THE SYNTAX OF BI-COMPARATIVES IN MANDARIN CHINESE

THE SYNTAX OF BI-COMPARATIVES IN MANDARIN CHINESE

The study attempts to propose a Heel Balm syntactic account of bi-comparatives in Mandarin Chinese under the generative framework.Bi plays a role reminiscent of a prepositional complementizer projecting a self-completed clause (Hsing 2003, Chung 2006), a preverbal adjunct in the wake of Liu (1996).Following Abney (1987), Kennedy (1997), Kennedy & M

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REGULATING DOMESTIC WORK BY THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION

Housework or domestic work is the work performed in the interest for one or more households.Convention No.189/2011 and Recommendation of domestic workers no.201/2011 were adopted in the framework of the 100th session of the International Food Serving Pails/Buckets Labour Organization Conference.These regulations provided detailed and constructive o

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Considerations on the programmed functional life (one generation) of a green artificial reef in terms of the sustainability of the modified ecosystem

The installation of artificial reefs serves to enhance marine ecosystems, although it also modifies them.These changes do not have to be irreversible, since it is possible to treat the functional life of an artificial reef (AR) as a variable factor to be determined, with the objective of contributing to the sustainability of the ecosystem.The quest

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