Restrictive Clauses in International Arbitration Treaties

Restrictive Relative Clauses in Maltese

This paper provides a descriptive overview of restrictive relative clauses (henceforth RRCs) in Maltese, a construction which has received little attention to date and which is poorly described in existing grammars. We outline an LFG approach to the facts we describe bulding on existing analyses, and notably on Asudeh 2004/to appear, as far as the treatment of resumption in RRCs is concerned. F...

Protecting Franchisees from Abusive Arbitration Clauses

Valuation in International Arbitration

The value of a business or other asset depends on the expected future benefits from holding that asset and the uncertainty associated with those benefits. An expert valuer must often form an opinion on value based on their assessment of future benefits and uncertainty at a given date. This is a challenging task for many assets. It is often particularly challenging in the context of internationa...

Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses in Construction Based HPSG

This paper presents an account of English non-restrictive (‘appositive’) relative clauses (NRCs) in the framework of ‘construction based’ HPSG. Specifically, it shows how the account of restrictive relative clause constructions presented in Sag (1997) can be extended to provide an account of the syntax and semantics of NRCs and of the main differences between NRCs and restrictive relatives. The...

An LFG Approach to Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses in Maltese

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