning the typology …
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The syntax of the Arabic determiner phrase
… existence of an indefinite article as well as a possessive determiner that heads the genitive phrase. A new analysis of agreement within DP is presented, as well as an argument against the construct state analysis and analyses of other related issues.</p>
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"Mine" or "Ours": Property and Moral Reasoning
… to property ownership norms, humanism, and possessive individualism. Following the psychological research of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg, participants were also asked to express moral judgments on two hypothetical moral dilemmas, and their responses were coded according to …
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Pronouns, dialect and discourse: A socio-pragmatic account of children's language in Teeside
… focuses on three salient pronominal features: possessive `me'; singular `us'; and right dislocated pronoun tags. Children in both schools use all of these variants (though with different frequencies) in concert with other variants (such as `standard' `my' for the possessive singular and …
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White Terror, Canada's Indian Residential Schools, and the Colonial Present: from Law Towards a Pedagogy of Recognition
… The old European political rationality of “possessive individualism,” the historical rationale for not only capitalist accumulation but modern liberal law, government, and sovereignty, is especially useful for tracing interconnections (symbolic and material) among sites within a colonial …
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A grammar of the Neverver language of Malakula (Vanuatu)
… pronouns, and a set of pronominal-nouns. Possessive constructions suggest an earlier system based on the semantic notion of alienability; today constructions are formed by a combination of semantic and phonological properties. The nominal modifying particle is employed in one type of …
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Satire and Sympathy in American Psycho
… argue thatPatrick is essentially a victim of the possessive, technologically obsessed, patriarchal culture, ignored by others despite his cries for attention. In addition, I analyze specific passages in order to determine whether or not the novel can provoke sympathy for Patrickfrom the reader. …
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We know where you belong at: Institutions and Marginalized Bodies in the Literature of Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty
… in the community, as well as the threatening and possessive male gaze. Through each work, we see the effects of surveillance and the threat of institutionalization on marginalized bodies.
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Qhatuyki Store modelo de negocio para pequeños distritos urbanos
… Spanish means market) with the second-person possessive suffix yki (Your Market) and the English word Store, that in the context of the Internet it is directly associated with an e-commerce or electronic commerce establishment. What Qhatuyki Store offers to the user, bilingual in a significant …
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The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building
… social relations modeled on market exchange and possessive individualism. Revealing the ideological and institutional foundations of today’s construction industry, the dissertation shows how nineteenth-century thinking about contract, freedom, value, and risk shaped the architectural building …
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A Study of Friendship Attitudes of Children Who Participate in Gifted Programs in the Public Schools
… classroom behaviors, fifth graders had more possessive attitudes toward a few friends, and sixth graders were interested in becoming more like their peer groups. This desire to fit in often conflicts with the need to be individuals.
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Psychological Ownership of Simple Jobs: The Effect of Job Crafting
… focused on the specific dimensions of work and possessive behaviors and their impact on employees in complex jobs. This study takes a new path by examining how psychological ownership can be increased for a previously unexamined group, employees in simple (i.e., routine and repetitive) jobs. …
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N400 But No P600 With Semantic Anomalies
… or repair. I contrasted semantic and syntactic possessive violations. The semantic violation conditions (i.e. <em>The mother borrowed the <strong>car’s daughter</strong> for work yesterday</em>), morphosyntactic violations (i.e. <em>The mother borrowed the <strong>daughter car</strong> for work …
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Burial Practices in Transition: A study of the cultural and religious cohesion of Early Medieval Europe
… objects, to more of an object itself, devoid of possessive agency. Finally, I use globalisation and diffusion theory to argue that this change was evidence of strong cultural and religious connections across early medieval Europe, which made the rapid transmission of cultural practices possible.
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Rede of Reeds: Land and Labour in Rural Norfolk
… sense intersects with a prevailing culture of possessive individualism, creating a fragmented society in the Park, wracked by controversies over management. Chapter 5 examines bureaucracy in Broadland - frequently cast as the very antithesis of common sense. In the conclusion, we return to the …
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