In Greek main sentence stress is located on the rightmost constituent in ‘all new’ declaratives, but for all-new negatives, polar questions, and wh-questions it is located on the negative particle, main verb, and whword respectively. I discuss the implications of this pattern for the focus projection rules and for the accentedness of discourse new constituents.

in various legal systems, with adoption of the validity of exclusion clause as a rule, in the exceptional instances for the reason of social importance of the matter and contrary to the public policy, exclusion clause is void. thus, in the case of death; bodily injuries; deliberated breach of contract or legal duty ;gross negligence and deception imputed to party relying to exclusion clause, it...

in state-investor dispute, investor tends that umbrella clause transfers all contractual claims to treaty claims. by contracts, state follows narrow interpretation of this clause. up to ilc articles, establishing of responsibility of state for breach of contract requires tow preconditions. first state is merely responsible when state condoct has been of governmental nature and second is that br...

Q-particles are functional items that used to form alternative-related constructions. This paper investigates a hitherto understudied use of the Japanese Q-particle ka in which it occurs immediately below declarative complementizer and imposes constraints on doxastic state attitude holder. I show this is licensed only under limited range predicates, once licensed, encodes presupposition holder ...

This study aims to present an accessible model of some frequent nonfinite adverbial types occurring in English prose fiction. As its main syntactic argument, it recognizes that these adverbials are mostly elliptical in that there are some dependent-clause markers one can assume to be implicit when supplying those elements back into the clause complex. Some comments are provided at the end on th...

This paper explores pragmatic socialization by examining episodes of two to three - year-old children’s crying and adults’ responses this in preschools: Sweden Japan. Based on approximately 100 hours naturally occurring interactions, it focuses that emerged within peer conflict, analyzes ways teachers structured a triadic framework mediation. The results show how mediated using (1) question-res...