This paper proposes an analysis of English, French, and German auxiliaries in the context of parallel grammar development. We present an LFG implementation of the analysis which factors out language particular morphological wellformedness conditions from linguistically generalizable contributions of auxiliaries. Auxiliaries are treated as feature carrying elements, rather than as raising verbs....

Concerns for reputation can promote cooperative behaviour. Individuals that behave cooperatively stand to benefit if they gain in influence, status or are more likely to be chosen as interaction partners by others. Most theoretical and empirical models of cooperation predict that image score will increase with cooperative contributions. Individuals are therefore expected to make higher contribu...

We explore the effects of the quantity of information on the tendency to contribute to crowdfunding campaigns. Using the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, we analyze the campaign descriptions and the performance of over 70,000 projects. We look empirically at the effect of information quantity (word count) on funding success (as measure by amount raised and number of backers). Within this empi...

Patriotic education is one of the most important components process youth personality formation. This allows for creation a national identity and contributes to formation consciousness among young people. In times war, its importance increases significantly. One goals patriotic people during war spiritual strength courage in them. War can become test every nation, which carries not only danger ...