A NON-EXCEPTIONAL APPROACH TO EXCEPTIONAL CASE-MARKING IN JAPANESE

The Proleptic Accusative as an exceptional Exceptional Case Marking construction

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the so-called proleptic accusative. This construction type is rare, but attested in a number of different languages. Here, we discuss data from Middle Dutch in particular, which enables us to shed new light on the matter. We show that the proleptic accusative is crucially different from complex cases of raising. Instead, we explore two novel and compet...

Exceptional Case Marking in the Xtag System

Competencies of Exceptional and Non-exceptional Software Engineers Competencies of Exceptional and Non-exceptional Software Engineers Submitted for Publication

The attributes of individual software engineers are perhaps the most important factors in determining the success of software development. Our goal is to identify the professional compe-tencies that are most essential. In particular, we seek to identify the attributes that diierentiate between exceptional and non-exceptional software engineers. Phase 1 of our research is a qualitative study des...

non-corrective approach to pronunciation

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...

Exceptional case studies.

CASE STUDIES ARE RARE in our journals and for good reason: without a sample, it is hard to assess the representativeness or uniqueness of an individual. The case studies that do get published are therefore so obviously exceptional that we cannot help but be interested in where nature or nurture has taken one of our species. The individual is usually an athlete, and the science amounts to identi...