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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"typological theory"”.
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Speech in space and time: Contact, change and diffusion in medieval Norway
… and geostatistics to test the sociolinguistic typological theory put forward by Peter Trudgill on the history of Norwegian. The theory includes several effects of societal factors on language change. Most discussed is the proposal that ‘intensive’ language contact causes simplification of …
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Word order in ancient Greek: VSO, SVO, SOV, or all of the above?
… syntax which are based on language typology theory are likewise faulty because it can be demonstrated that Greek exhibits syntactic behaviour which contradicts the predicted syntactic behaviour of any given type of language. Furthermore, many of the typology studies are based on an …
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Ruling with Rules: Electoral Institutions and Authoritarian Resilience in the Middle East
… from the Arab world in order to construct a typological theory about the conditions under which elections reinforce or undermine regime stability and then discusses the policy implications for democracy assistance programs. This project is grounded within the classic and contemporary …
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Peering Into The Future: Three Essays on the Nascent Phenomenon of Collaborative Consumption
… the emergent business models by developing a typological theory that explains how platforms can be configured for higher value creation. The second essay approaches our understanding of the phenomenon from a meso level analysis to examine how peers interact with the social order of …
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How Rivalries End: Understanding Dynamics of the Rivalry Termination Process
… purpose of the dissertation is to develop a typological theory that explains contemporary processes of rivalry termination. I examine two key questions critically related to the rivalry termination phenomenon: what makes rivalries endure and how do rivalries end. A macro/historical-process …
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Upending the social innovator’s dilemma: Probing the social innovation process to explain the pathways that build evidence based models for social development
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01