In this lecture our concern is not with subtleties in the logical or semantic properties of conditional sentences‚ but with the tight connection between the meanings of English conditional sentences and features of their grammatical form. In a conditional sentence‚ there are two parts‚ (1) the antecedent = the protasis‚ and (2) the consequent = the apodosis. In general I will refer to them simply as "P" and "Q"‚ from the logician’s tradition of representing material implication as "P implies Q"
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Language and Mind – Spring 2013 – Second Practice Exam 1. Which of the following statements about parameters is FALSE? a. They specify the limits on possible differences between languages b. They do not belong to Universal Grammar # c. Their values must be “set” on the basis of experience 2. From the viewpoint of the principles-and-parameters theory‚ the process of language acquisition consists of: a. Setting the choice for each parameter that fits the language that is being acquired # b. Storing
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Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish—a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover‚ metaphor is typieully viewed as characteristic of language alone‚ a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason‚ most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found‚ on the contrary‚ that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life‚ not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual
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(CHIROMO BRANCH) BY KERUBO PHELLISTERS OMARI A RESEARCH PROPOSAL SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF DIPLOMA IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TO THE KENYA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT JULY 2013 DECLARATION Declaration by Student This research is my original work and has not been presented to any other examination body. No part of this research should be reproduced without my consent or that of the
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more frequently‚ be more frequently and strongly valued and seen as unique‚ often superior approaches to the creation of criminological and criminal justice knowledge. Qualitative research‚ one of the two primary approaches to the conduct of social science research‚ is a superior means for conducting meaningful research in criminology and criminal justice. The numerous advantages of qualitative methods provide a depth of understanding of crime‚ criminals and justice system operations and processing
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MPA 603: RESEARCH METHODS AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS RESEARCH PROPOSAL STUDENT NO: 201006692 LECTURER: DR. NORBERT MUSEKIWA DATE: 14 OCTOBER 2013 TOPIC: GENDER EQUALITY IN POILITICAL PRACTICE; A study of the evolution of female political practice in Botswana from 1966- 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3 CHAPTER 1 i. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM…………………………………………………………………………………………………….3 ii. RESEARCH QUESTIONS………………………………………………………………………………
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Time scale This research will take two months to be completed. Therefore the time schedule is mentioned using the following timeline. Week one: bookings of hotels for the focus groups Hiring of cars Week two: collection of data through projective techniques (sentence completion and word association) in Nairobi Week three: carrying out of focus groups in city center and Westlands Week four: carry out focus groups in South C and Embakasi Week five: carry out
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United Kingdom but also to the different economies across the world (Weick 2003). The SMEs are commonly described as institutions sitting on pletiful of knowledge that is entailed within the head of individuals. Moreover‚ according so several research studies‚ this knowledge is usually contained but scattered through a number of information systems that are entailed within the organization (Weick 2003). As such‚ these systems of informations are useful to any business as they host a number of
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Ethical considerations in the research of applied linguistics JIAN HE Monash University 1. Introduction In applied linguistics researches‚ there are unlikely considerable issues related to ethics or morality due to the harmlessness of the nature of language study. And in most cases‚ the participants are even able to get more or less some benefits from the research. For example‚ the participants may have an opportunity to gain certain knowledge of a target language via practicing
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INTRODUCTION: The earth has become a global village in this century by virtue of electronic media. People have the whole world at the palm of their hands. Radio‚ television‚ telephones and computers are now considered as comparatively old-aged things as we have laptops‚ palm tops‚ I-pads‚ tablets and Smartphone’s now through which we can access the information via Google and YouTube about that exact thing which we want to have. Besides information‚ infotainment and communication are widely used
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