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Constraints on noun phrase discontinuity in an Australian language: The role of prosody and information structure (2012)
Journal Article
Schultze-Berndt, E., & Simard, C. (2012). Constraints on noun phrase discontinuity in an Australian language: The role of prosody and information structure. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, 50(5), 1015-1058. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2012-0032

Discontinuous noun phrases have posed a long-standing challenge for syntactic analysis. While there exists increasing evidence that discontinuous NPs are associated with specific information structure constellations crosslinguistically, Australian la... Read More about Constraints on noun phrase discontinuity in an Australian language: The role of prosody and information structure.

Contact-induced grammatical change: towards an explicit account (2012)
Journal Article
Lucas, C. (2012). Contact-induced grammatical change: towards an explicit account. Diachronica. International Journal for Historical Linguistics, 29(3), 275-300. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.29.3.01luc

Language contact plays a key part among the factors leading to change in grammars, and yet the study of syntactic change, especially in the generative or innatist tradition, has tended to neglect the role of contact in this process. At the same time,... Read More about Contact-induced grammatical change: towards an explicit account.

Never again: the multiple grammaticalization of never as a marker of negation in English (2012)
Journal Article
Lucas, C., & Willis, D. (2012). Never again: the multiple grammaticalization of never as a marker of negation in English. English Language & Linguistics, 16(3), 459-485. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674312000196

In both standard and nonstandard varieties of English there are several contexts in which the word never functions as a sentential negator rather than as a negative temporal adverb. This article investigates the pragmatic and distributional differenc... Read More about Never again: the multiple grammaticalization of never as a marker of negation in English.

The Fiscal Stimulus of 2009-10: Trade Openness, Fiscal Space and Exchange Rate Adjustment (2012)
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Aizenman, J., & Jinjarak, Y. (2012). The Fiscal Stimulus of 2009-10: Trade Openness, Fiscal Space and Exchange Rate Adjustment. NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, 2011, 301-342. https://doi.org/10.1086/663626

This paper studies the cross-country variation of the fiscal stimulus and the exchange rate adjustment propagated by the global crisis of 2008-9, indentifying the role of economic structure in accounting for the heterogeneity of response. We find th... Read More about The Fiscal Stimulus of 2009-10: Trade Openness, Fiscal Space and Exchange Rate Adjustment.

Correlations, Causes and the Logic of Obscuration: Donor Shaping of Dominant Narratives in Indonesia's Irrigation Development (2012)
Journal Article
Suhardiman, D., & Mollinga, P. (2012). Correlations, Causes and the Logic of Obscuration: Donor Shaping of Dominant Narratives in Indonesia's Irrigation Development. The Journal of Development Studies, 48(7), 923-938. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2011.638052

This article analyses policy trends in Indonesian irrigation, particularly during the last five decades, from the perspective of dominant narratives, as authored, suggested and pushed by international donors. It argues that international donors' adhe... Read More about Correlations, Causes and the Logic of Obscuration: Donor Shaping of Dominant Narratives in Indonesia's Irrigation Development.

Water Supply or ‘Beautiful Latrines’? Microcredit for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. (2012)
Journal Article
Reis, N., & Mollinga, P. (2012). Water Supply or ‘Beautiful Latrines’? Microcredit for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Südostasienwissenschaften, 5(1), 10-29. https://doi.org/10.4232/10.ASEAS-5.1-2

Around half of the Mekong Delta’s rural population lacks year-round access to clean water. In combination with inadequate hygiene and poor sanitation this creates a high risk of diseases. Microcredit schemes are a popular element in addressing such p... Read More about Water Supply or ‘Beautiful Latrines’? Microcredit for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam..

Exchange rate misalignments: a comparison of China today against recent historical experiences of Japan, Germany, Singapore and Taiwan (2012)
Journal Article
He, X., Qin, D., & Liu, Y. (2012). Exchange rate misalignments: a comparison of China today against recent historical experiences of Japan, Germany, Singapore and Taiwan. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 10(3), 247-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2012.699703

The familiar claim of Chinese currency manipulation is generally asserted without reference to empirical evidence. To investigate the legitimacy of the claim, we ask if the undervalued misalignment found in the real effective exchange rate (REER) of... Read More about Exchange rate misalignments: a comparison of China today against recent historical experiences of Japan, Germany, Singapore and Taiwan.